A Journey Into Your Inner Nature

Have you ever wondered what you are truly made of? Not just your physical body, but your deepest essence? Different ancient wisdom traditions discovered two seemingly opposite answers to this profound question.

Some teachers said reality is fullness — packed with infinite light, energy, and worlds within worlds. Others discovered reality is emptiness — a clear, open space free from any fixed identity.

Which one is true? As you’ll discover through your own direct experience, both are true. They’re two different ways of describing the same magnificent reality that lives within you right now.

Understanding Fullness: Infinite Worlds Within

What Is Fullness?

Imagine looking at your hand. It seems solid and simple. But what if you could zoom in like a super-powerful microscope?

• First, you’d see your skin cells
• Zoom deeper — you’d see molecules dancing together
• Go even deeper — you’d find atoms, spinning like tiny solar systems
• Keep going — you’d discover subatomic particles, each one buzzing with incredible energy

Ancient mystics discovered this same truth through meditation. They found that everything — even a grain of sand — contains unlimited worlds of energy and light. This is what they meant by fullness: reality is completely packed with living, vibrating, divine energy.

What Does Fullness Feel Like?

When you experience fullness through meditation, you might feel:

• Aliveness — a sense that everything is buzzing with life
• Wonder — amazement at the infinite complexity inside simple things
• Inspiration — excitement about the endless depths to explore
• Expansion — a feeling that you’re bigger and more connected than you thought

Fullness meditation helps when life feels dull, heavy, or stuck. It reminds you that infinite possibilities exist in every moment.

Understanding Emptiness: The Freedom of the Void

What Is Emptiness?

Emptiness doesn’t mean nothing. It means no-thing — free from being stuck as any one particular thing.

Think about it this way: What fills every room in your house? What exists between the stars? What allows sound to travel, and birds to fly?

Space. Open space. Empty space.

But this space isn’t weak or useless. It’s the most important thing! Without space, nothing could exist, move, or change. Space holds all possibilities.

Ancient sages realized that the deepest nature of reality is like this space. The divine energy that creates everything must be empty of any fixed identity so it can become all identities. This freedom from limitation is what they called emptiness or the void.

What Does Emptiness Feel Like?

When you experience emptiness through meditation, you might feel:

• Peace — a deep quietness beneath all the noise of daily life
• Freedom — relief from being trapped by labels and definitions
• Simplicity — everything becomes clear and uncomplicated
• Balance — a sense of natural harmony and evenness

Emptiness meditation helps when you feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, or caught up in the stress and drama of modern life.

How Can Both Be True?

At first, fullness and emptiness seem completely opposite. How can something be both full and empty at the same time?

The answer is beautiful: they’re describing the same reality from different angles. It’s like describing an ocean — you could say it’s full of water, or you could say it’s an empty space that water flows through. Both are true!

What They Share in Common

Look at these amazing similarities:

• Both are everywhere — the divine energy (whether you call it fullness or emptiness) exists in all places at all times
• Both have no particular identity — they can’t be pinned down or limited to one definition
• Both free you from time — when you meditate on either one, you stop worrying about past or future
• Both relax your body — physical tension melts away as you connect with this universal awareness
• Both reveal unity — you realize everything is connected, made of the same essential energy

The ancient mystics weren’t disagreeing. They were describing the same profound truth using different words, based on what they noticed in their meditations.

Experience It Yourself: Two Meditation Practices

Reading about these concepts is good. Experiencing them directly is transformative. Here are simple practices you can do right now. You don’t need any special equipment, training, or beliefs. Just an open mind and a willingness to explore.

Both practices use your imagination as a doorway to deeper knowing. When you focus your imagination with sincere intention, it becomes a powerful tool for spiritual discovery. Trust what you feel and sense — your intuition knows the way.

Practice 1: Exploring Emptiness (The Void)

Best for: When you feel stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, or caught up in mental chatter.

Time needed: 5-10 minutes

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Get comfortable. Sit or lie down in a quiet space. Take a few deep breaths and let your body settle.
2. Notice your surroundings. Look around the room or space you’re in. Notice the different shapes, colors, and textures of objects around you.
3. Make things transparent. Now, using your imagination, pretend that all the objects around you are becoming see-through, like clear glass. You can still see their shapes, but now you can also look through
4. Find the common energy. As you look at these transparent objects, imagine you can sense that they’re all made of the same essential energy. A chair and a lamp and a wall — all different shapes, but all made of the same universal stuff.
5. Feel the simplicity. Notice how the room becomes simpler when everything shares the same essential nature. Instead of dozens of separate things, it’s all one energy taking many forms.
6. Sense the smoothness. Imagine you can feel the energy in the room. It’s becoming smooth, even, balanced — like a calm lake. This is the void: everything simplified to its essential nature.
7. Rest in the calm. Let this simplicity and smoothness calm you. Breathe naturally. There’s nothing you need to do or figure out. Just rest in this peaceful awareness.
8. Gently return. When you’re ready, bring your attention back to the room as it normally appears. Notice if you feel more calm or spacious inside.

