“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing 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.” Rumi
and rightdoing 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.” Rumi
This poem has been a meditation for over a year now. I
return to this quote again and again when I encounter others whose behaviors trigger
responses in myself. I’ve been learning to get curious about those responses
and rather than point at the other, look inside and stay present to what I am
feeling and what is revealed. Surrendering the need to make myself or others
right or wrong and just being with what is. Releasing judgment of myself and
others.
The release of judgment opens me up to finding the center of
what is true for myself, the possibility of having loving relationships with
other people and being in connections to others in freedom rather than a
hostage situation.
I will meet people who live in many different places with
many different value systems…it is endlessly fascinating to me how others live
life, what they value, how they do it. Non-judgment allows for the possibility
of peace rather than war. AND…non-judgment of how people choose to live is very
different than having to live as they live… I can be in Rumis’ field but this
does not mean I have to live as another. Nor does anyone else have to believe
and live as I do.
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