Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. Ill meet you there. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. Ill 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 doesnt make any sense. Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right, It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. Today, like every other day, we woke up empty and frightened. Dont open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Some Rumi-- The mind cannot understand Rumis poetry. Neither can desire. Mind and desire are not enough. Theres something else, some other way of knowing, some deeper part of our being that knows were not in grief, that knows were in eternity, you know, that sings out of that. Thats the mystery, I think, that cannot be said. --Coleman Barks translator of Rumi poems
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:16:29 +0000
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