<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Riantee ~~~~~~ <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~~~~~I also cross checked my DNA~~~</div><div class="">~it was so hard to believe that we are so much the SAME~!</div><div class="">In order to confirm I had to dig through the old famiy files </div><div class="">looking for confirmation and some tools that might help me to </div><div class="">see the reality of all your words that has so much resonance~.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the process I found a treasured pair of 3D glasses from </div><div class="">the days of Old to help me see more clearly with dimensional </div><div class="">depth~!! BINGO ~ This absolutely confirmed that</div><div class="">we are indeed cut from the same cloth ~~~ woven from the </div><div class="">same threads of star dust and nourished with the Life Force </div><div class="">Energy elixir flowing from the breast of the Milky Way and </div><div class="">fertilized by the seman of the Sun ~ We arrived here on earth </div><div class="">on the back of a Cosmic butterfly transformed into light rays </div><div class="">as we entered the earths atmosphere and found our self standing </div><div class="">in a river of life, being awake and self identified ~ot-oh…Holy Shitski..</div><div class="">That was the moment of entanglement~~~~</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And while digging around in those old family boxes of nearly </div><div class="">forgot stashed away treasures and remnants of </div><div class="">the Ancient Ones that are still living through me/us I found</div><div class="">this from HSIN-HSIN NING / SENG-TS’AN the 3rd </div><div class="">Zen Patiiarch of Zen ~~~ surely you remember the stories of him ~ </div><div class="">he was always wondering around doing nothing and being </div><div class="">everything nowhere (he was so Zen) ~~ this bit of scrap left </div><div class="">behind is but one of a few crumbs another relative </div><div class="">of ours found in a long forgotten cave on the outskirts </div><div class="">of no-where and have managed to find their way to us:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~~The original was all written in Chinese~~~~</div><div class=""><b class="">~ "in this world "as it really is"</b></div><div class=""><b class="">There is neither self nor other than-self.”</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class=""> “…To know this Reality directly</b></div><div class=""><b class="">is possible only through practicing non-duality. </b></div><div class=""><b class="">When you live this non-separation,</b></div><div class=""><b class="">All things manifest the One, and nothing is excluded.</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Whoever comes to enlightenment,</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>No matter when or where,</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Realizes personally this fundamental Source.”</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your loving Oneness Riantee ~~~~~Love On In The One, ~Ron</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 26, 2022, at 8:26 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class="">My Ancestry DNA results came in.<br class="">Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather<br class="">was a monarch butterfly.<br class=""><br class="">Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone.<br class="">I am part larva, but part hummingbird too.<br class=""><br class="">There is dinosaur tar in my bone marrow.<br class=""><br class="">My golden hair sprang out of a meadow in Palestine.<br class=""><br class="">Genghis Khan is my fourth cousin,<br class="">but I didn’t get his dimples.<br class=""><br class="">My loins are loaded with banyan seeds from Sri Lanka,<br class="">but I descended from Ravanna, not Ram.<br class=""><br class="">My uncle is a mastodon.<br class=""><br class="">There are traces of white people in my saliva.<br class=""><br class="">3.7 billion years ago I swirled in golden dust,<br class="">dreaming of a planet overgrown with lingams and yonis.<br class=""><br class="">More recently, say 60,000 B.C.<br class="">I walked on hairy paws across a land bridge<br class="">joining Sweden to Botswana.<br class=""><br class="">I am the bastard of the sun and moon.<br class=""><br class="">I can no longer hide my heritage of raindrops and cougar scat.<br class=""><br class="">I am made of your grandmother’s tears.<br class=""><br class="">You conquered rival tribesmen of your own color,<br class="">chained them together, marched them naked to the coast,<br class="">and sold them to colonials from Savannah.<br class=""><br class="">I was that brother you sold, I was the slave trader,<br class="">I was the chain.<br class=""><br class="">Admit it, you have wings, vast and golden,<br class="">like mine, like mine.<br class=""><br class="">You have sweat, black and salty,<br class="">like mine, like mine.<br class=""><br class="">You have secrets silently singing in your blood,<br class="">like mine, like mine.<br class=""><br class="">Don’t pretend that earth is not one family.<br class="">Don’t pretend we never hung from the same branch.<br class="">Don’t pretend we don’t ripen on each other’s breath.<br class="">Don’t pretend we didn’t come here to forgive.<br class=""><br class="">Alfred K. 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