Buddha chose one of the really most accurate words –shunyata. The English word, the English-language equivalent, is nothingness, and it is not as beautiful. That is why I would like to reach this “no-thingness” (no-thingness – the name of the card in the English version), because no-thingness is not just nothing, it is everything. It vibrates with all possibilities. It is fully potential. It has not yet been manifested, but contains everything.
Nature is at the beginning, and nature is at the end. So why do you create such a fussin the middle? Why do you become so restless, anxious, ambitiousin the middle? Why do you create such despair? There is nothing at the beginning, there is nothing at the end –and that is the whole journey.
Staying in the “gap” can be disorienting and even frightening. There is nothing to hold on to, there is no sense of direction. There is not even a hint of what lies ahead. However, this is a state of pure potential that existed before the creation of the universe.
All you can do now is relax in this no-thingness, and fall into this silence between words… Watch this gap between exhale and inhale, and appreciate every empty moment of experience. Something holy is about to be born.