Spiritual materialism is a term used by Chogyam Trungpa to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn that spiritualism into a ego building and confusion creating endeavor. He developed his book, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, from talks given while opening a meditation center in Boulder, CO, explaining Buddhism to North Americans. Chögyam Trungpa (1939 - April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher and artist. ...
However, it is quite often used to describe capitalist or commercial efforts such as "new age" bookstores and wealthy lecturers on spirituality. In contrast, see the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order's Right Livelihood Business. Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) is a Buddhist movement that was founded in the UK by Sangharakshita (formerly Dennis Lingwood) in 1967, followed by the Western Buddhist Order in 1968. ...
Further reading
Trungpa, Chogyam (1973). Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Spiritualmaterialism is a term used by Chögyam Trungpa to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn that spiritualism into an ego building and confusion creating endeavor.
SpiritualMaterialism is one of three errors in which a form of materialistic thinking interferes with insight or enlightenment.
Spiritualmaterialism is the failure to let go of ego clinging in the development of an understanding of spiritual and related areas.
In the philosophy of mind, one form of materialism, sometimes called central-state materialism, asserts that states of the mind are identical to states of the human brain.
In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions.
Materialism is sometimes allied with the methodological principle of reductionism, according to which the objects or phenomena individuated at one level of description, if they are genuine, must be explicable in terms of the objects or phenomena at some other level of description -- typically, a more general level than the reduced one.
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