A message of Peace

At the moment many conflicts and wars are happening on the planet and this situation is worrying everybody, both people that consider themselves as spiritual seekers and those who apparently do not search in spirituality or religion an answer to this suffering. It is obvious to everybody that something very wrong is going on in humankind, something seems to be out of balance.

Some people thinks that this balance could be establish with a bigger control on population, and those are the people who buy biggers weapons, bigger guns, bigger locktes to their doors. Some would even think that one governament and one army should control everything, because security has become an issue so important that freedom can be well reduced just to garantuee more balance and peace.

The result of this way of thinking is evident: those actions come from fear, although their intentions might even be positive, and therefore have fear as a result, not peace. Peace cannot be the consequence of an action coming from fear and when we act according to this belief the results are those ones we see now in the world and whose consequences are worrying everybody.

It is necessary therefore that peace becomes our inescapable start point if we want to see a different world and future manifesting for ourselves and for the whole humanity.We need to discover this peace and realize what it is, otherwise we will be carrying on to be dominated from fear and more suffering will be the result.

Fear comes from an base error in the way in which we perceive ourselves and the world.

We see ourselves as a part and therefore we see the world partially. We want to save a part and we exclude another, we take one side and fight the other. Out of this sense of separation fear arises with all the consequences that this fear involves. Love excludes nothing and involves everything, Love sees the world from unity and acts in accordance to its natural laws and balance.

Wars are based on this sense of separation, as well as what we consider our personal conflicts. The base is the same: we believe to be separated from the other, from the entire world. This assumption is utterly untrue. What we are is One Being living through all forms and manifesting as One World. Everything is Consciousness even what appears to be unanimated matter. Science tells us that all is Energy: this one energy comes from a place a that is even beyond that, it comes from Silence, Stillness, Peace.

Peace is therefore the source of everything, but when the sense of separation is present it remains hidden and it is searched in the world creating more confusion. This Peace is the source of the world itself:  it is out of this Unmoving One that everything is originated and this One is I, the very same that lives through all forms. Peace is the I, the witness and the Source.

All that appears, included your body and mind, is witnessed by this still aware impersonal I. Usually it is believed to be our own body-mind, and in this belief we miss to catch that we are instead what is seeing everything and is measuring everything (time, space, change, colors, forms etc.). What we truly are is therefore beyond all these categories and thats why we can see all the changes in the world. It is infact out of the Eternal that times is seen to pass, it is out of Void that all that changes is seen transforming. I is therefore this impermanent Awareness, the Still Void, Peace itSelf, the Source. What we are is not just the body mind but this I that sees all, the same I of all beings.

Seeing is creating. What is manifesting it exists because you see it. This is something that even science is now recognizing: the witness and the witnessed are One and the second exists because the first does. I exists beyond the manifestation that comes and goes, but the manifestation does not without the I seeing it.

When it is seen that the place out of which you observe the world is the same place out of which you create it, then it is suddenly clear that the conflicts is shown in the manifestation is just a reflection of this belief of separation. When “thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” - as written in the Bible - in other words when this seeing from the whole is recognized, all that seems to be separated and conflictual actions are seen to be the ONE action of the Divine. It is this One that tries to recognize itself through its manifestation and when it misses to see to be ONE it itself thinks to be a part in the many and it is conflict with itself.

This recognition is the same that has been done by those around which all religions are based and then diverted by those who have been trying to understand what was shared, without really seeing it in themselves. Nowadays we have the opportunity through all the dramas and the emergence for the planet itself and its habitants to see again finally this message of True Love and Peace. It is important that all human beings see it as the consequences of this ignorance are literally killing us.

Do not think that it is not enough that you see it for a manifestation to appear in the world. If you have arrived to this point in your reading, it means that something in what was shared is now clicking with you and you are getting as well to recognize to be the One that is actually writing these very words. You are the still I, the eternal Awareness that creates all, You are this Peace you seek to establish OUTSIDE of you. When you see this Peace as what you are every action will be just a manifestation of it, a reflection of it. When you forget this what you experience is suffering and pain in your life and in the world itself as you try to find yourself, Peace, in what is an everchanging world.

This message can be understood by everybody. No preparation is needed. It is enough that you recognize that what you have been attaching yourself to is a false image of you that was creating separation. What is instead your experience of this and every moment is that you are this I that is seeing all, included this words, the place in which your body is, the inner play of the mind. This I that sees all the changes is Peace. This I is the SAME for all forms, the body-minds changes but this that is witnessing is always the empty I. Therefore we are One, I am you and you are me.

