Timely Rain

Newly selected poetry from previously published and unpublished works,Timely Rainis the definitive edition of poems and sacred songs of the renowned Tibetan meditation master.

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).

Introduction

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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

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