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The ego's habit of turning even spiritual practice to its own ends is what Chogyam Trungpa calls spiritual materialism, and it is the subject of these talks by the Tibetan meditation master. The text is a transcript of two series of lectures he gave in 1970 and 1971. Trungpa argues that the most common pitfall on the spiritual path is treating it as self-improvement, an effort to refine an ego that is by nature empty. His teaching points instead toward liberation through letting go of the self rather than polishing it. A later edition adds a foreword by his son and lineage holder, Sakyong Mipham.
A Steve Jobs reading list reports that he and his Reed College friend Daniel Kottke read it together during his freshman year, alongside Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
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Steve Jobs (Founder/Apple)
During his freshman year at Reed College, Jobs befriended Daniel Kottke, who went on to work at Apple, and together they devoured books such as Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind,” Chogyam Trungpa’s “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism” and Paramahansa Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi,” a book Jobs read and re-read many times during his life.
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