Svetlana Grishina:
Buying into linguistic labyrinths and being lost in them is a big part of text production...
I am well aware that the only purpose literature could possibly serve is entertaining the mind, and that this somehow opposes meditation.
Why is entertainment the only possible purpose? When I was first beginning to learn about Buddhism, I couldn't really wrap my head around ideas like emptiness and no-self. When I read Beckett's The Unnamable, it seemed to illustrate the emptiness of the self with terrifying immediacy. I can think of dozens of works that affected me as much, all in different ways.
In fact, I think intensively reading poetry lead to my engaging with the world, getting into concentrated states, and questioning my basic assumptions in a way that directly lead to my A+P initiations.
It may be that meditation will help clarify your ideas about writing. If you think of it in terms of "text production," and as essentially useless.... Man, what a bummer.
Philip Whalen was the abbot of the San Francisco Zen center. His poetry is dense and deft and very playful. Of course, there's Gary Snyder, and several other Buddhist poets in that circle. Their attainments in meditation and writing may vary, but I would guess Whalen was advanced in both.
I'm not a big Allen Ginsberg fan, but he was pretty creative anyway, and a devotee of Trungpa.
I'm convinced that John Cage, the composer and writer, was at least a stream-enterer. His work is pretty far-out and enlightening.
And there are endless histories of Zen poets and mystic writers and artists from every tradition. Rilke was terrific and beatific. Leonard Cohen (who lived in a zen monastery for 2 years) is actually a good poet, imho. Every see John Daido Loori's photography? Really great. He taught that art practice was intrinsic to awakening.
There are some interesting videos on the web of Alan Moore discussing the connection between writing and magic. In that vein, there's also Harry Smith - definitely a crazy wisdom practitioner (he even has his name on a building at Naropa!)
Personally, I pretty much gave up writing because I felt like it was making me crazy. Now, no more crazy. Hmmm... time to write?
Last thought: A theory - maybe spiritual practice is the key to creative power without having to become a drug-addict or insane?