鄧小蠻幸福人生

Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. 
The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word. 
That's why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is  all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all.

In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious - why create such despair? Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey.

Osho   Take it Easy, Volume 1   Chapter 5

Commentary:

Being "in the gap" can be disorienting and even scary. Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and possibilities might lie ahead. But it was just this state of pure potential that existed before the universe was created.

All you can do now is to relax into this no-thingness...fall into this silence between the words...watch this gap between the outgoing and incoming breath. And treasure each empty moment of the experience. Something sacred is about to be born.

佛陀選擇了一個真的非常有潛力的字「空」。在英文裡面找不到一個能夠完全與之對等的字。這個「空」並非什麼都沒有，它是所有的一切，它包含著所有的可能性正在脈動著。它是潛力，絕對的潛能，只是它尚未顯現出來，但是它包含著一切。

在剛開始的時候是自然的，在結束的時候也是自然的，所以為什麼在中間的時候你要做出那麼多無謂的紛擾？為什麼在中間的時候要變得那麼擔心、那麼焦慮、那麼有野心？為什麼要製造出那麼多的失望？而我們的整個旅程就是由空無到空無。

處於「空」之中很可能會使你失去方向感，甚至會使你害怕。你沒有辦法抓住什麼，你也沒有方向感，甚至連一點暗示都沒有，使你不知道再來有什麼可能性，或是要作什麼選擇，但是存在於宇宙被創造出來之前的就是在這種純粹潛力的狀態。

現在你所能夠做的一切事情就是放鬆而進入這個「空」……進入這個在語言與語言之間的寧靜……觀照在呼吸間的一進一出之空隙，珍惜每一個「空」的經驗，有某種神聖的東西就要誕生了。