ONCE WE BEGIN TO SEE EMPTINESS AS AN EXPERIENCE to cultivate rather than avoid, we can take advantage of the many opportunities that arise in our lives to learn more about it. These don’t have to be sudden shocks where the bottom falls out and we end up in freefall. Sometimes we can connect to emptiness through less dramatic but equally unwanted emotions and states of mind. Boredom, loneliness, insecurity, uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and even depression are all potential starting points for learning how to go beyond our bubble of imputed meanings and experience things just as they are.
