THE INNER SPACE: A DREAM JOURNAL QUOTE

We join spokes together in a wheel,

but it is the center hole

that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,

but it is the emptiness inside

that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,

but it is the inner space

that makes it livable.

We work with being,

but non-being is what we use.

Tao Te Ching

EMPTY SPACE: A 10 MINUTE DREAM JOURNAL EXERCISE

The Japanese concept of “MA” can be translated as “empty space.”

Rather than trying to explain the absences in your dream, try to feel what it might be like in the negative spaces and silences of your dream.

Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept it…

Write for 10 Minutes about a feeling or experience of emptiness in one of your dreams.

WORKSHOP: THE PRESENCE IN ABSENCE 6/22/10

The empty spaces which give form to poetry; The negative spaces which give substance to paintings; The pregnant pauses between dialogue in a play; The silences between notes in music are often found in the world of the arts. Similarly, we experience the dream that doesn’t have an end, the room without a door, the faceless intruder, the message we can’t hear. The ambiguity of this paradoxical state is precisely the territory that expands our consciousness in dreamwork.