Zen & Buddhism

Spacious Presence

Being aware with room for everything, resisting nothing.

Spacious awareness is like the sky - vast enough to hold all weather without being disturbed. We learn to be present with spaciousness, allowing all experiences without contraction or resistance.

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• What Zen says about fear and anxiety

  Awareness held wide enough to contain the fear without tightening around it. Nothing has to be pushed away for this to work.

• What Zen says about rest

  The image is the sky, wide enough to hold all weather without being disturbed. Rest here is not the absence of difficulty but room around it — conditions do not have to improve before you can stop contracting.