The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Seven (103 page)

See also
Tibetan Buddhist art/iconography

van Itallie, Jean-Claude

View, American

Violent art, as black magic

Vipashyana experience

as art in everyday life

communication as

See also
Awareness practice; Shamatha-vipashyana

Vision

Buddhist, as “slow journey”

nonthought

Visual dharma

absolute

changing world by

as true perception

See also
Visual perception

“Visual Dharma” (article on filmmaking)

Visual Dharma
(catalogue)

Visual Dharma exhibition (Hayden Gallery, MIT)

lender to

Visual Dharma (film workshop)

Visual perception

as all five senses

beyond

cowardice and

emotions and

mind and

three levels of

as vanguard of senses

Visualization (practice)

thangkas and

“Wait and Think”

Wakefulness

art as

Great Eastern Sun and

highway of

three yanas and

Waldman, Anne

poem to

War, Sex and Dreams
(van Itallie)

Warrior Songs

Warriorship

art and

Shambhala path of

Watcher, art and

Water (element)

Water Festival
(play)

Weaponry

nonaggression and

West (direction)

guardian of

Western contemporary art(s)

freestyle approach

Great Eastern Sun and

nomadic tent culture and

secularization of

sacred view of

Wet
(magazine)

Whalen, Philip

Wheel of life

White color, of vajra family

Whitman, Walt

Williams, W. C.

Willing to be a fool

wisdom of

Wilson, Robert

Windhorse
(journal)

Window-shopping

Wire
(photograph)

Wisdom(s)

all-accomplishing wisdom

all-encompassing/pervading

coemergent

discriminating awareness

of equanimity

eyes as door of

five buddha family

foolishness and

mirrorlike

as “seeing”

transmuting neurosis into

Wittgenstein

Wolcott, Colin

Woman in the Dunes
(film)

Wood, Michael

Workability

World

art as way to change

attitude as key to

cheering up

Coca-Cola

death of your

of elegance

facing, without sunglasses

Madison Avenue

making friends with

as message

as mirror

mutual

peace in

poetry as expression of

pollution of

preconceptions of

relating with

reshaping

sacred

seeing, as it is

setting-sun

square

symbolism and

threefold

Worley, Lee

Wrathful yidam/deity

chanting/music for

mandala of

Yantra(s)

Yeats, W. B.

Yellow (color)

of enriching karma

of masculine/king principle

of ratna family

Yidams

buddha families and

as expressions of buddha nature

peaceful

semiwrathful

wrathful

See also
Sambhogakaya buddhas

Yün (richness/power)

Yung-lo (lineage of China)

“The Zen Teacher”

Zen (tradition)

arts

and tantra

in west

Zero
(magazine)

Zigi

See also
Dignity

Zim, Joshua

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