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Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume Seven

D HARMA A RT
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Sources

Dharma Art—Genuine Art

Discovering Elegance

Great Eastern Sun

Basic Goodness

Meditation

Art in Everyday Life

Ordinary Truth

Empty Gap of Mind

Coloring Our World

New Sight

The Process of Perception

Being and Projecting

Lost Horizons

Giving

Self-Existing Humor

Outrageousness

Wise Fool

Five Styles of Creative Expression

Nobody’s World

Choiceless Magic

One Stroke

The Activity of Nonaggression

State of Mind

Heaven, Earth, and Man

Endless Richness

Back to Square One

Art Begins at Home

T HE A RT OF C ALLIGRAPHY : J OINING H EAVEN AND E ARTH
Introduction by David I. Rome

Heaven, Earth, and Man

1. Dharma and Art

2. Creation

3. Perception

4. The Mandala of the Four Karmas

5. Discipline

6. Art and Society

Selected Calligraphies

Appendix: About the Seals
Sources
Selected Chronology
V ISUAL D HARMA : T HE B UDDHIST A RT OF T IBET
Introduction

Visual Dharma: The Buddhist Art of Tibet

Background and History
Elements of Iconography
Five Buddha Families
S ELECTED P OEMS

Full Moon No Clouds

The Spontaneous Song of Entering into the Blessings and Profound Samaya of the Only Father Guru

A Son of Buddha

Stray Dog

Garuda Is the Mighty Force

The Song of the Wanderer

May the Great Revolutionary Banner

The Wind of Karma

Poem

Listen, Listen

Three-Bladed Missile

Whistling Grasses of the Esk Valley

This Marriage

Song

In the North of the Sky

Good-bye and Welcome

Meteoric Iron Mountain

The Zen Teacher

American Good Intentions

First Thought

Samsara and Nirvana

Gain and Loss

Cynical Letter

Dignified Rocky Mountain

Charnel Ground

Philosopher Fool

Does Love Kill Anybody?

Our Seduction

A Letter to Marpa

Aphorisms

The Nameless Child

The Myth of Freedom

Haiku

The Red Flag Flies

The Sword of Hatred

Silk Road

Tibetan Pilgrim

Trans World Air

A Flower Is Always Happy

True Tantra Groupie

Glorious Bhagavad-Ghetto

Tail of the Tiger

Naropa Institute, 1974

Pema Yumtso

To Britain’s Health

Lion Roars Sunset over Rockies’ East Slope

Supplication to the Emperor

Literal Mathematics

One Way

Shasta Road

Palm Is

Burdensome

Tsöndrü Namkha

Pema Semma

Dying Laughing

Künga Garma

1111 Pearl Street: Victory Chatter

Wait and Think

Missing the Point

RMDC, Route 1, Livermore

To Gesar of Ling

Love’s Fool

Report from Loveland

Testimonial

1018 Spruce Street (and K.A.)

1135 10th Street (and G.M.)

1111 Pearl Street (and D.S.)

78 Fifth Avenue

The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)

Commentary on “The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)”

Aurora 7 (#1)

Aurora 7 (#2)

1111 Pearl Street: Off Beat

Aurora 7 (and Nyingje Sheltri)

Shambhala Anthem

Pan-American Dharmadhatu III

So Bright and So Vulnerable

Glory Be to the Kasung

Tibetan Lyrics

Asleep and Awake

Conspicuous Gallantry

Great Eastern Daughterlet

Whycocomagh?

Lion’s Roar

Halifax

Latest Early Conclusion

Timely Rain

Pan-Dharmadollar

Meetings with Remarkable People

International Affairs: The Cosmic Joke of 1977

One Sound

Dixville Notch: Purrington House (and C.F.)

Afterthought

Anniversary

Don’t Confuse This for Trick-or-Treat

Eternal Guest

Swallowing the Sun and Moon without Leaving the World in Darkness: Good Lady of Wisdom

Saddharma Punsters

Falling in Love with a Pair of Handcuffs

I Miss You So Much

The Doha of Confidence: Sad Song of the Four Remembrances

Bon Voyage

Memorial in Verse

To My Son

For Anne Waldman

As Long as the Sky Is Blue

Putting Up with the Trans-Canada

Buddhism in the Canadian Rockies

Praise to the Lady of the Big Heart

Not Deceiving the Earth (and M.S.N.)

Maestoso Drala

Trooping the Color

Drunken Elephant

Limp and Talk

How to Know No

International Affairs of 1979: Uneventful but Energy-Consuming

To the Noble Sangha

Auspicious Coincidence: Wealth and Vision

Fishing Wisely

Good Morning within the Good Morning

Haiku 2

Miscellaneous Doha

Exposé: Acknowledging Accusations in the Name of Devotion

Mixed Grill Dharma Served with Burgundy of Ground Mahamudra 1980 Vintage: The Elegant Feast of Timeless Accuracy

Growing Pains Are Over

Coming of Age of My Son

Mantric Keltic Incantation

Merrier Than the Maritimes

La Conference du Soleil du Grand Est

Turning Point

You Might Be Tired of the Seat That You Deserve

When I Ride a Horse

Hunting the Setting-Sun Moon

Timely Innuendo

Why Reality Is So Real

Fearlessness and Joy Are Truly Yours

A Heart Lost and Discovered

Command

Golden Sun

As Skylarks Hunt for Their Prey

How to Be Old Shambhalians and Youthful Propagators of Shambhala

How Typical Student Poetry Should Be

Death or Life

Early Testimony: Sun Will Never Set

Warmth in the House

Don’t Go to the Dentist with Such Good Teeth

Natural Sanctuary without Shrine

Child’s Concept of Death

Battle Cry

Farewell to Boulder

Sanity Is Joyful

Shambhala Is True

Embryonic Thunderbolt

How to Govern with Wisdom

Seasons’ Greetings

Dance while Weeping

Four Season Haiku Tiger

The Meek: Powerfully Nonchalant and Dangerously Self-Satisfying

Swallowing the Moon as We Feel Free

Constantly Falling in Love

Never Flinching

Pure and Powerful as Peonies

Sound Cycles

Trishula
Sutra
Aham

Elocution Exercises

Instead of Americanism, Speak the English Language Properly!
Humor and Delight with the English Language
Playing with the English Language
S ELECTED W RITINGS

Preface to First Thought Best Thought

Poets’ Colloquium

Poetics

Tibetan Poetics

Visual Dharma: Film Workshop on the Tibetan Buddhist View of Aesthetics and Filmmaking

Prajna

Proclamation

Basic Sanity in Theater

Heaven, Earth, and Man

Perception and the Appreciation of Reality

Art of Simplicity: “Discovering Elegance”

Dharma Art Stresses Harmony and Elegance

Art and Education

Empowerment

Introduction to Disciples of the Buddha

A PPENDICES
Introduction to First Thought Best Thought by Allen Ginsberg
Editor’s Preface to First Thought Best Thought by David I. Rome
Editor’s Afterword to Timely Rain by David I. Rome
Sources
Acknowledgments
A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa
Books by Chögyam Trungpa
Resources
Index

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