Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

The importance of space.

My gosh, this is kind of mind-blowing when you think about it.

I was reading the Dowda-Ching, the ancient wise scripture written two and a half thousand years

ago last year. And there was this one passage that really stood out to me. I've written it down here

and I've broken it down a bit for you also to make it even easier to understand. It's chapter 11.

And this is a very shared, very shared passage in the book.

It's very popular. This is what it says. 30 spokes share the wheels hub. It's the center

hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel. It's the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room. It's the empty space that makes it livable. Thus, what we gain is

substance, but what we use is emptiness. Stick with me, my friends. A slightly tighter rendering is this.

We moulds clay into a pot, but it's the emptiness inside the pot that makes it useful.

We create doors and windows, but it's the space that makes a room. Therefore, what is there is used for advantage. What is not there is used for

usefulness. Space, absence and emptiness are not lack. They are function. And what allows life

to move is the open space. So think about that. Maybe you live in a home,

you live in an apartment. Yes, there are doors and walls and windows, but what matters is the

empty space. This is where we are. This is where our furniture is. It's where our pets are, our kids,

our friends, our parties. The space matters. Maybe have a favorite coffee mug.

The mug itself is of course beautiful, but imagine it was completely full. Imagine it wasn't

hollow. It was dense. It would be useless. The space itself matters. My friends, this palates

into us as human beings. The necessity of space. When we're full of

junk, when our mind is full of junk, when we're consuming too much news, too much social media,

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