About this title: Based on lectures given by Chogyam Trungpa in 1970 and 1971, this is a fascinating discourse about the potential pitfalls that mental confusion can create in the quest for spiritual enlightenment and self-discovery. He writes about how, in the process of learning to focus the mind in an effort to achieve spiritual enlightenment, the voice of the ego constantly seeks reassurance, comfort, and distraction. Despite even sincere efforts to become a better person, the struggle itself can have the opposite effect, as the ego rationalizes or distorts the process for its own personal sense of comfort ...
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Description: Acceptable. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good reading copy****Book shows moderate to heavy wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; several tears; moderate edge wear/ corners creased and frayed/ several tears on bottom of spine hinge/ bottom corner of rear cover and last 20 pages crumpled, several small tears and chips-text not affected/ several pages and page tips creased. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781570629570ISBN:1570629579
Description: Good. 124-W Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781570629570ISBN:1570629579
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Front cover curls a little. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Book Trade paperback in good to very good condition, excepting some slight shelf and read wear. Spine uncracked and pages clean. Wear to edges and corner covers. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781570629570ISBN:1570629579
Description: Near Fine. 1570629579. Remainder mark on top edge. Slight shelf wear to covers; interior clean tight and unmarked.; 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.8 Inches; 256 pages. read more
Description: Very Good. B0027LKPGY **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Description: Fair. 0877730504 Early edition, copyrighted 1973, same ISBN, 250 pages, paperback, Shambhala Publications, Inc. Front cover has tear at bottom of spine where the front cover meets the spine for about 2 inches, top of spine shows wear as well. some bleaching to yellow of the orange cover along spine, a penciled note on inside of front cover, a rubber stamp for price in upper right of first page. Some minor wrinkling and wear on back cover. A well thumbed copy of a spiritual classic by Chogyam ... read more
Description: Brand New. Paperback. In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement-the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, " he said, "even ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
Date Published: 2002-11-01
ISBN-13:9781570629570ISBN:1570629579
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781570629570. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781570629570ISBN:1570629579
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
Date Published: 2008-10-14
ISBN-13:9781590306390ISBN:1590306392
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781590306390. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Date Published: 1987-06-12
ISBN-13:9780877730507ISBN:0877730504
Description: Very Good. 1973 paperback, no marks noted in or on book, All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Description: Fair. B001U83RYC Binding square and tight, no spine creasing. Pages clean and unmarked. the big problem is that the front cover has been exposed to enough moisture to cause the front end paper to be stuck to the inside front cover. The color of the spine and much of the front cover and a strip of the back cover are considerably faded. The main damage to this book is cosmetic. The pages themselves are pristine. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ships Immediately from CA. Free delivery confirmation and ... read more
"I'm attracted to Buddhism and to Chogyam Trungpa, and I wasn't disappointed by this book. It is a classic of Buddhist thought, originating in the Kagyu lineage."
"the idea is not particiularly new. for those who are interested in whatsoever spiritualism is, it is easy to criticize current materialistic trends. but it's challanging to be truely and sincerely critical to oneself, as there's always a kind of blindness within us that prevents us from digging deeper into self."
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