Seeing this is Love. A Love that is not an emotion but is the Peace that we seek in ourselve and in the world. This Love that you are is asking you to recognize itSelf also through that form so that we can live it and celebrate it in this beautiful garden that is the earth.

In Love,

Shakti Caterina Maggi

Freefalling into a new dimension- 2012

Imagine a new world

"It seems absurd, yet it is exactly true, that because all reality it is nothing, there is no other real or anything of substance in the world that illusions". (Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone) 

If you want to speculate on this beautiful statement: what remains of the concerns about the euro and the fate of the world economy? And when it comes to wake up, now that you are awake, it's so obvious what you should do or not do?"

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What is happening right now in the world is a rare opportunity to wake up because never in the known history of our planet we have been so close to create a dream of horror and destruction like this. Not only is there the threat of a worldwide economic collapse that could well be followed by a repression and  mass control to "save us", but the earth itself trembles and cries for the pain of her children animals and humans, for her mountains raped and valleys, rivers and seas poisoned. 

On the planet the most of human beings (something like 98%) are abused, hungry, thirsty, or reduced to extreme poverty by the 2% of the population that holds all the wealth, the comforts, the technological means, war tools and energy. You and I are just lucky to be born in that 2%, although in turn a still smaller percentage of people, the so-called élite, decide and govern much of our material life and indirectly through the manipulation of religions and beliefs also the spiritual one. In short, there is a scenario that perhaps never as now seems to show how fragile our lives are, how easily we can lose everything, or at least how death is a real possibility despite our best efforts to grant us safety and protection. Now more than ever what happens in the world reminds us that we can self-destroy us at any moment as a human race and how that control is exercised on the masses, because of fear, cause suffering and iniquity. 

What we see in the mirror of Life, if we are not afraid to open our eyes and look at it, it is the fact that as creatures we are impermanent, that we may die at any moment, and no matter how much control we seem to be able to exercise to exorcise this fear of death (through attachments to things or people or situations), the security we seek in the world is not there. And remember, those who exercise the biggest control, the so-called élite, are the most frightened of all, much more frightened than you or me! They need absolute control in order to feel at peace, because in reality they are not at all!If you can take a step back and see all that this is an opportunity to really live life not from fear, but from the joy of living, then this mirror does not need to manifest as it is doing now. Its task would be, so to speak, exhausted.  

If you go on the streets in indignation against what is happening and you fight you are still trying to clean the mirror from stains that you yourself are reflecting there. If there is still fear in you because there is still a sense of separation, if you try to hold off the fear with control strategies, that will be the fear and control that will be reflected in the world. If, however, you can use the mirror to get in touch with fear and control then the mirror will be used to its best and the reflected image will change. If, however, there is stubbornness to think that the image is real and you fight it as such or you close your eyes not to see the horror, then the mirror will reflect that conflict and also the system of covering up that we act on ourselves. The horror of it will be hidden, because we hide something from ourselves. 

Everything you see in the world is always and only yourself, what you love what you hate it is you. If you see this and there is no conflict about it, or if you wake up to who you are then there is no concern. I'm not worried about what happens in the world, but I do not even close my eyes not to look at it, or go out on the streets to protest, but I am OPEN to this information even if it can be unpleasant. I see what it is its position in the global scene, as the action needed to create a mass awakening that otherwise might not happen. 

 You see, the mechanical response of the mind to certain informations is "Well, but I what can I do? Better not even to care about it, do not tell me anything, it makes me just worried or sad. " This reasoning is based on the idea that you are a someone separate from what is happening and a someone that can or can not do something and because is feeling to be helpless choose to ignore it alltogheter. As long as this behavior is mantained the mirror of the world will become more and more controlling and scary because that feeling of helplessness and fear could be felt at the end. What creates the world is not the person you think you are, but the Dreamer of the Dream of life. As such you want to wake up to this fact and you will use all means necessary to do, including horror, war, famine etc.If the situation is extreme and hopeless, then the control mechanisms of fear break up and what the mind calls fear, which is actually our own joy and radiance repressed, can be felt fully. When you go in this way beyond the fear then you can live from joy. 

