FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT, 108 POEMS

by Chogyam Trungpa
© 1983 by Chogyam Trungpa

 Born in Tibet, Again -- The Exile of the Twelfth Trungpa Tulku -- How Sakyong Mipham Usurped the Trungpa Throne, by Charles Carreon
Tantra Induced Delusional Syndrome, by Charles Carreon
The Dalai Lamas, Prisoners of the Potala Junta, by Charles Carreon

Table of Contents:

1. The Spontaneous Song of Entering Into the Blessings and Profound Samaya of the Only Father Guru
2. Stray Dog
3. The Song of the Wanderer
4. Listen, Listen
5. Whistling Grasses of the Esk Valley
6. Song
7. In the North of the Sky
8. Goodbye And Welcome
9. Meteoric Iron Mountain
10. The Zen Teacher
11. American Good Intentions
12. First Thought
13. Samsara and Nirvana
14. Gain and Loss
15. Cynical Letter
16. Dignified Rocky Mountain
17. Philosopher Fool
18. Does Love Kill Anybody?
19. A Letter to Marpa
20. Aphorisms
21. The Nameless Child
22. The Myth of Freedom
23. Haiku
24. The Red Flag Flies
25. The Sword of Hatred
26. Silk Road
27. Tibetan Pilgrim
28. Trans World Air
29. A Flower is Always Happy
30. True Tantra Groupie
31. Glorious Bhagavad-Ghetto
32. Tale of the Tiger
33. Naropa Institute, 1974
34. Pema Yumtso
35. To Britain's Health
36. Supplication to the Emperor
37. Literal Mathematics
38. One Way
39. Shasta Road
40. Palm Is
41. Burdensome
42. Tsondru Namkhai
43. Pema Semma
44. Dying Laughing
45. Kunga Garma
46. 1111 Pearl Street:  Victory Chatter
47. Wait and Think
48. Missing the Point
49. RMDC, Route 1, Livermore
50. To Gesar of Ling
51. Love's Fool
52. Report From Loveland
53. 1018 Spruce Street (And K.A.)
54. 1135 Tenth Street (And  G.M.)
55. 1111 Pearl Street (And D.S.)
56. 78 Fifth Avenue
57. The Alden (And Thomas Frederick)
58. Commentary on "The Alden (And Thomas Frederick)"
59. Aurora 7 (#2)
60. 1111 Pearl Street:  Off Beat
61. Aurora 7 (And Nyingje Sheltri)
62. Pan-American Dharmadhatu III
63. Tibetan Lyrics
64. Asleep and Awake
65. Great Eastern Daugherlet
66. Whycocomagh?
67. Lion's Roar
68. Timely Rain
69. Pan-Dharma Dollar
70. Meetings With Remarkable People
71. International Affairs:  The Cosmic Joke of 1977
72. One Sound
73. Dixville Notch:  Purrington House (And C.F.)
74. Afterthought
75. Don't Confuse This For Trick-Or-Treat
76. Eternal Guest
77. Swallowing the Sun and Moon Without Leaving the World in Darkness:  Good Lady of Wisdom
78. Saddharma Punsters
79. I Miss You So Much
80. The Doha of Confidence:  Sad Song of the Four Remembrances
81. Bon Voyage
82. Memorial in Verse
83. To My Son
84. For Anne Waldman
85. Putting Up With the Trans-Canada
86. Buddhism in the Canadian Rockies
87. Praise to the Lady of the Big Heart
88. Not Deceiving the Earth (And M.S.N.)
89. Drunken Elephant
90. Limp and Talk
91. How to Know No
92. International Affairs of 1979:  Uneventful But Energy-Consuming
93. To the Noble Sangha
94. Fishing Wisely
95. Miscellaneous Doha
96. Expose:  Acknowledging Accusations in the Name of Devotion
97. Mixed Grill Dharma Served With Burgundy of Ground Mahamudra 1980 Vintage:  The Elegant Feast of Timeless Accuracy
98. Growing Pains are Over
99. Coming of Age of My Son
100. You Might Be Tired of the Seat That You Deserve
101. When I Ride a Horse
102. Timely Innuendo
103. A Heart Lost and Discovered
104. Command
105. Golden Sun
106. As Sky Larks Hunt For Their Prey
107. Seasons' Greetings
108. The Meek:  Powerfully Nonchalant  and Dangerously Self-Satisfying

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