Welcoming Nothingness

Nothingness is not a negative state, nor is emptiness something to avoid.  This being without is instead a goal.  It is the elimination of what is extraneous, the achieving of an equanimity unavailable when life (and ourselves as individuals) are filled with, or obscured by, what would draw us from our more essential being.  So, it is at this point of nothingness that we are in balance and when empty there is no threat to what might be lost since it is not loss after all.