In reality for the human consciousness this is an incredible opportunity: to let go of control of fear and then radically change our way of way of living. A change that begin not as an act of will, but as a consequence of the fact that living in fear is too painful. A new way of living that springs from the realization that the trading of our happiness of today for not being afraid tomorrow is something that creates only suffering. You can only be in joy NOW.If you're awaken to what you are, you are not even afraid of what is happening, but you take it for what it is: a reflection of the ignorance and suffering still present in the human consciousness. If you're awake, you know that the only true revolution is that inner one. You will not be scared, however, to be exposed to informations that reflect that ignorance and fear. In fact you will be happy to talk about it, if the occasion presents itself, because you know that this information can cause a vital shock in those who still have their eyes closed to the world and so this will be an opportunity of awakening.

Think about it: when do we feel most alive? It happens in situations of extreme joy or, paradoxically, in situations that seem to be hopeless and therefore shut off our control mechanisms and security. It could be a serious or fatal or a grief or a divorce, or the loss of a job. Sometimes these vital shocks are the Life call that normally, as we stay numb in our torpor of false certainties, are not able to hear. This moment in human history, more than ever, is the opportunity to be called to let go of our false beliefs, to cross fear without repressing it anymore and live out that birthright that is joy. As children we are never fear: we called it excitement! 

If you feel this call, and the fact that you ask questions means that you do feel it, this moment in history is a fascinating moment in which finally our spiritual and material life can meet and cancel each other out. In other words, there is nothing you have to do, because as imaginary separate individual you already do nothing. There is no "me" in the body that produces thoughts, actions or feelings, they are all just witnessed by I, the One Consciousness that gives rise to everything and that lives through and as all forms. If we imagine to be a separate me from the world, then we want to have control over it because we are afraid, if we see that the separation is an illusion, then the dream world that is NEVER separate from us will reflect this understanding of Love. 

John Lennon said:

 "Imagine there is no heaven, 
it's easy if you try, 
No hell below us
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people living from today ... 
Imagine there's no countries
 it isnt hard to do  
Nothing to kill and die for
and no religion tooImagine all the peoplelive life in peace .. 
You may say I'm a dreamer
 but I am not the only one
 I hope someday you will join us
 and the world will live as ONE ... " 

A dear greeting,

Shakti

War and peace

Years ago, when I worked as a financial journalist the world changed forever. Watching live images on CNN to launch updates for the agency I worked for it seemed to watch one of the usual action movie, except that it just was not a movie ... Or maybe it was but at the time I did not understand it that way!

My job was to cover Wall Street news and my agency was one of the first to break the news that the United States had been attacked in their territory, that the WTC was exploding, melting as a piece of butter on itself while men and women in despair threw themselves from the high floors of the building to escape a death in the flames. The Pentagon was pierced by what seemed like the hole caused by a missile, but the White House quickly told us that it was hit by a plane, although there were no signs of burnt grass on the lawn in front of the building, and no signs of any aircraft crashed on it. The world changed and I with it, losing faith in the fact that what I was doing was information ... it was DIS-information.

I realized this over time, at first I was just stunned and incredulous that the very newspaper I worked for (which by accident it was chaired by the new mayor of NY) did not want to publish the news that the giants of finance Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers showed - looking at the data - that someone KNEW what was going to happen weeks in advance of the event. They surprisingly had exchanged billions of dollars on the bet that the shares of the airlines companies involved in September 11 would have collapsed. But the newspapers did not have any interest in investigate about it, because you were told to write just that some rogue states in the Middle East wanted to destroy the Western world, and it was better to exchange freedom with security. All it was needed it was some minor surgical wars that would have taken place in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and maybe Syria. No worries guys, Americans would have been very little in Iraq, maybe no more than two weeks ... it had to be done since that Iraqi were holding weapons of mass destruction! I felt that it was not that way at all and that if until that moment I thought that the social system to which I belonged to had created the best of all possible worlds now I was struck by the fact that sensation we were the "bad guys". I felt also that if we stayed silent and in agreement like sheep without asking any questions we would have ended up supporting the game of those who got rich working on oil wells of others countries and creating new weapons that would have killed and poisoned even the soldiers who used them to massacre innocent and unsuspecting people. The world has changed and I with it, or at least the sign of a change seems to arrive.

Today I know that the war on terror only creates more fear and terror. Wars are not meant to be won, but only to keep the supremacy of those who earn from the war business and the maintenance of the dominant system. The wars are not made to fight for the keeping of peace or justice: the act of killing another human being or invade or destroy his house is not an act that can bring peace.