What You Might Notice

• A quiet, peaceful feeling in your mind
• Less worry about your to-do list or problems
• A sense that things are simpler than you thought
• Your breathing becoming slower and easier
• A feeling of space or openness inside your chest or head

Practice 2: Exploring Fullness (Infinite Worlds)

Best for: When life feels boring, stuck, heavy, or you need inspiration and energy.

Time needed: 5-10 minutes

Step-by-Step Guide

9. Get comfortable. Sit quietly and take a few calming breaths.
10. Focus on your hand. Hold one hand in front of you or rest it on your lap. Really look at it — notice its color, texture, the lines in your palm.
11. Feel the energy. Close your eyes and sense the energy in your hand. You might feel warmth, tingling, or a subtle aliveness. If you don’t feel anything at first, that’s okay — just imagine what it might feel like.
12. Focus on the center. Gently bring your attention to the center of your palm. Imagine your awareness going into your hand, like zooming in with a microscope.
13. Go deeper. Keep zooming in with your imagination. Picture yourself going past the skin, into the cells, into the molecules, into the atoms. Each level you reach opens up like a whole new world.
14. Discover infinite depths. Notice that the deeper you go, the more you discover — worlds within worlds, energy within energy, going on forever. Your simple hand contains infinite complexity!
15. Feel the wonder. Let yourself feel amazed. This isn’t just imagination — modern science confirms it! Your body truly contains incredible depths of energy and complexity.
16. Let it spread. Now imagine these infinite worlds of light and energy gently flowing from your palm throughout your whole body. Feel this fullness filling you up — unlimited energy, unlimited possibility.
17. Rest in fullness. Stay with this feeling for a few moments. You are touching the infinite nature of reality within yourself.
18. Gently return. When ready, open your eyes and return to normal awareness. Notice if the world looks more alive or interesting.

What You Might Notice

• Tingling or warmth in your hand or body
• A sense of wonder or amazement
• Feeling more awake and alert
• Things around you looking brighter or more vibrant
• A feeling of expansion or lightness
• New appreciation for the miracle of existence

Bringing It All Together

Which Practice Should You Choose?

Good news: you don’t have to choose! Try both and see how each one feels. Many people naturally prefer one or the other at different times.

Try the Emptiness practice when:

• You feel overwhelmed or stressed
• Your mind is racing with thoughts
• You’re overstimulated by screens, noise, or people
• You need to feel calm and peaceful

Try the Fullness practice when:

• Life feels dull or boring
• You feel stuck or unmotivated
• You need inspiration or creativity
• You want to feel more alive and awake

Your Path Forward

The ancient mystics spent years in caves and monasteries to discover these truths. You can access them in just a few minutes through focused awareness.

Here’s what makes these practices powerful:

• They’re experiential. You’re not being asked to believe You’re invited to experience and discover for yourself.
• They’re practical. These aren’t just philosophical ideas — they’re tools you can use to feel better, think clearer, and live more fully.
• They’re accessible. You don’t need special training, equipment, or years of practice. Just a few minutes of sincere attention.
• They’re universal. These truths exist in you already. The practices just help you notice what’s always been there.

The Beautiful Truth

As you practice these meditations, something wonderful happens. You begin to understand that fullness and emptiness aren’t really opposites at all. They’re two faces of the same truth:

The universe — and you — are both infinitely full of light and possibility, and completely free of any limiting definition. You are both everything and no-thing. Filled with infinite worlds, yet spacious as the sky.

This isn’t a riddle or contradiction. It’s the nature of reality itself, and it lives in your own heart, mind, and soul right now.

When you recognize this truth through your own experience — not through reading or believing, but through feeling and knowing — you discover something that changes everything: You and the universe are not separate. You are made of the same essence as stars, oceans, mountains, and all of existence.

A Daily Practice Suggestion

If you’d like to make these insights part of your daily life, try this simple routine:

• Morning: Do the Fullness practice to start your day with energy and inspiration (3-5 minutes)
• During the day: Take 30-second mini-breaks to notice the space around objects or the energy in your hands
• Evening: Do the Emptiness practice to calm your mind before bed (3-5 minutes)
• Any time: When stressed, take three deep breaths and remember: you are both fullness and emptiness, free and infinite

Remember

Your imagination is not ‘just pretending.’ When you focus your imagination with sincere intention, you activate your intuitive awareness. You begin to sense truths that go beyond ordinary thinking. This is how the ancient sages made their discoveries — and it’s how you can make yours.

Trust what you feel. Trust what you sense. Trust your own inner knowing. The universe is not outside you, waiting to be found. It’s inside you, waiting to be recognized.

And now, when you hear spiritual teachings about emptiness or fullness, you won’t just understand them intellectually. You’ll smile with recognition, because you’ve experienced the truth they point to. You’ve touched the infinite nature of reality within your own being.

Final Words

Every breath you take connects you to this profound truth. Every moment offers a fresh opportunity to experience the fullness and emptiness that you truly are.

You are not separate from the divine. You are the divine, expressing itself as a unique human being. Infinitely full. Perfectly empty. Always free. Forever whole.

This is your true nature. Welcome home.

Joel Bruce Wallach