Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

What if spiritual awakening isn’t about escaping your humanity, but becoming more present within it?

9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief exchange, Fleet Maull and a co‑speaker explore the notion of spiritual materialism and the idea of "auspicious coincidence" as coined by Trungpa Rinpoche. They discuss how seemingly serendipitous events—what one might label divine intervention—can be understood as meaningful alignments that resist easy categorisation. The dialogue highlights the tension between labeling such moments as supernatural versus seeing them as natural, auspicious convergences within the spiritual path.

On spiritual materialism, because we were talking about it. We were talking about— yeah, literally right here. Little serendipity there. Well, absolutely.
Or what Trungpa Rinpoche called— he called it auspicious coincidence. Exactly. Things coming together that you can't quite explain, but there seems to be something auspicious about them coming together.
And see, we're all talking about the same thing, and it drives me nuts when people go, oh well, it's this or it's that. Like, we're talking about whether we go— I would call it divine intervention. That's what I would call it, but it's absolutely, you know, auspicious coincidence.