Lojong is a small experiment in how a piece of writing can come together when most of the words come from somewhere else.
It pairs each of 59 Lojong slogans — short, oblique instructions from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition — with a recent news story whose underlying tension echoes the slogan. An AI assistant looks for that resonance, lifts passages from the article, and arranges them into a found poem. A human writes the closing line.
The form is borrowed from Victoria Adukwei Bulley's "The Ultra-Black Fish," a poem composed almost entirely of journalistic prose about a scientific discovery. The premise here is similar: trust the source material, intervene only where the poem needs you to.
Lojong is a one-off demonstration rather than an active project — a finished piece you can read at amianai.com, more than something we're still building. It's here because it shows a particular way creativity and AI can work together.