“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense”. Rumi
One of my favorite and many others pieces of prose mysticism from Rumi.
And to me, what he's saying there that beyond the ideas of right and wrong, which are always judgement words, there is a sacred space where the soul can meet in its truest form. It is a realm free from the judgments of the world, untouched by the constraints of moral codes. In this space, there are no divisions….no concepts of good or bad, just a pure connection to the divine and to all that exists. It is here, in this open field, that we transcend the ego and the need to defend our beliefs. We meet as one, free from the weight of ideas and distinctions that often cloud our understanding.
When the soul rests in this sacred field, it merges with the expansive grace of the universe. In this place, words become irrelevant; they fall away, unable to capture the vastness of the experience. The soul is too full to articulate the depth of its union with all that is. The illusion of separation vanishes, and the concept of "each other" disappears, as there is only a singular, boundless presence. In this space, we are one with the divine, experiencing the fullness of life without the need for explanation or even thought. The spirit simply knows, and in this knowing, we are complete.
Nigel Lott teaandzen.org
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