SPIRITUAL EGO - Lama Dawa's Commentary

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Commentary voice-over work: Lama Dawa Zangpo
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"Ego is constantly trying to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit. We can deceive ourselves into thinking that letting go is just another way of getting what we want."
-Chogyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a Tibetan master that came to America and taught Westerners early on and he had a way of pulling the rug out from under people. He was helping us to not fall into self-deception and his notion of spiritual materialism is a very important concept that points to the idea that. For some people, embracing a spiritual path can be another way of reinforcing ego. And in this quote, Trungpa Rinpoche is letting us know that deception, even spiritual deception, is still not the way to go on. We are trying to undeceive ourselves, not create a new layer of self-deception. So it's just a word to the wise, a little warning to people to be honest with oneself. Spirituality is to help us soften or let go of this idea of our self-importance, which we call ego and. We should not use spiritual teachings to reinforce or strengthen the ego. The true purpose of spiritual teachings, whether they're Buddhist or other traditions, is to open us up and let go of taking ourselves so seriously and thinking that we are somehow so important.

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