First Thought Best Thought

108 Poems

By: Chogyam Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 1 May 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Here is a unique contribution to the field of poetry: a new collection of works by America's foremost Buddhist meditation master, Chogyam Trungpa. These poems and songs -- most of which were written since his arrival in the United States in 1970 -- combine a background in classical Tibetan poetry with Trungpa's intuitive insight into the spirit of America, a spirit that is powerfully evoked in his use of colloquial metaphor and contemporary imagery.

Most of the poems were originally written in English -- clearly the result of the author's own perceptions of new forms and media offered to him by a different culture. Each poem has its own insight and power, which come from a skillful blend of traditional Asian subtlety and precision combined with a thoroughly modern vernacular. Several of the author's calligraphies accompany the collection.

Chogyam Trungpa -- meditation master, scholar, and artist -- is the founder and president of Naropa Institute, including the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics, and the author of Cutting through Spiritual Materialism, The Myth of Freedom, and Meditation in Action.

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Introduction	p. xi
Preface	p. xix
Editor's preface	p. xxii
The Spontaneous Song of Entering into the Blessings and Profound Samaya of the Only Father Guru	p. 1
Stray Dog	p. 3
The Song of the Wanderer	p. 4
Listen, listen	p. 5
Whistling grasses of the Esk Valley	p. 6
Song	p. 8
In the north of the sky	p. 9
Goodbye and Welcome	p. 11
Meteoric iron mountain	p. 12
The Zen teacher	p. 13
American Good Intentions	p. 14
First Thought	p. 17
Samsara and Nirvana	p. 19
Gain and Loss	p. 21
Cynical Letter	p. 23
Dignified Rocky Mountain	p. 24
Philosopher Fool	p. 25
Does love kill anybody?	p. 27
A Letter to Marpa	p. 29
Aphorisms	p. 31
The Nameless Child	p. 33
The Myth of Freedom	p. 35
Haiku	p. 37
The red flag flies	p. 38
The sword of hatred	p. 39
Silk Road	p. 41
Tibetan Pilgrim	p. 42
Trans World Air	p. 43
A flower is always happy	p. 44
True Tantra Groupie	p. 45
Glorious Bhagavad-Ghetto	p. 47
Tail of the Tiger	p. 48
Naropa Institute, 1974	p. 49
Pema Yumtso	p. 55
To Britain's Health	p. 57
Supplication to the Emperor	p. 60
Literal Mathematics	p. 62
One way	p. 64
Shasta Road	p. 65
Palm is	p. 66
Burdensome	p. 68
Tsondru Namkha	p. 69
Pema Semma	p. 71
Dying Laughing	p. 73
Kunga Garma	p. 75
1111 Pearl Street: Victory Chatter	p. 79
Wait and Think	p. 81
Missing the Point	p. 83
RMDC, Route 1, Livermore	p. 85
To Gesar of Ling	p. 87
Love's Fool	p. 88
Report from Loveland	p. 90
1018 Spruce Street (and K.A.)	p. 92
1135 10th Street (and G.M.)	p. 95
1111 Pearl Street (and D.S.)	p. 97
78 Fifth Avenue	p. 98
The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)	p. 101
Commentary on "The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)"	p. 102
Aurora 7 (#2)	p. 106
1111 Pearl Street: Off Beat	p. 108
Aurora 7 (and Nyingje Sheltri)	p. 109
Pan-American Dharmadhatu III	p. 112
Tibetan Lyrics	p. 114
Asleep and Awake	p. 115
Great Eastern Daughterlet	p. 116
Whycocomagh?	p. 117
Lion's Roar	p. 119
Timely Rain	p. 120
Pan-Dharmadollar	p. 121
Meetings with Remarkable People	p. 124
International Affairs: The Cosmic Joke of 1977	p. 126
One sound	p. 130
Dixville Notch: Purrington House (and C.F.)	p. 131
Afterthought	p. 135
Don't Confuse This for Trick-or-Treat	p. 136
Eternal Guest	p. 140
Swallowing the Sun and Moon without Leaving the World in Darkness: Good Lady of Wisdom	p. 141
Saddharma Punsters	p. 144
I Miss You So Much	p. 147
The Doha of Confidence: Sad Song of the Four Remembrances	p. 149
Bon Voyage	p. 151
Memorial in Verse	p. 152
To My Son	p. 155
For Anne Waldman	p. 156
Putting Up with the Trans-Canada	p. 157
Buddhism in the Canadian Rockies	p. 158
Praise to the Lady of the Big Heart	p. 161
Not Deceiving the Earth (and M.S.N.)	p. 162
Drunken elephant	p. 164
Limp and Talk	p. 165
How to Know No	p. 167
International Affairs of 1979: Uneventful but Energy-Consuming	p. 169
To the Noble Sangha	p. 172
Fishing Wisely	p. 173
Miscellaneous Doha	p. 174
Expose: Acknowledging Accusations in the Name of Devotion	p. 175
Mixed Grill Dharma Served with Burgundy of Ground Mahamudra 1980 Vintage: The Elegant Feast of Timeless Accuracy	p. 178
Growing Pains Are Over	p. 181
Coming of Age of My Son	p. 182
You Might Be Tired of the Seat That You Deserve	p. 185
When I ride a horse	p. 187
Timely Innuendo	p. 188
A Heart Lost and Discovered	p. 189
Command	p. 190
Golden Sun	p. 191
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