The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Seven

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T
HE
C
OLLECTED
W
ORKS OF
C
HÖGYAM
T
RUNGPA

 

VOLUME ONE
Born in Tibet • Meditation in Action • Mudra
• Selected Writings
VOLUME TWO
Glimpses of Abhidharma • Glimpses of Mahayana • Glimpses of Shunyata • The Path Is the Goal • Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
• Selected Writings
VOLUME THREE
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism • The Heart of the Buddha • The Myth of Freedom
• Selected Writings
VOLUME FOUR
The Dawn of Tantra • Journey without Goal • The Lion’s Roar
• An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa
VOLUME FIVE
Crazy Wisdom • Illusion’s Game • The Life of Marpa the Translator
(Excerpts) •
The Rain of Wisdom
(Excerpts) •
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
(Excerpts) • Selected Writings
VOLUME SIX
Glimpses of Space • Orderly Chaos • Secret Beyond Thought • The Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Commentary •
Transcending Madness
• Selected Writings
VOLUME SEVEN
The Art of Calligraphy
(Excerpts) •
Dharma Art

Visual Dharma
(Excerpts) • Selected Poems • Selected Writings
VOLUME EIGHT
Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala • Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
• Selected Writings

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF

CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA

VOLUME SEVEN

 

The Art of Calligraphy
(Excerpts)
Dharma Art
Visual Dharma
(Excerpts)
Selected Poems
Selected Writings

EDITED BY

Carolyn Rose Gimian

SHAMBHALA • BOSTON & LONDON • 2010

Shambhala Publications, Inc.

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300 Massachusetts Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02115

www.shambhala.com

© 2004 by Diana J. Mukpo

Introduction to Volume Seven © 2004 by Carolyn R. Gimian

Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa creating a flower arrangement for an exhibition, Boulder, Colorado, ca. 1980.

Photograph by Robert Del Tredici. Used by permission.

See the Sources section at the back of this book for a continuation of the copyright page.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939–

[Works. 2003]

The collected works of Chögyam Trungpa / edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian; forewords by Diana J. Mukpo and Samuel Bercholz.—1st ed.

p.   cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2156-9

ISBN 1-59030-025-4 (v.1)

ISBN 1-59030-026-2 (v.2)

ISBN 1-59030-027-0 (v.3)

ISBN 1-59030-028-9 (v.4)

ISBN 1-59030-029-7 (v.5)

ISBN 1-59030-030-0 (v.6)

ISBN 1-59030-031-9 (v.7)

ISBN 1-59030-032-7 (v.8)

1. Spiritual life—Buddhism.   2. Buddhism—Doctrines.   I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose.   II. Title.

BQ4302.T7823     2003

294.3′420423—dc22               2003058963

CONTENTS

 

Introduction to Volume Seven

 

D
HARMA
A
RT

 

Acknowledgments

 

Editor’s Introduction

 

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

Sources

 

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

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