[Thespiritexpress] poem read at Mastery

[roz at mcn.org]

> So deep, beautiful and true. You express the ineffable so amazingly!
Love, Roz


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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