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And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin —Matthew 6:28-29
From this passage, Jesus is teaching his disciples about the importance of trusting in God for their needs rather than worrying excessively about material things. Jesus uses the example of the lilies of the field to illustrate this point. But for our purposes we have something more fundamental than flowers—empty space itself!
We don’t usually consider the importance or the wisdom of space unless we’ve encountered some obstacle relating to it, like trying to install a tumble dryer inside a defined volume underneath the kitchen counter for example. But space has no limits, it embodies the whole universe. Everything from the sun, moon, stars and galaxies.
There’s an ingrained liberating quality to space—empty, passive and unbarred. Contemplate the space that you perceive through seeing. Space is neutral, it doesn’t toil over, complain or make value judgments about what’s occupying it. So, if it’s beautiful, it accepts it; if it’s ugly or filthy, that’s okay too. All objects within space are merely momentary and impermanent. There’s room in space for every possible phenomenon to arise and cease, but space itself is permanent and ever present. Try to imagine forms manifesting in no space! Forms in a room or outdoors need space as the fundamental requirement to exist within, whether we like them or not is something else.
Much like a safe space, it neither judges nor discriminates; rather, it offers an expansive arena for every manifestation to happen. Just as a safe space fosters an environment of acceptance and support, so too does space itself allow forms to manifest without prejudice or preference.
Walking into a crowded public space, such as a bustling city street or a packed subway station, are spaces teeming with activity, filled with a diverse array of people going about their routines, and they offer opportunities for social interaction, observation, and sometimes even serendipitous encounters, but only because of two fundamental things—consciousness and space. Space is the filter through which we perceive all phenomena and experience, whenever our conscious awareness awakens from sleep, so co-arises space and the spatial dimensions of our surroundings, ever present until we shut our eyes.
From cultural conditioning we hold sacred spaces as something sacred, which are physical environments that hold special significance to people like: a place of worship, cemeteries or historical sites being some examples. But space is not sacred, it only seems so because we designate some volume as so. A ‘sacred space’ is nothing more than a projection from the minds and languages of human beings who label some space as ‘sacred space’. we conventionally state that we own a space but in reality nothing owns space it is free and unbarred. Consider the neutrality of space, all conditions and events are permitted in space within it impartial medium acceping of all phenomena.
