Spaciousness

Another term for the concept of “emptiness” might be “spaciousness”. When you first pondered the notion of emptiness, you probably thought it meant the void or simply nothingness. Often, emptiness, as nothingness, brings with it a feeling that there is no potency or possibility. Instead consider spaciousness, a term that promotes a deeper understanding of emptiness as a way of looking at experience; as a view or perception of reality. In this sense, emptiness is the means by which you take experience as it is, not adding nor subtracting anything. This way of perceiving the world is without bias or personal history; it reflects an absolute knowing of the unconditional nature of One Life arising.

Spaciousness engenders a sense of optimism, with no starting point and no separate ending point. Spaciousness requires you to start where you are. Be open to your spaciousness and you can see in all directions without limits. Because of the interdependent nature of things, anything can come into being. It just depends on the circumstances and conditions that arise and how you interact with them. There is not a way that you should be or things that must happen in life, which is not to say that life is totally random. Everything, All-That-Is, is dependent on everything and All-That-Is in order to exist. This interdependency means there is nothing and no one with whom you are not connected. This profound state of being, and the wisdom to grok it, emerges out of abiding spaciousness.
Now, to really dive deeper, notice that just because you are interdependent with All-That-Is, and you therefore affect All-That-Is, you cannot create or control a particular outcome. If you act consciously, you do not guarantee that what comes into being will reflect your perceived level of consciousness. All possibilities and all outcomes exist at all times in the spaciousness of all reality.

​You are constantly interacting with the world around you, no matter how hard you might try to isolate yourself from the world. A mutual exchange is constantly occurring, endlessly shifting and constantly adapting. Standing in your spaciousness, you experience the non-static nature of the perfect unfolding and arising of One Life in all moments.
To ground you in your relationship to your perceived reality, see your life from the perspective of spaciousness, and incorporate the wisdom of knowing the interdependent nature of All-That-Is. By that we mean you can cultivate a greater acceptance and unconditional responsiveness to what occurs in your life’s circumstances. This is where loving kindness and compassion comes in. In the midst of true spaciousness lies the wholehearted understanding of the connectedness of all that is. Whether you identify this understanding as emptiness or spaciousness, allow love to lead the way to embracing the interdependency of all aspects of One Life. Nothing is required, nothing is missing from your experience. Let all that you see,  know, and feel be empty and spacious.

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