The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Seven (94 page)

ALL BOOKS, ARTICLES, POEMS, SEMINARS, and art works are attributed to Chögyam Trungpa unless otherwise cited. Only poems referenced in the text are listed in this index; for all titles, please refer to the table of contents. Illustrations are indicated by italics and follow text entries. The Nālandā Translation Committee is cited as NTC.

Abhidharma teachings

art and

Abhisheka.
See
Empowerment

Absolute symbolism

three principles of

Aggression

arts and

competitiveness and

elegance vs.

expectations as

holding back as

humor as

inquisitiveness vs.

overcoming

as seed of crudeness

transmuting, to energy

See also
Nonaggression

All-accomplishing wisdom

All-encompassing wisdom

America Hurrah
(van Itallie)

American flag, symbolism of

American marketing system

American poets

Analogies:

anger, as heart of earth surfacing

astral travel, as flying TWA

basic goodness, as flower arrangement

calligraphy brush, as sword of nonaggression

decision-making process, as falling in love

dharma and art/form, as indistinguishable as cheese spread on bread

dharma art, as atomic bomb carried in your mind

five buddha families, as new dimension of perception

Great Eastern Sun, as fully developed buddha nature

harmony, as Japanese home and Jewish home put together

kindness plus discriminating awareness, as pair of new spectacles

nonaggression as realizing new angle of energy

non-reference-point experience as circulating . . . in outer space without rocket or space suit

perceiving things as they are, as stillness of bullfrog sitting in rain

pigeonholing experience, as being eaten up by ingrown toenail

poetry as remembering the “water holes” of the mind

real education, as yeast infection that grows on you

reality not fully experienced, as lost horizon

seeing things as they are, as state of mind, like Bombay Gin

spiritual journey, as dissolving question mark into full stop

square-one experience, as crosseyed owl made of gold

synchronizing mind/body, as good exposure of film in camera

threefold logic, as holding fan, then opening, and producing breeze by waving it

viewing film, as eye massage

vowels and consonants, as two

wings of bird of language

world as gigantic baby bottle with relative symbolism “nipple”

Anger

transmutation of

vajra

vajra (buddha family)

Anna Karenina

“Anne Blume” (Schwitters)

Anxiety

claustrophobia of

as obstacle

Apollinaire

Appel, Karl

Appreciation (sensory)

awareness practice as

importance of

Archery

See also Kyudo

Architecture

Argüelles, Jose

Arhat(s)

miracle of

Arrogance

enriching karma and

positive

yellow as absence, of

Art(s)

basic goodness as

bodhisattva action as

“captured”

contemporary Western

corrupt

culture and

definition of

environment as

exhibitionistic

five buddha family styles of

forms

fruition level of

heaven/earth/man and

ideal work of

importance of

as life vs. occupation

medieval European

monumental

organization as

as path of awakening

positive

power of

as reality

religious vs. secular

sacred

scientific approach to

setting sun

spirituality and

suggesting vs. feeding with

three kayas and

transformative

as truth

violent, as “black magic”

See also
Buddhist art; Dharma art

The Art of Calligraphy

Art cricitism (criteria)

“Art and Education” (article)

Art in everyday life

vipashyana experience as

“Art in Everyday Life” (seminar)

Artist(s)

audience and

as bodhisattva

communities

con-

contemporary

of five buddha families

inquisitiveness as seed syllable of

as life vs. occupation

magic of

meditation and

mind of

negativity and

obstacles for

perversion of

as rhinoceros

self-respect of

training

Artistic discipline

environment and

life as

synchronizing mind/body as

Artistic process/production

commissions and

confidence and

heaven/earth/man and

ideas and

Japanese “way” (
do
)

as living process

as manual process

meditation and

perception and

as prostitution

relaxation and

retreat practice and

teaching through

threefold logic and

See also
Creative process

Ashoka, Emperor

imperial colors of

Astor, Ruth

Astral travel

Ato Rinpoche

Attitude

of aggression

as key to world

poverty

of sacredness

toward art

Auden, W. H.

Audience/viewer

artist and

expectations of

conning of

filmmaking and

heaven/earth/man and

poetry and

positive manipulation of

raising mentality of

threefold logic and

Auditory level of perception

“Aurora 7 #1”

“Aurora 7 #2”

Authentic presence

Avalokiteshvara

wrathful form of

Awakened mind, deities as

Awareness (vipashyana) practice