 | Sy Safransky - 1990 - 174 páginas
...Lao-tzu There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing...through spiritual techniques. — Chogyam Trungpa Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I... | |
 | Joy Manne - 1997 - 244 páginas
...naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing...strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism. — (back cover, 1973 edition)... | |
 | James William Coleman - 2002 - 276 páginas
...to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we an- developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion mav be referred to as spiritual mater in I ism - ' Tibetan teachers such... | |
 | R. Paul Olson - 2002 - 462 páginas
...appropriated by ego in its pursuit of "spiritual materialism" which. according to Chogyam Trungpa, is when we "deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening ouregocentricity through spiritual techniques."18 Consciousness. In the final stage of ego's development,... | |
 | John Rowan - 2005 - 332 páginas
...naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centred version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing...strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism. (Trungpa 1 973, p.3) But perhaps... | |
 | John Rowan - 2005 - 278 páginas
...naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centred version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing...strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism. (1973: 3) But perhaps the... | |
 | Sondra Ray - 2010 - 256 páginas
...the spiritual path properly. There is a whole book about this called Spiritual Materialism. It says, "We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing...strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques." I have seen people merely mouth spirituality, but they were not doing any real spiritual practices... | |
 | Nancy Mairs - 2007 - 172 páginas
...naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing...strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques."6 Sin and salvation are not about you as an individual but about you in relationship. To... | |
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centred version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing... 