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Oh Riantee -- spot on are you. A reminder to be read over and over
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Thank you,<br class="">
Dani<br class="">
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font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Two
Thrushes told me: <span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></span></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">On
my dozing pillow the Swainson thrush’s warbling</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">reaches
me from the edge of the forest:<br class="">
<br class="">
</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">“Wake
up, you have slept long enough,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">open
your eyes, step out of the house</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">don’t
let the ceiling cut you off from the sky,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">hear
my song spreading the word</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">that
nothing is wrong with the world,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">that
it is even okay when it’s not okay,”</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">I
hear the wise bird say as all my senses awaken </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">from
the dreamer’s dream.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">My
open window allows </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">the
scent of wild azalea</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">to
intone with the warbling: </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">“You
don’t have to fix anything, anyone, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">not
even yourself,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">for
there can be no mistake in all of creation.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The
world has solidified your attention, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">but
nothing ‘out there’ has density, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">don’t
fall for the illusion of gravity.”</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">From
far far away the Hermit thrush responds,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">sending
ripples of pleasure throughout my waking body:</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">“There
is only the movement of eternal breath</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">breathing
everything in and out of form. </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">What
you believe you see</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">is
just another dimension of this formless reality,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">this
physical web of relationships crossing and uncrossing,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">constantly
exchanging energy.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">When
you fell into sleep everything crystallized, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">your
first attention became fixated in the thinking mind.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Now
you have learned to move out of thought </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">to
incubate the second attention, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">but
images replaced opinions </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><i class=""><font color="#0432ff" class="">and you lived a magazine life.</font></i></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Absorbed
in pictures </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">you
could not access your third attention.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><i class=""><font color="#0432ff" class="">Be no one.</font></i></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:036B630A-F97F-41FB-85BC-287478B6A233@mcn.org" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Release
the unresolved sufferings held in the body,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">unravel
the training that lured you into sleep</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">from
your very beginning,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">light
the sacred fire of the present,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">bring
the past to the moment, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">use
nostalgia as an opportunity to revisit it </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">with
a fondness for your wise purity </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">and
innocent awareness,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">start
the re-parenting that revises what no longer serves
you, </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">for
you are the maker of your own experience.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Let
consciousness be laughter </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">that
tumbles down </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">the
imagined walls of separation,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">allow
bird songs to penetrate </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">the
points of entry in your body,</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">and
together </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">we
will hum the world into creation.”</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><font color="#000000" class=""> </font></p>
<font color="#000000" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"" class="">Thus spoke the thrushes.</span><br class="">
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