[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[dennis jecmen]

Amazing how you are able to stitch very ordinary words together to create a spiritual masterpiece!
		Dennis

> On Jun 17, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Ocean’s Advice
>>  
>> Today the ocean
>> flat as a lake
>> serene.
>>  
>> I dive into the icy embrace
>> when the ‘doing’ temptation
>> threatens to swallow me up.
>>  
>> Not a wave detaches itself from the source,
>> all remain unified,
>> joined in allowance of the surrounding munificence,
>> the infinite presence
>> in each grain of sand.
>>  
>> The small ripples on the surface
>> do not break the flow,
>> just a caress on the spine of the whole
>> slightly set apart by shapes, shadows, shades,
>> a pointillist painting with no beginning and no end,
>> eternally tranquil in its constant motion,
>> changing and transforming
>> without ever going anywhere.
>>  
>> It has always been there!
>>  
>> To let go with the most grateful acceptance
>> of what is
>> is the gift of the ocean for today;
>> my lesson
>> on this journey to nowhere,
>> this traveling in place,
>> the place I have never left.
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