nothing on it

The Absolute works with nothing

By Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
(1207 - 1273)

English version by Coleman Barks



The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials
are what does not exist.

Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.