First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungpa

The impulse to believe the absurd when presented with the unknowable is called religion. Whether this is wise or unwise is the domain of doctrine. Once you understand someone's doctrine, you understand their rationale for believing the absurd. At that point, it may no longer seem absurd. You can get to both sides of this conondrum from here.

Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

Postby admin » Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:47 am

TRUE TANTRA GROUPIE

Sunset or sunrise in the Tantra Group--
The wicked people with pocket money
Are supposed to be truly dangerous.

Students of Vajrayana watching the glow of fire
Toasting their emotions
Might happen to eat them
With a thin spread of butter flavored with marmalade.

It is good that the fire is burning
That the water is flowing,
Stars in the galaxies are in their appropriate places.
The universe is loveable
To the extent that simultaneous orgasm can be shared.

Fire is red
Sky is blue
Grass is green--
things as they are.
But they speak an unspeakable utterance:
That they have the right to complain.

Fire is red
Sky is blue
Grass is green
Fire is red
Sky is blue
Grass is green
Fire is red
Sky is blue
Grass is green

Who said that ...

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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GLORIOUS BHAGAVAD-GHETTO

Hawk is silly
Because of its hawkishness,
Good is bad
Because of its goodishness.
Bad is so good
Because of its bluntness.
Raven vulture lizard
A monk a nun
A dog a cat
Venerable mosquito
Sick frog
Healthy guinea pig
Giant grain of sand--
They all speak a mutual language:
Who we are
What we are
Maybe we are
The neighbors might know about us.
Do the neighbors know the Tantra?
What is Tantra?
Is black black?

Thanks be to the wise or the stupid,
Mrs. Jones
Mr. McLean.
Glory be to the rain
That brought down
Concentrated pollution
On the roof of my car
In the parking lot.

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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TAIL OF THE TIGER

Darkness is good
With an incense stick burning,
Herbert speaks good language
Which becomes onomatopoeic,
Jews Jew
Because of Gentiles,
Thunder is good
It knows the mountains,
Food is bad for you
It makes you eat more,
Magic is contagious
Because there is none.
What is magic?
What isn't magic?
Is food shelter?
Or is shelter food?
The magicians are magpies,
A tiger is a poodle,
Having a tail is equal to a stiff upper lip,
Giant is dwarf--
Have a baby sitter!
Don't tread on the tail of a flea.

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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NAROPA INSTITUTE, 1974

Long live the longest one
But we should be kind to the short ones
Flea on the Empire State Building
Mosquito in the Taj Mahal
Eiffel Tower like a growth on your thumb
The world is good!
But bad in many ways
On the other hand
Bad and good makes the world feel
Not so good
But at the same time
It makes it feel good
It's a checkerboard:
Good is bad
Bad is good
Goodbad! is good
Goodbad! is bad
Badgoodgood
Goodbadbad
Goodie is baddie
In the realm of
Goodgoodgood
At the same time
Badbadbad
If we take a cross-section
Badgood badgood
On the other hand
Goodbad goodbad
He is goodly bad
Therefore she could not be
She is badly good
Therefore he could not be
Mutually they are
Goodly bad badly good
Therefore they could be
Because of it
Bad is good
Bad is good
Bad is good
We are at a loss
Lost is good
Lost isn't good
Facts are figures
Figures are facts
Figurefacts figurefacts figurefacts
Facts are no figures
Figures no facts
John is not Mary
Mary is not John
John Mary John Mary John Mary
Oliver
Olivia
Teeth and tongue
Teeth can't be cooked
But tongue is delicious for a meal
Facts are not figures
But figures are facts
Computer is good
Because
Sun!
Moon!
Star!
Greenery!
Blue flower!
Honey!
Woodpecker!
Railroad!
Lotus pond Marvin Casper
Smile of dark-haired girl
Seduction of the blond
Blond moth
Pekingese pony
Graceful ant
Cockroaches in a New York apartment
Eiffel Tower
Empire State Building
Guards with handsome uniforms
Policeman blowing whistle musically
Ginsberg being pedantic
Joshua Zim in New Mexico
New New New
New New New
New England
New Mexico
Blacks don't get their privilege
Flying helicopter with cameramen
Honeymoon
Inspired glamorous youth
Wants to be made love to
Silk scarf
Nouveau riche
Good to be with
Jews or Gentiles
Are no longer the question
In the realm of youthful exuberance
Skiing in the mountains
Metaphysical debate
Glorious to be the dogshit in Brooklyn
Glorious to be in the glaciers of the Grand Tetons
Halvah is good to eat
Cheesecake is questionable
May they both be blessings on us
Facts and figures no longer important
January could afford to affront
February it's subordinate
March felt youthful
April is adolescent
Grass is green
Fire is ember
Turquoise is black
From the view of coral
World is good
Good is world
Bad is goodworld
Goodworld is bad
Let us bring
Venus
Glorious to be Ram Dass
When he sweats
With beads of perspiration in his hair.

