[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[lee michel alley]

Yes, beautiful! Thank you Riantee!
xoxo, Lee

> On Jun 17, 2021, at 12:13 PM, dennis jecmen via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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