Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is 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.

The ultimate step or stage of Zen is then revealed, not as the satori usually described as Zens ultimate in most Western presentations, but as Mu mystery. We stand in the midst of silence, without any rational constructs, before Mu as words or logic or math would only serve to inject limitations and inadequate approximations. Using the theologian Gabriel Vahanians idea, authentic engagement with Mu requires silence in what he calls a waiting without idols, the most prominent idols being our rational constructs of explanation. Within the Zen conversation, we at least are able to step a bit outside our own cultural predispositions, and see that may be very plausible alternatives to rational explanations. In fact, we may even find that engagements with mysteries and a silence without explanations is a better way to participate in lived existence than to watch all that appears through the lens of sense. In doing so, we may be led to see further dimensions of our world, others, and our own selves. The whole matter of potential may be stretched to a whole next dimension. We may actually begin to see mystery as a legitimate kind of engagement with reality that has parity with engagements of proof and Truth. Mystery might, in fact, we a higher form of the proof and Truth of the realities that matter most.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.