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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Chogyam Trungpa
Teaching, Ego, Benefits
Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa
Disappointment, Freedom, Ego

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Chogyam Trungpa
Ego, Use, Spirituality
Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Chogyam Trungpa
Ego, Unmasking, Strategy

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa
Mean, Cynical, Ego

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Chogyam Trungpa
Confused, Confusion, Ego
Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa
Views, Ego, Enlightenment
Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.192, Shambhala Publications

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism

Chogyam Trungpa
Spiritual, Thinking, Ego

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