Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism PB_Gift_Guide In order to gain acceptance

In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness

if the conditions are exactly right

Bonnie Raitt

we have to learn to become the person we hoped to be…

"—The Observer

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism PB_Gift_Guide In order to gain acceptanceThis modern spiritual classic highlights a trick we play on ourselves and offers a brighter reality: liberation by letting go of the self rather than working to improve it The Tibetan meditation master Chgyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use," he says, "even spirituality." The