Eckhart Tolle explains how focusing on nothingness, the empty space we perceive as outer space, stops the mind. That same nothingness exists internally as inner space, the field of consciousness itself. Directing attention toward what seems not to exist creates stillness.
When you focus attention on nothing, the nothingness, the no-thingness of space, your mind becomes totally still. Otherwise, you can't focus attention on it. So the same no-thingness that you see out there as outer space arises within you and is recognized as inner space, and that is the space of consciousness. Consciousness is formless and timeless. So by focusing attention on that which doesn't really exist, you can become aware of that in you that is the inner equivalent of space.
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