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In meditation this morning as thoughts subsided and pure awareness moved to the forefront of my experience, this poem by Rumi came to mind:

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.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”

doesn’t make any sense.

It is the silent awareness that we experience in deep meditation that is the field Rumi is talking about here. Between your thoughts… in the space between your breathes … lies this field. Here awareness is both empty and full.

Such a paradox: empty of thought, yet full with the ineffable presence of being. And in this beingness, in this silent field, we leave behind the thinking mind, with its positives and negatives, with its right and wrong and its good vs. bad. All polarity resolves as we come to rest in this still field of Unified Consciousness or Oneness.

Oneness is all there is, and in this shared experience, in its fullness and in its profundity, language becomes unnecessary and wholly inadequate.

Closing the eyes direct your meditations here. Form the intention to quiet the mind and lie down in this, Rumi’s grass. This field is everywhere the mind is not! Yes, find it in meditation, but also anywhere you can find a quiet moment. Discernible in nature, especially, the natural world subtly pulsates here in silent wonder.

At this critical moment in a world so filled with chaos, in a world so desperately needing peace, we can choose to spend time in Rumi’s field. We can choose to leave the polarized nature of the lower mind behind with its relentless searching thoughts never resolving.

Instead let the mind be still. Be the change you want to see. Spend time in Rumi’s field, where all inner and outer conflict is resolved and, instead of a world of strife, a world of possibilities appears.