Duncan Campbell
The moderator
Hot and cold
In moderation
Bewildered Baker
Overcooked Green
Open Secret oven
Glory be to them
While Chogyie and Dassie
Are cooking
Sweetsour curry rockBoulder
Glorious to be
Glorious to be
Glorious to be
Mining town
RockBoulder
Boulderrock
Good living in bhakti
So-called.
GOOD
BAD
BAD
GOOD
Bhakti
Shopper
Realism
Dilettante
Grasshopper
Devoted moth
Confused ant
Spiritual materialism
Syringe
Good grass
Fancy bread
Bhakti provocation
In the name of goodness
Complementary speech
In the name of Trungpa
Everything is good
Ram Dass is cult
In spite of the Baba
Square is round
Rock is water
Fire is tree
Impregnation is abortion
So unpleasant
Embarrassment of Ram Dass
Cutting through its love-and-lighty
Failure is complement
The world of goodness is full of fleas
Glorious to be the inspired true-believer
Hurricane!
Storm!
Thunderstorm!
Redandwhite redandwhite
RedAndWhite
REDANDWHITE
True blue of dharmakaya
Is the only solution
Devoid of Jacob Needleman

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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PEMA YUMTSO

Gayle Beth
She is not certain
Seagulls
Moth
Honeymooners
Ring of her dead lover
Bees
Wasp
Wise owl
Clark Kent
Yeshiva
Black and white
Flamingos asleep on one leg
Giraffes are not Jews
Zebra likes bucking people
Glory be to Gayle
She's such a nice girl
Only if ...
She's such a nice girl
Only if ...
Only if ...
If ...
If ...
She is truly what she claims
She is Mona Lisa
She isn't Mona Lisa
Is she?
Or isn't she?
If she sleeps on one leg like flamingo
She is
But then she's not giraffe
Zebra
Is she a lioness
A tigress?
Maybe she is
She seems to be palm tree
She is white raven
She is musician
Dancing on the strings of piano
She's a little gypsy girl
She's cute
She's powerful
She's the lily of the hidden valley
She's not secular
She's sacred
She's holy
She's immaculate
She's complainatory
She is her
She is blue
She's white
She's turquoise lake
She is what she is
She's angry woman
She deserves what she is
Oh! she
Oh! she
She is Oh! she
Oh! she
Truth of the matter is
Just between us
She is tiger lily.

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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TO BRITAIN'S HEALTH

Such sharpness
Such honesty
The world is made of truth and lie
Truth of deception
Who buys that?
Jigsaw puzzle is true
Cyclops doesn't see double-vision
World's sportsman
World's prettiest girl
Demanded by mankind of the world
Proud woman
Sharpened pencil
Peacock with dots
Hallucinogenic drugs
Golden Syrup
In the name of Her Majesty the Queen
Hollow cock
Rotten wood
Cathy McCullough at the campfire
I told you
You told me
I'm sorry I forgot
I wasn't paid for this
Humorous Jack Elias
Bob Halpern as jewel merchant
Tile of Mexico
Let us have a bullfight
Sword of prajna
Impeachment of the Buddha
Holy Dalai Lama
Quarterhorse
Mustang
Stallion
Honorable discharge
English saddle
Smell of good leather
Glory be to our Queen
Long live the Elizabeth the Second
My Queen
Towards whom I feel integrity
Long live the Queen
Stiff upper lips
Pleasing British leather saddle
Equitation
Diana Judith
Union Jack
Red white and blue
Glory be to Elizabeth the Second
The rushes of Scotland
Swamps of Northumberland
The dimples of the Lake District
Plains of Salisbury
White chalky shores of Dover and Devonshire--
There is something nice about our Kingdom
Glory be to Diana and her English nose
Foggy London
Confident boys
Union Jack flying
In the midst of traffic in Piccadilly
Still majestically bearing the symbol of St. George
And St. Andrew
St. Patrick
My second home
Glory be to the thistles, clover
And the royal nose
Cockney accent
The Liverpool accent
The Midlander's
The Welsh, Scottish
And the Irish
Such rich people
Enjoying the bank holiday at Blackpool--
May the Kingdom last long
May the Kingdom last long free from the Tory
The Labor
The Liberal
May Her Majesty ride on a powerful white horse
With her banner fluttering in the winds of English country power.

