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FIRST THOUGHT
BEST THOUGHT
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CHOGYAM TRUNGPA
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108 Poems
Edited by David I. Rome
Introduction by Allen Ginsberg
SHAMBHALA
Boulder & London 1983
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SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS INC.
1920 13th Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302
© 1983 by Chogyam Trungpa
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First Edition
All rights reserved.
Distributed in the United States by Random House
and in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd.
Distributed in the United Kingdom by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ,
London and Henley-on-Thames.
Printed in the United States of America.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Trungpa, Chogyam, 1939-
First thought, best thought.
1. Buddhist poetry, American. I. Title.
PS3570. R84FS 1983 811 '.54 83-42806
ISBN 0-87773-092-X (pbk.)
ISBN 0-394-73269-3 (Random House; pbk.)
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This book is dedicated to Milarepa, the
poet-yogi of the Kagyii lineage,
who has inspired me since my childhood.
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
XXII
1. The Spontaneous Song of Entering into the Blessings
and Profound Sa maya of the Only Father Guru 1
2. Stray Dog 3
3. The Song of the Wanderer 4
4. Listen, listen 5
5. Whistling grasses of the Esk Va/Jey 6
6. Song 8
7. In the north o[ the sky 9
8. Goodbye and W elcomc 11
9. Meteoric iron mountain 12
1 0. The Zen teacher 13
11 American Good Intentions 14
12. First Thought 17
13 Samsara and Nirvana 19
14 Gain and Loss 21
15. Cynical Letter 23
16. Dignified Rocky Mountain 24
17. Philosopher Fool 25
18. Does Jove ki/J anybody? 27
19. A Letter to Marpa 29
20. Aphorisms 31
21. The Nameless Child 33
22. The Myth of Freedom 35
23 Haiku 37
24. The red flag flies 38
25. The sword of hatred 39
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26. Silk Road 41
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28. Trans World Air 43
29. A flower is always happy 44
30. True Tantra Groupie 45
31. Glorious Bhagavad-Ghetto 47
32. Tail of the Tiger 48
33. Naropa Institute, 1974 49
34. Perna Yumtso 55
35. To Britain's Health 57
36. Supplication to the Emperor 60
37. Literal Mathematics 62
38. One way 64
39. Shasta Road 65
40. Palm is 66
41 . Burdensome 68
42. Tsondrii Namkha 69
43. Perna Semma 71
44. Dying Laughing 73
45. Kiinga Garma 75
46. 1111 Pearl Street: Victory Chatter 79
47. Wait and Think 81
48. Missing the Point 83
49. RMDC, Route 1, Livermore 85
50. To Gesar of Ling 87
51. Love's Fool 88
52. Report from Loveland 90
53. 1018 Spruce Street (and K.A.) 92
54. 1135 lOth Street (and G.M.) 95
55. 1111 Pearl Street (and D.S.) 97
56. 78 Fifth A venue 98
57. The Alden (and T homas Frederick) 101
58. Commentary on "The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)" 102
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