Timely Rain

by Trungpa, Chogyam

• ISBN13: 9781570621741
• ISBN10: 1570621748
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-26
• Publisher: Shambhala Pubns

Summary

Newly selected poetry from previously published and unpublished works,Timely Rainis the definitive edition of poems and sacred songs of the renowned Tibetan meditation master.

Author Biography

Master of meditation, social visionary, author, artist, poet—Ch÷gyam Trungpa (1939–1987) founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist university in North America; the Shambhala Training program; and Vajradhatu, an international association of meditation centers (now known under the name Shambhala International).

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Allen Ginsberg
PART ONE THE SILENT SONG OF LONELINESS	3	(24)
Silk Road	3	(1)
Tibetan Pilgrim	4	(1)
The red flag flies above the Potala	5	(1)
Song of the Golden Elephant	6	(2)
from The Silent Song of Loneliness	8	(2)
Stray Dog	10	(1)
Completely intoxicated by you	11	(2)
Looking into the world	13	(2)
Red glaring from the West	15	(1)
Three-bladed missile	16	(2)
Whistling grasses of the Esk Valley	18	(2)
In the north of the sky	20	(3)
Goodbye and Welcome	23	(4)
PART TWO LETTER TO MARPA	27	(18)
Meteoric iron mountain	27	(2)
A Letter to Marpa	29	(2)
Supplication to the Emperor	31	(3)
RMDC, Route 1, Livermore	34	(1)
Timely Rain	35	(1)
Afterthought	36	(1)
Fishing Wisely	37	(1)
Expose: Acknowledging Accusations in the Name of Devotion	38	(3)
A Heart Lost and Discovered	41	(1)
As skylarks hunt for their prey	42	(3)
PART THREE SAMSARA AND NIRVANA	45	(22)
The Zen teacher	45	(1)
Samsara and Nirvana	46	(1)
Gain and Loss	47	(1)
Cynical Letter	48	(1)
Philosopher Fool	49	(2)
Aphorisms	51	(2)
The Nameless Child	53	(2)
Haiku	55	(1)
A flower is always happy	56	(1)
Glorious Bhagavad-Ghetto	57	(2)
Literal Mathematics	59	(3)
Burdensome	62	(1)
Tibetan Lyrics	63	(1)
When I ride a horse	64	(3)
PART FOUR IN THE LAND OF PROMISES	67	(36)
To Britain's Health	67	(4)
Palm is	71	(2)
In the land of promises	73	(2)
How small can you be?	75	(3)
Dying Laughing	78	(2)
Wait and Think	80	(2)
Missing the Point	82	(2)
1135 10th Street (and G.M.)	84	(2)
1111 Pearl Street (and D.S.)	86	(1)
The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)	87	(2)
Aurora 7 (#1)	89	(2)
Whycocomagh?	91	(2)
To My Son	93	(1)
Not Deceiving the Earth (and M.S.N.)	94	(2)
International Affairs of 1979: Uneventful but Energy-Consuming	96	(4)
Seasons' Greetings	100	(3)
PART FIVE LOVE'S FOOL	103	(36)
The Perfect Love Poem	103	(3)
Early Outward	106	(3)
Does love kill anybody?	109	(3)
Love's Fool	112	(2)
Report from Loveland	114	(3)
1018 Spruce Street (and K.A.)	117	(3)
78 Fifth Avenue	120	(3)
Off Beat	123	(2)
When a cold knife is planted in your heart	125	(4)
Dixville Notch	129	(5)
I Miss You So Much	134	(1)
Bon Voyage	135	(4)
PART SIX VICTORY CHATTER	139	(30)
Garuda Is the Mighty Force	139	(1)
The Wind of Karma	140	(1)
Victory Chatter	141	(3)
Aurora 7 (#2)	144	(2)
Memorial in Verse	146	(4)
Maestoso Drala	150	(3)
Trooping the Colour	153	(1)
Good Morning within the Good Morning	154	(2)
Haiku	156	(3)
Turning Point	159	(1)
Command	160	(1)
Golden Sun	161	(1)
How to be Old Shambhalians and Youthful Propagators of Shambhala	162	(2)
Child's Concept of Death	164	(1)
The Meek: Powerfully Nonchalant and Dangerously Self-Satisfying	165	(4)
PART SEVEN SACRED SONGS	169	(20)
Supplication	169	(6)
Four-armed Mahakala	175	(2)
Purifying and Invoking the Four Directions	177	(2)
Invoking the Rigden Father	179	(2)
Invoking the Mother Lineage	181	(1)
The Education of the Warrior	182	(1)
Meek	183	(1)
Inscrutable	184	(1)
Enriching Presence	185	(1)
Song of the Self-existing Four Elements	186	(3)
Afterword	189	(12)
Appendix	201	(8)
Index of First Lines	209