War is not an inevitable action, it is not the only alternative: in a global society every man is called to respond of the pain of others like him, mourning with his brother as if that grief, hunger and poverty were his own. Because the other is I. We are a Single Consciousness, that lives through all bodies, including those who seem to want to hurt you, or have a skin color that scares you, or that threaten to destroy your wealth and health. This is the realization that destroys the old paradigm of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and instead opens a different dimension, the only one that can really transform fear. It is the dimension of Love.

As long as we dont understand this we will be dominated by fear and terror and we will obey their laws to the point that it seems impossible to live in any other way than that to protect and defend or attack in order to have more otr keep what you have. The eyes of fear do not see that the pain that drives someone to do evil is the same that burns in your heart. The eyes of fear are unaware of the fact that the tears of a mother whose son died in a war are always the same, no matter which flag was sewn on his uniform. The eyes of fear they do not know that God is always by your side even when you call it Allah or Krishna. The eyes of fear point the finger against the shames of the world because they are too ashamed to show their own fragility and contradictions. The eyes of fear want to be right, they want to explain to you how things are and do not know to listen to the fact that their desire for truth is the same that animates the ones that seem not to agree with you.

The eyes of love are open to injustices seeing that they are only a reflection of their inability to live following what we know to be true of us, the inability to honor our heart. The eyes of love does not ask peace to makes a war, but they offer it at any time without imposing their ways. The eyes of love see no separations, do not recognize borders, do not ask what is your belief or currency or law to be able to love you.

Until we are ruled by fear and not follow the laws of love that are written in our hearts we will not thrive in joy. Joy is our birthright, and it is for every living being on this planet, every man or woman, every elder, every child, every animal or plant, or rock or crystal.

Open your heart and if you do not know how to live from love, then ask to be shown. It will happen instantly. You will feel the heart that breaks open, the pain that melts in tears. Ask to learn how to live from love, and your deepest Self will show you how. It is actually already doing it, since always.

With Love,
Shakti Caterina Maggi

Creating

What does it mean co-creation?
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There is no co-creation, because there is one CREATING. There is not a someone, or more someone that create: what we see around us, what we call our external reality is not the result of an act of will of a supreme Being, or the collective result of more co -creators. What we call reality is an expression of our own BEING and not the result of a doing of a someone or more someone. YOU ARE WHAT YOU SEE, you're everything that appears not only AS what you call your form and what happens THROUGH your form, but as any living and not living thing and the way which whatever is expressed through everything. If what we call reality IS your consciousness where is left the room for an acting of a creator, or for a co-creator? Your basic nature is Silence, Nothingness, Emptiness. The entire universe is the answer to the question "Who am I?". The question and the answer unfolds as what appears as life. That's the reason why any situation in your apparent separate existence is an opportunity to see who you are, no matter how dysfunctional or perfect your life seems to be, it's there as an expression of how you know yourSelf. When the catching of yourself in what appears happens, when that illusory sense of distance is cut down, then there is no more an inside and an outside. Then it rains because you are sad, because you feel in the conflict there is war, all is quiet at night because you're falling asleep. There is no a "me" that creates, the creation is the expression of your true empty I that is searching to understand itself to find itself back. When the finding happens, NOTHING is not found and NO ONE is left who has not found anything. Just Life itself remains in its unfolding from moment to moment, Life happens for no reason, as an expression of that Self that you really are. It does not happen to for for you or me, It does not happen even for your own awakening. It is just happening and when what it is witnessing it and therefore creating it has been found in it, then that Subject merges into that which is created and what remains is only CREATING. Shakti

" There is no creator so how can ther ebe co creating . there is only creating. The essay was clear on this no creator or created just creating. The "co" can only come from the illusion of separation" Avasa

Me +you =One

What does Life actually consist of? I am not talking about our so-called private, personal lives but Life as a whole.

In order for you or I to experience Life there must be two things present, an experience and an experience-er. Regardless of what is experienced, negative or positive, these apparent two things have to be in place, without them there would be no experience.

What should be clear to us, yet for some reason is not, is that we experience our body in the same way that we experience any other object, as a thing. Somehow we have got a bit misidentified with the experience and lost sight of the experiencer and we barely notice this fact. I claim that the body is what I am when in fact this is not my first-hand experience. My first-hand experience is that “I”, whatever this is, is not the body but what knows of the body as an experience.

