Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa 256 pp.
This book is a series of transcripts from talks given by the author in the early 1970s. I listened to the audiobook version which probably colored my less than stellar opinion of the book. The narration by Jim Gimian sounded a bit like a bored Sam Waterston. I am not Buddhist but have read quite a bit of Buddhist literature. Much of Trungpa's commentary was off-putting to me. The premise of the title, that spirituality should not be used for personal rather than spiritual gain makes perfect sense. However, his explanations of some other principals veered more toward a cultish mind control than "enlightenment." YMMV.
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