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Oh Riantee -- spot on are you. A reminder to be read over and over
again.<br>
Thank you,<br>
Dani<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/29/21 10:03 PM, Riantee Rand via
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Two
Thrushes told me: <span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">On
my dozing pillow the Swainson thrush’s warbling</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">reaches
me from the edge of the forest:<br class="">
<br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“Wake
up, you have slept long enough,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">open
your eyes, step out of the house</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">don’t
let the ceiling cut you off from the sky,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">hear
my song spreading the word</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">that
nothing is wrong with the world,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">that
it is even okay when it’s not okay,”</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I
hear the wise bird say as all my senses awaken </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">from
the dreamer’s dream.</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">My
open window allows </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the
scent of wild azalea</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to
intone with the warbling: </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“You
don’t have to fix anything, anyone, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">not
even yourself,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">for
there can be no mistake in all of creation.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">The
world has solidified your attention, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">but
nothing ‘out there’ has density, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">don’t
fall for the illusion of gravity.”</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">From
far far away the Hermit thrush responds,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">sending
ripples of pleasure throughout my waking body:</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“There
is only the movement of eternal breath</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">breathing
everything in and out of form. </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">What
you believe you see</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">is
just another dimension of this formless reality,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">this
physical web of relationships crossing and uncrossing,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">constantly
exchanging energy.</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">When
you fell into sleep everything crystallized, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">your
first attention became fixated in the thinking mind.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Now
you have learned to move out of thought </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to
incubate the second attention, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">but
images replaced opinions </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">absorbed
in pictures </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">you
could not access your third attention.</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Release
the unresolved sufferings held in the body,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">unravel
the training that lured you into sleep</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">from
your very beginning,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">light
the sacred fire of the present,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">bring
the past to the moment, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">use
nostalgia as an opportunity to revisit it </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">with
a fondness for your wise purity </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and
innocent awareness,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">start
the re-parenting that revises what no longer serves
you, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">for
you are the maker of your own experience.</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Let
consciousness be laughter </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">that
tumbles down </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the
imagined walls of separation,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">allow
bird songs to penetrate </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the
points of entry in your body,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and
together </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">we
will hum the world into creation.”</div>
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0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"" class="">Thus spoke the thrushes.</span><br
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