Awareness is the essence of who you are, and inner space is your nature. The experience of this can be found by realising that you are noticing your thoughts, you are noticing physical sensations of your body and you are noticing emotions. That implies you are not those things and you are the common witness behind all those things.
Within meditation we can detach to a point of becoming the silent witness and this is an important stage of meditation exemplified in the practice of mindfulness. However, it’s easy to still have the sense of being an ego with a camera watching everything pass by. The key is to turn your attention around 180 degrees to look within at what is doing the looking to discover its nature.
This goes beyond mindfulness to a special insight into your real nature. It’s not just a flashlight of attention beaming out its more like a vast space without boundaries that can intentionally narrow to focus on one thing.
It’s because it’s boundless and space like that the experience can seem timeless. Things with form are bound by time. Everything passes through stages of becoming, changing and ending. But what about the inner space like nature that is not a thing because it’s space? An essential quality to understand about our space like nature is that it does not arise newly, it doesn’t change, and it doesn’t end. Its nature is not form. In other words, it's not a thing operating within the realm of time.
This can be directly experienced and has by thousands of people through-out history. It's an experience of peace and joy mostly because it’s outside the stressful realm of time. It’s an experience of complete openness, freedom and peace.
Beyond the dimensions of birth and death it transcends suffering and offers the complete fulfillment of the human potential.
Within the untouchable vast expanse of inner space all experiences are simply passing by. The weather cannot stain the sky it merely colours it momentarily. The inner space like nature naturally allows and accepts all passing experiences without resistance or stress. It’s in this open natural acceptance that the flavour of real peace and joy can be tasted.