Volumes upon volumes have been written about the dense concept of emptiness, which sounds like a cosmic “joke’s on you!” Yet, it’s a subject worth pondering and an experience worth mustering.
Both Buddhism and Quantum Science would agree that the true nature of things is that they are empty. As we play our part in existence by participating (the cause that produces effects, in simplistic Buddhist terms), or by simply observing (the wave that becomes particle, in simplistic Quantum Science terms), we influence reality and its appearance in the phenomenal world. These appearances arise from the infinite vastitude of emptiness.
Emptiness is everywhere, yet nowhere. Paradoxes abound. Is it possible to exercise our will into the vastness? What happens next? How do we observe nothingness (no-thing-ness), without it being a thing? We certainly won’t answer these questions today, though again, they are well worth pondering. We will, however, move toward the precipice of pure potential, that meditative sweet spot where focus steadies, expansiveness readies, and… we simply let go and find ourselves, where? In the space of open awareness.
Happy meditating.