Ah, the classic Rumi poem… it’s being quoted everywhere these days.
People love to recite this, saying, “See, it doesn’t matter how I do it; let go of right and wrong!”
But did you know that the poem doesn’t stop there? Here’s the full version:
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.
When you consider the idea of the phrase “each other” not making sense, now what happens to it?
Awesome. Thanks for the elaboration.
You’re welcome.
What do you make of it? (Just curious…)
It’s a lovely, paradoxical concept to keep in mind. Whenever something seems like a paradox, it strikes me as Truth.
“Each other” means to me:
(each)= We are each totally unique manifestations.
(other)= We are not separate.
Nice.
I like the way you describe the “paradox”… which points towards the meaninglessness of even implying that separation could exist…
he is pointing at what we have called in the west “the Golden Rule” only much more profound, as he sees that there is no other. While what you do just IS, yet you do it to us all, including yourself. So this is actually a call for the utmost care in our actions. a wholistic embrace, a vast perspective of the reprocussions of our actions.