The poet Rumi once wrote “Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
I first accessed this field in 2012. I sense that I found it as a respite from the harsh conditions I was facing at the start of this journey I have undertaken. The experiences were so devastating that aspects of my ego died rather than try and survive and this death allowed me access to this field.
I must say that in the last two years, meeting someone and discovering a great love for them helped me to anchor myself more and more in this field of "It simply is"
This field is the field of souls. Out beyond the materialistic, egoic world, it a meadow of laughter, love and total acceptance all tinged with wonder. I have faced judgement, anger and disdain in this field from folk not so adventurous and I just chortle as it passes me by.
Lately though, since my ejection from the garden (that sounds a bit Adam and Eve like) I have spent a lot of time out of the field and in the grime of human affairs Called to face and heal my greatest wound, that of feeling unlovable, unwanted, unnecessary, all the "uns" Much grief as the wounds of childhood and, I suspect, other lives rose to the surface to be accepted, understood and released.
Just recently, I have wondered if perhaps my life in the field was more a "meadow of madness" adventure and I had made mistakes and hurt people through my selfish indifference to their suffering. The weight of grief in my heart has acted like an anchor, preventing me from flying free.
Then suddenly, last night, I slipped back into the field. Awoke early this morning, 4am, good time to be awake on an International forum eh?
And here is my guide and soul friend Sadhguru talking about this field in a wise and wondrous manner that dispelled all my doubts.
I sense that many folk are finding themselves in the field and so I hope they are guided to this thread so that they may understand themselves and their journey with a calm assurance.
I first accessed this field in 2012. I sense that I found it as a respite from the harsh conditions I was facing at the start of this journey I have undertaken. The experiences were so devastating that aspects of my ego died rather than try and survive and this death allowed me access to this field.
I must say that in the last two years, meeting someone and discovering a great love for them helped me to anchor myself more and more in this field of "It simply is"
This field is the field of souls. Out beyond the materialistic, egoic world, it a meadow of laughter, love and total acceptance all tinged with wonder. I have faced judgement, anger and disdain in this field from folk not so adventurous and I just chortle as it passes me by.
Lately though, since my ejection from the garden (that sounds a bit Adam and Eve like) I have spent a lot of time out of the field and in the grime of human affairs Called to face and heal my greatest wound, that of feeling unlovable, unwanted, unnecessary, all the "uns" Much grief as the wounds of childhood and, I suspect, other lives rose to the surface to be accepted, understood and released.
Just recently, I have wondered if perhaps my life in the field was more a "meadow of madness" adventure and I had made mistakes and hurt people through my selfish indifference to their suffering. The weight of grief in my heart has acted like an anchor, preventing me from flying free.
Then suddenly, last night, I slipped back into the field. Awoke early this morning, 4am, good time to be awake on an International forum eh?
And here is my guide and soul friend Sadhguru talking about this field in a wise and wondrous manner that dispelled all my doubts.
I sense that many folk are finding themselves in the field and so I hope they are guided to this thread so that they may understand themselves and their journey with a calm assurance.
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