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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SUPPLICATION TO THE EMPEROR

You are a rock
You are our foundation
You can cause a landslide
You can shake the earth
You are all the elements
You burn
You quench thirst
You sustain
You are the creator of turbulent fresh air
You sit like a mountain
The world is your throne
The world is helpless
You and your Kagyu lineage
Are the only living monarchs on earth.

Inter-cosmopolitan politics
International Ballistic Missile
Internal Revenue Service for rich hippie spiritual shoppers--
In the Age of Darkness
Your multiple all-pervasive macro-precision dharma-insight is so
penetrating:
Amidst a flock of black sheep
A flock of black pigeons
A depressed herd of buffaloes
Shaggy polar bears munching vegetables
Black cloud hovering above polluted cities
Aluminum-rim black leather executive chairs
Nouveau-riche articulation getting into the silk and satin world
Ex-Catholics reentering because of the promise of the Mother Church
Sleepy Jews learning to play the Kabbalah puzzle
Hocus-pocus Hindus trying their best in the Armenian evangelical
jinglebell
Tea parties' old den of Theosophy filled with chatter of the new
Messiah
Oakwood-paneled meeting halls with deadly pamphlets advertising
"That" or "This" trip in their elegant language:
This dungeon of dark tunnels where millions are trapped
Comparing their entrapments as better than others.

O Dawn of Karmapa
Are you Avalokiteshvara?
If
Are
Are you
You are
So you
You must be
Come forth
The Dawn of Karmapa
The only living monarch on earth
Be kind to us
We wait for your lion's roar
Tiger's claw
Gentle smile
Ostentatious display of your presence.

You did
You will do
You are doing it
So do it
O Dawn of Karmapa.

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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LITERAL MATHEMATICS

Zero is nothing
One is bold
Two is loneliness
Three is the other
Four is the peacemaker
Five is a group
Six is the parliament
Seven is a happy conclusion
Eight is security
Nine is trooping
Ten is convenient
Eleven is agitation
Twelve is helpless
Thirteen is a threat
Fourteen is a land speculator
Fifteen is a market researcher
Sixteen is the desperate
Seventeen is a troubleshooter for the ecologist
Eighteen is a silk merchant
Nineteen is a junior executive
Twenty is sportsmanship
Twenty-one is a Jewish banker--
But zero is one in the realm of oneness
Oneness is one in the realm of zeroness
Two is sixteen in the realm of eighteen
Twenty-one is glorious after the teething of the three
Sixteen is five nobody knows who they are
Seven is ten in the realm of coins
Nine is nineteen because of sharp corners
Three is eight you have chosen a bad tailor

Four is fourteen the grammar school is inadequate
Twenty is eighteen need for equitation lesson
Eleven is fifteen bad Christmas gift
Twelve is seventeen a carrot is not a radish
Thirteen is thirteen odd man out
Glory be to the six, good table manners.
Jam jar
Honey pot
Lemon sherbet
Who's kidding whom?
Kids are kite
Kites fly
Kids stumble
In the glorious desert mole-hole.
Life as it was.
Could life be?
I mean that way?
Do you really?
But zero is what?
Well ... well, zero is.
Glory be to those who have missed aeroplane connections--
Fly United.

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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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ONE WAY

One Way
Way one
Flea bite
Lion's roar
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Re: First Thought Best Thought, 108 Poems, by Chogyam Trungp

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SHASTA ROAD

Image

Rationalists have found that there is a bird in the sky.
Experimentalists say maybe this bird is a kite.
Donkeys have their way to be stubborn.
People from a Cossack town have their particular food.
Butterflies and bats have differences in their language.
Practitioners are fascinated by their practice,
Practitioners painfully experiencing their practice debating the reality
of Timbuktu.
Million stones and trillions space are one in the area of mutual pain.
Gooseberry and chicken feet are one in the realm of totality.
Jungle kid and ocean crocodile are rebellious in the realm of mutual
interest.
Highfaluted holiness depressed politician burning hot pliers
Are in the same realm as barking Pekingese at Madame Chang's
apartment.
Max King and Patricia King and Martha Washington who knows,
Thistles poison oak grasshoppers made into juice,
Bushmen's Ph.D. Siamese cat eating frog eyes.
Prostrations are premature to give to the adolescent student.
Pinetree Doves Coralrock Porcupine Pippi Porky Poodle Pissmen
are in the realm of polarities.
Glory be to tonight's poet.
Who's who? What's what? Nobody knows.
But everybody knows,
Including our kind neighbor who would never harm a flea.
But willing to cut your throat.

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