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Thread: difference between ‘outside’ and ‘meta’: Recently I’m noticing systems shopping conflated with being meta to systems. This is how I see the difference: ‘Systems shopping’ is my term for picking and choosing, mixing and matching, from different systems. 1/11

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche coined the term ‘spiritual materialism’ for shopping around spiritual systems, pulling out the bits that appeal, adopting different parts from different systems into one’s repertoire; a limited approach in some ways, but useful and serves a function. 2/11

Your definition of spiritual materialism doesn’t seem quite right, but I like what your construct of shopping and meta.

Ah, just saw this. How would you describe spiritual materialism?

I use Trungpa’s definition.

Collecting was the aspect I was emphasizing, iirc I think that’s a key part of spiritual materialism as identity/ego building, but ymmv.

I’ve never really thought of him talking about collecting so much as mistaking material objects and symbolism for actual spirituality.