[Thespiritexpress] poem read at Mastery

[Serafina Andrews]

Oh Riantee,

Your poem speaks so deeply to the heart and our need to be free and listen to the healing songs of nature.

Thank you for the sharing and beauty of your heart.

Serafina


Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 30, 2021, at 11:12 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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