By contrast, these poignant feelings come, not from a subject, but from an unbounded openness, which wants only what is happening now. This unbounded openness does not look for satisfaction in the next person, emotion, or thought. It seems to accept every situation as is.

Restrictions and inadequacies usually come from feeling burdened, as though we are carrying a heavy load. But if we develop the notion of space fully and properly, we begin to find that there is no burden, no load.

trying with mindfulness to stay more at contact, we find that it is actually a delightful way of being. Lighter, more easeful, less burdened by the complexities of papañca, we also enjoy the vivid brightness of the present moment, the beauty of ‘nowness’, and the relative spaciousness of less self-building.

concerns the absence of self-generated images or appearances. Hence, I have usually translated this term as “freedom from projections” or “projectionlessness. ”