Consciousness is the essence of who you are, and inner space is your nature. The experience of this can be found by realizing that you notice your thoughts, that you notice physical sensations of your body and that you notice emotions. That implies that you are not those things and that you are the common witness behind all those things.
Within meditation we can detach to a point where we become the silent witness, and this is an important phase of meditation, exemplified in the practice of mindfulness. However, it’s easy to still feel like an ego with a camera watching everything go by. The key is to turn your attention 180 degrees and look within, at what is looking and discover its nature.
This goes beyond mindfulness and is about a special insight into your true nature. It’s not just a flashlight of attention radiating outwards, it’s more like a vast space without boundaries that can be deliberately shrunk to focus on one thing.
Because it is limitless and the space is so vast, the experience can seem timeless. Things with form are bound by time. Everything goes through stages of becoming, changing and ending. But what about inner space like nature, which is not a thing because it is space? An essential quality to understand about our space, like nature, is that it does not arise anew, does not change, and does not end. Its nature is not its form. In other words, it is not something that operates within the domain of time.
This can be experienced directly and has been experienced by thousands of people throughout history. It is an experience of peace and joy, especially because it is outside the stressful realm of time. It is an experience of complete openness, freedom and peace.
Beyond the dimensions of birth and death, it transcends suffering and offers the full fulfillment of human potential.
Within the untouchable expanse of inner space, all experiences simply pass away. The weather cannot stain the sky, it only colors it temporarily. The inner space like nature naturally allows and accepts all passing experiences without resistance or stress. It is in this open, natural acceptance that the taste of true peace and joy can be tasted.