[Thespiritexpress] poem read at Mastery

[Riantee Rand]

I added two lines in the poem which I had omitted when I typed it and I feel are necessary for better comprehension (in parenthesis and in blue)
Bisous
Riantee


> On Jun 30, 2021, at 11:02, Danleigh via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh Riantee -- spot on are you. A reminder to be read over and over again.
> Thank you,
> Dani
> 
> On 6/29/21 10:03 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Two Thrushes told me:
>>>  
>>> On my dozing pillow the Swainson thrush’s warbling
>>> reaches me from the edge of the forest:
>>> 
>>> “Wake up, you have slept long enough,
>>> open your eyes, step out of the house
>>> don’t let the ceiling cut you off from the sky,
>>> hear my song spreading the word
>>> that nothing is wrong with the world,
>>> that it is even okay when it’s not okay,”
>>> I hear the wise bird say as all my senses awaken
>>> from the dreamer’s dream.
>>>  
>>> My open window allows
>>> the scent of wild azalea
>>> to intone with the warbling:
>>> “You don’t have to fix anything, anyone,
>>> not even yourself,
>>> for there can be no mistake in all of creation.
>>> The world has solidified your attention,
>>> but nothing ‘out there’ has density,
>>> don’t fall for the illusion of gravity.”
>>>  
>>> From far far away the Hermit thrush responds,
>>> sending ripples of pleasure throughout my waking body:
>>> “There is only the movement of eternal breath
>>> breathing everything in and out of form.
>>> What you believe you see
>>> is just another dimension of this formless reality,
>>> this physical web of relationships crossing and uncrossing,
>>> constantly exchanging energy.
>>>  
>>> When you fell into sleep everything crystallized,
>>> your first attention became fixated in the thinking mind.
>>> Now you have learned to move out of thought
>>> to incubate the second attention,
>>> but images replaced opinions
>>> and you lived a magazine life.
>>> Absorbed in pictures
>>> you could not access your third attention.
>>>  
>>> Be no one.
>>> Release the unresolved sufferings held in the body,
>>> unravel the training that lured you into sleep
>>> from your very beginning,
>>> light the sacred fire of the present,
>>> bring the past to the moment,
>>> use nostalgia as an opportunity to revisit it
>>> with a fondness for your wise purity
>>> and innocent awareness,
>>> start the re-parenting that revises what no longer serves you,
>>> for you are the maker of your own experience.
>>>  
>>> Let consciousness be laughter
>>> that tumbles down
>>> the imagined walls of separation,
>>> allow bird songs to penetrate
>>> the points of entry in your body,
>>> and together
>>> we will hum the world into creation.”
>>>  
>>> Thus spoke the thrushes.
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