which immediately evokes its opposite: the earth, composed of water. This that which precedes or follows each element of the poem, the work as a whole would not exist. The argument that this procession may be entirely random is presence of such religious language alongside the cacophony of distracting questions that precedes it would seem to demonstrate an inherent contradiction, but in fact applies a coating of awareness towards the emptiness behind all of these elements of the entire poem. Indeed, Trungpa again hammers the proceed and move forward beyond themselves, they will simply get caught up in explanations and their own empty self. The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa This poem, a dialogue between Trungpa and Ginsberg recorded in an outburst in Boulder, Colorado, acts as a mirror of Buddhist call and response texts involving master and pupil, whereby the former replies to the latter’s questions or actions in verse or prose. In this vein, its instructional nature is as apparent as willing disciple of Trungpa’s, who nonetheless attempts to drift them onto new having revealed it to him. Ginsberg’s verbal wandering here provide luminosity, but without the ignition of Trungpa’s Buddhist thought, his words would end up as lost, spent matches. The poem itself begins from a space where there should not be any meaand action. Instead of indicating the meditative space of a lack of occurrences, however, it is from here that the entire world of these poets’ absurd creation mind chorus presently thrown out by the two individuals themselves, in reality
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