Empty

Looking up at the sky and seeing that it is sometimes light blue, sometimes gray and smoggy, sometimes pitch black with specks of airplanes and stars, sometimes a golden orange as the sun falls down, do you feel that it is empty up there?

Or is it empty down here?

Can it be both?

If everything in the sky fell, nobody would notice. However, if anything down here fell, who wouldn’t care?

When you’re up there, you can only fall. When you’re down here, falling is a lesson to learn, and one should be able to get back up again if the world is accomodating. It makes sense to say that it is empty up there.

Up there as in the sky.

Can this be an example of perspective? In general, the sky is greater than our worlds. Of course it is difficult to notice when everything in the sky falls. It should just be a new normal.

If something down here falls, we will definitely rush to figure out why. That’s because it is within our scope of range; compared to the sky, we can only collect raindrops. It is most efficient and the most reasonable action we can make to focus on ourselves, on our world.

So, may I ask if the sky can focus on itself? Does the sky care for itself?

It should, shouldn’t it? Natural processes are natural because they happen without the deliberate push and shove of external things. They are consequences, not fruits of any farm.

Observing these processes and inducing them is not to control it, but to induce it. Still after inducing a natural process, one cannot control it.

Even after experimenting time after time, it is not the experimenter who masters the experiment, but the experiment which reveals the usual nature of things. The experimenter can only be its witness and guess as they record it.

The sky above is natural, the world below is also natural. That’s it: even if we want to control the world, it is still the world that controls us. It is our world, we are its spawn. Both groups are detached yet related; both coexist to be independent.

In this way, one can have power. But having power does not negate the existence of others.

One can cast stones and also retrieve them. One can catch stones and also accept them. Neither state is permanent so long as you take the action. Even when boulders fall, there is space in between; emptiness can be filled, and filled spaces can be emptied.