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Tables of Contents for First Thought Best Thought
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
Allen Ginsberg
Preface
xix
Editor's Preface
xxii
The Spontaneous Song of Entering into the Blessings and Profound Samaya of the Only Father Guru
1
2
Stray Dog
3
1
The Song of the Wanderer
4
1
Listen, listen
5
1
Whistling grasses of the Esk Valley
6
2
Song
8
1
In the north of the sky
9
2
Goodbye and Welcome
11
1
Meteoric iron mountain
12
1
The Zen teacher
13
1
American Good Intentions
14
3
First Thought
17
2
Samsara and Nirvana
19
2
Gain and Loss
21
2
Cynical Letter
23
1
Dignified Rocky Mountain
24
1
Philosopher Fool
25
2
Does love kill anybody?
27
2
A Letter to Marpa
29
2
Aphorisms
31
2
The Nameless Child
33
2
The Myth of Freedom
35
2
Haiku
37
1
The red flag flies
38
1
The sword of hatred
39
2
Silk Road
41
1
Tibetan Pilgrim
42
1
Trans World Air
43
1
A flower is always happy
44
1
True Tantra Groupie
45
2
Glorious Bhagavad-Ghetto
47
1
Tail of the Tiger
48
1
Naropa Institute, 1974
49
6
Pema Yumtso
55
2
To Britain's Health
57
3
Supplication to the Emperor
60
2
Literal Mathematics
62
2
One way
64
1
Shasta Road
65
1
Palm is
66
2
Burdensome
68
1
Tsondru Namkha
69
2
Pema Semma
71
2
Dying Laughing
73
2
Kunga Garma
75
4
1111 Pearl Street: Victory Chatter
79
2
Wait and Think
81
2
Missing the Point
83
2
RMDC, Route 1, Livermore
85
2
To Gesar of Ling
87
1
Love's Fool
88
2
Report from Loveland
90
2
1018 Spruce Street (and K.A.)
92
3
1135 10th Street (and G.M.)
95
2
1111 Pearl Street (and D.S.)
97
1
78 Fifth Avenue
98
3
The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)
101
1
Commentary on ``The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)''
102
4
Aurora 7 (#2)
106
2
1111 Pearl Street: Off Beat
108
1
Aurora 7 (and Nyingje Sheltri)
109
3
Pan-American Dharmadhatu III
112
2
Tibetan Lyrics
114
1
Asleep and Awake
115
1
Great Eastern Daughterlet
116
1
Whycocomagh?
117
2
Lion's Roar
119
1
Timely Rain
120
1
Pan-Dharmadollar
121
3
Meetings with Remarkable People
124
2
International Affairs: The Cosmic Joke of 1977
126
4
One sound
130
1
Dixville Notch: Purrington House (and C.F.)
131
4
Afterthought
135
1
Don't Confuse This for Trick-or-Treat
136
4
Eternal Guest
140
1
Swallowing the Sun and Moon without Leaving the World in Darkness: Good Lady of Wisdom
141
3
Saddharma Punsters
144
3
I Miss You So Much
147
2
The Doha of Confidence: Sad Song of the Four Remembrances
149
2
Bon Voyage
151
1
Memorial in Verse
152
3
To My Son
155
1
For Anne Waldman
156
1
Putting Up with the Trans-Canada
157
1
Buddhism in the Canadian Rockies
158
3
Praise to the Lady of the Big Heart
161
1
Not Deceiving the Earth (and M.S.N.)
162
2
Drunken elephant
164
1
Limp and Talk
165
2
How to Know No
167
2
International Affairs of 1979: Uneventful but Energy-Consuming
169
3
To the Noble Sangha
172
1
Fishing Wisely
173
1
Miscellaneous Doha
174
1
Expose: Acknowledging Accusations in the Name of Devotion
175
3
Mixed Grill Dharma Served with Burgundy of Ground Mahamudra 1980 Vintage: The Elegant Feast of Timeless Accuracy
178
3
Growing Pains Are Over
181
1
Coming of Age of My Son
182
3
You Might Be Tired of the Seat That You Deserve
185
2
When I ride a horse
187
1
Timely Innuendo
188
1
A Heart Lost and Discovered
189
1
Command
190
1
Golden Sun
191
1
As skylarks hunt for their prey
192
1
Seasons' Greetings
193
1
The Meek: Powerfully Nonchalant and Dangerously Self-Satisfying
194