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I met Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa on a street corner in New York with my father by accident
way back in 1970,
and then I came here to Boulder, and he invited me to teach poetry and meditation.
And he said that for his buddhist meditators to be able to speak
about liberation of mind to America they would have to be poets.
(CTR): Poetry comes from expression of one's phenomenal world in the written form.
It could be either prose or poetry form.
It's not so much from a buddhist point of view;
it's that you write a good poetry particularly, but how your thought patterns become elegant -
- that you see the phenomenal world as a process, stages, as a view.
From a buddhist situation, everything is a learning situation,
so that the teacher can share their sense of journey with the student,
and the student can share their sense of journey with the teacher,
rather than the professors or teachers have stopped.
They have received their PhD degree and after that they don't have further learning to do.
So the idea is a mutual exploration,
and obviously, the purpose in the whole thing is to develop some sense of sanity.