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Chögyam Trungpa remarked, “Writing is writing the mind,” thus the title. Ground, Path, and Fruition are common stages of Tibetan style dharma teaching, often condensed into slogans for mind-training traditioned in Eastern thought.


Here, Ground means the situation of mind: we’re all amateurs at reading our own minds, but that’s all we have to work with, mutability of consciousness, appearance of chaos, our own confusion, inconsistency, awareness, humors & mental information.

Path: How to use, order & select aspects of mind, how accept & work with ordinary mind? We can only write what we know & teach same, what tricks & techniques of focus are practicable?

Fruition: What to expect, what to aim for, what result?

Candor: to reveal ourselves to ourselves, reveal ourselves to others, resolve anxiety of confusion & relieve our own & others’ sufferings.

Two decades’ experiences teaching poetics at Naropa Institute, half decade at Brooklyn College, and occasional workshops at Zen Center & Shambhala/Dharmadhatu weekends have been boiled down to brief mottoes from many sources found useful to guide myself and others in the experience of “writing the mind.”

~ Allen Ginsberg, 2/19/94
MIND WRITING SLOGANS


“First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.” -William Blake



I. GROUND (Situation, or Primary Perception)

1. “First Thought, Best Thought” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

2. “Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

3. “The Mind must be loose.”-John Adams

4. “One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception.” -Charles Olson, Projective Verse

5. “My writing is a picture of the mind moving.” -Philip Whalen

6. Surprise Mind -Allen Ginsberg

7. “The old pond, a frog jumps in, Kerplunk!” -Basho

8. “Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

9. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large. I contain multitudes.)” -Walt Whitman

10. “…What quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature? …Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.”-John Keats

11. “Form is never more than an extension of content.” -Robert Creeley to Charles Olson

12. “Form follows function.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

13. Ordinary Mind includes eternal perceptions.-A.G.

14. “Nothing is better for being Eternal/ Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.” -Louis Zukofsky

15. Notice what you notice.-A.G.

16. Catch yourself thinking-A.G.

17. Observe what’s vivid.-A.G.

18. Vividness is self-selecting.-A.G.

19. “Spots of Time” -William Wordsworth

20. If we don’t show anyone we’re free to write anything -A.G.

21. “My mind is open to itself.” -Gelek Rinpoche

22. “Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound.” -Charles Reznikoff



II. PATH (Method or Recognition)

23. “No ideas but in things.” “…No ideas but in the Facts.” -William Carlos Williams

24. “Close to the nose.”-W.C.Williams

25. “Sight is where the eye hits.” -Louis Zukofsky

26. “Clamp the mind down on objects.”-W.C.Williams

27. “Direct treatment of the thing…” (or object.)” -E.Pound, 1912

28. “Presentation, not reference…” -Ezra Pound

29. “Give me a for instance.” -Vernacular

30. “Show not tell.”-Vernacular

31. “The natural object is always the adequate symbol.” -Ezra Pound

32. “Things are symbols of themselves.”-Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

33. “Labor well the minute particulars, take care of the little ones/ He who would do good for another must do it in minute particulars/ General Good is the plea of the Scoundrel Hypocrite and Flatterer/ For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars” -William Blake

34. “And being old she put a skin/On everything she said.” -W.B.Yeats

35. “Don’t think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.” -Jack Kerouac

36. “Details are the Life of Prose.” -Jack Kerouac

37. Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. -A.G.

38. “Economy of Words” -Ezra Pound

39. “Tailoring” -Gregory Corso

40. Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. -A.G.

41. Syntax condensed, sound is solid. -A.G.

42. Savor vowels, appreciate consonants.-A.G.

43. “Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”-Ezra Pound

44. “…awareness…of the tone leading of the vowels.” -Ezra Pound

45. “…an attempt to approximate classical quantitative meters…” -Ezra Pound

46. “Lower limit speech, upper limit song”-Louis Zukofsky

47. “Phanopoeia, Melopoeia, Logopoeia.” -Ezra Pound

48. “Sight, Sound & Intellect.” -Louis Zukofsky

49. “Only emotion objectified endures.” – Louis Zukofsky







III. FRUITION (Result or Appreciation)

50. Spiritus = Breathing = Inspiration = Unobstructed Breath

51. “Alone with the Alone” -Plotinus

52. Sunyata (Skt.) = Ku (Japanese) = Emptiness

53. “What’s the sound of one hand clapping?” -Zen Koan

54. “What’s the face you had before you were born?” -Zen Koan

55. Vipassana (Skt.) = Clear Seeing

56. “Stop the world” -Carlos Casteneda

57. “The purpose of art is to stop time.” -Bob Dylan

58. “The unspeakable visions of the individual.”-J.K.

59. “I’m going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.” -Chuang Tzu, (Tr. Burton Watson)

60. “Candor” -Whitman

61. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -Shakespeare

62. “Contact”-A Magazine, Nathaniel West & W.C. Williams, Eds.

63. “God Appears & God is Light/ To those poor Souls who dwell in Night/ But does a Human Form Display/ To those who Dwell in Realms of day.” -W. Blake

64. Subject is known by what she sees.-A.G.

65. Others can measure their visions by what we see.-A.G.

66. Candor ends paranoia.-A.G.

67. “Willingness to be Fool.”-Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

68. “day & night/you’re all right”-Gregory Corso

69. Tyger: “Humility is Beatness.” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G.

70. Lion: “Surprise Mind”-Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G.

71. Garuda: “Crazy Wisdom Outrageousness” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

72. Dragon: “Unborn Inscrutability” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

73. “To be men not destroyers” -Ezra Pound

74. “Speech synchronizes mind & body.” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

75. “The Emperor unites Heaven & Earth.” -Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

76. “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” -Shelley

77. “Make it new”-Ezra Pound

78. “When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake”-Plato

79. “Every third thought shall be my grave” -W. Shakespeare, The Tempest

80. “That in black ink my love may still shine bright” -W. Shakespeare, Sonnets

81. “Only emotion endures” -Ezra Pound

82. “Well while I’m here I’ll do the work-and what’s the Work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” -A.G.

83.”…Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world’s ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.” -Carl Rakosi

84. “To diminish the mass of human and sentient sufferings.” -Gelek Rinpoche



A.G.

Naropa Institute, July 1992

New York, March 5, 1993

New York, June 27, 1993


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