Mudra: Early Songs and Poems by Chogyam Trungpa

Author:Chogyam Trungpa
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780877730514
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2001-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

but others call me “the nameless one.”

How can one escape imprisonment

and burst the chains of concept?

1969

In the wilds of the Deer Park in Sarnath

There are the monasteries and shrines, relics of Buddhism.

A stray dog finds a wounded deer lying in a shed

And licks it in an attempt to try and heal the wound,

But the interior damage is impossible to reach with this automatic act of the tongue.

Look! Look! There is a burning heart;

The flames like sunset or an eclipse of the sun,

The dark red of the end of an eclipse.

Some kind-hearted person runs to the nearest telephone

But there is no rescue, no doctor who can extinguish this fire without body,

Though it is courageous at least to try to hold on to the heart.

Yet it is deeply sad that he had to let it go this far.

What is compassion? What is love?

When the lover and the love become one in the simplicity of the present.

Still pain and pleasure lie in the midst of a bundle of steel wool

And light and dark live in the midst of lamentation.

Who helps—because the savior and the victim both need help.

The dog patiently tries to heal the wound of the deer of Sarnath.

The burning sun dries up not only the trees, plants, and streams, but a whole continent.

Who will make the rain?

Who will invoke the clouds?

Where is the formless form of compassion,

The compassion of Avalokiteshvara?

March 12, 1969

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