I experience the world, of which my body is a part, and so obviously I am the experiencer yet somehow I have fallen into a case of mistaken identity and claim that the body, which is my experience, is what I am. If I claim this to be true I am claiming that I am an object just as every other thing in my world is an object. Yet it is clear that the object is not the experiencer but the experience. ALL experiences of my world, including my body, are EXEPRIENCED and they are experienced by an EXPERIENCE-ER.

So if the body itself is not what “I” am then “I” must be something apart from the body that is in itself absent of any experience. As the subject of all objectified experience, and all experience IS objectified, “I” must be the subject and as this subjective “I” myself cannot be an object. I am not an object and therefore cannot be an experience in myself but the absence of experience. As the absence of experience I am therefore in myself a non-experience which can take in all the experiences of Life, of my world. This has to be true for every human being. We, each one of us, whilst appearing to be separate objects, are actually non-experience experiencing the world through a human form which is part of our experience. We therefore are not the body itself.

The body is an instrument for experiencing the human experience. Without it “I” could not experience Love, joy, sadness, pain, sympathy for apparent others or any of the other experiences that make up a human experience. This incredibly intricate and complex vehicle that “I”, the non-experience, needs in order to experience Life is this object that I have mistakenly been calling “I”.
“I” am no more this body than than my car is “I” when if I forget that the body is driving it. “I” am what appears to be inside the body as a non-experience. Somehow this very obvious fact has been overlooked which is strange somehow as it should be most obvious.

If I look for myself as this non-experience, this “I”, what do I find? Certainly not an experience! In fact nothing , or rather no-thing, is to BE found. I see that I am absent of thing-ness. “I” am not a feeling or a taste or a smell or a sound or an colour or shape, all of which can be described as objects, but the absence of such things. I am a sort of presence of some sort which “I” sort of know is present but as what? I have no idea, I cannot describe this, yet it is obvious that this that has no description, but is aware of itself, is what I am. I am No-thing.

This therefore must be the same for all human forms, this non-experience living through the experienced form and experiencing the world. If this is so, and it is! This is where I fully meet others for here I AM the apparent others. This “I” and the “I” of the apparent other is the same I.
In seeing my SELF to be “I” I see that all other are this same “I”. So although my outer experience of the world is that it is full of OTHER people my inner experience is that all the OTHERS are no other than my Self. We are all the same Self, One-Self, one`s true Self is ONE Self !

All my imagined problems with “others” have been based upon a wrong identification. All my so –called personal problems have been based on this idea that I was a limited being within a body when the Truth is “I” am in all bodies, I am unlimited. All of the human problems therefore are also this. The problem of conflict , war, hatred and all those activities based upon the sense of separation between imagined others dissolve here in this realisation that “WE”, which itself is an illusion , are all “I”, all are the same Self functioning through all the forms.

All the problems of mankind are based upon this wrong assumption of separation, this wrong identification with one`s self. It is all based on a case of mistaken identity.
The only way therefore to solve ALL the problems, both the personal AND the problems of ALL humanity and the international level, is to see clearly what “I” is. When I know that I am you and you are I, that we all are “I”, finally Love is true of us. When action then arises from the conscious recognition of this Love all action will serve both one`s self and the One-Self.
The realisation and awakening to what we are is the answer to ALL of humanity`s problem.

Are you the experience or the One that is experiencing? Look for your Self because only you have the authority to state the answer. Is what we call “I” a thing or the aware no-thing-ness that is reading these words right now THROUGH the body.

If you SEE this clearly then you have just realised that what you have read is your own message to yourself. Welcome back home, to the place that you have never left !!!

Avasa

“Least aware of what we should be most assured
Our glassy essence”
William Shakespeare.

Beyond the stories of the mind

I'm trying to listen.
Although I perceives the need of an empty mind, I can not really feel it, and I perceive a resistance.
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Hello,
you see, it is the mind that considers the mind as if it was a problem and it would like to have it empty because what is really tried to be achieved it is the void that witnesses it. In fact, the mind is not a problem at all, neither it is necessary to create an empty mind for this realization to take place. If the mind is a jungle of thoughts or it is well-disciplined and quiet, it remains anyway just an object of which you are aware.

It does not matter how the mind is coming up, otherwise it would be like saying that in order for you to witness it, it should manifest a certain way. And this is not the case. You are always the witness of the mind, not the main character of its stories, even when this is not yet consciously recognized. You know that thoughts exist because you are aware of them. When you are consciously aware of thoughts, or when you witness the mind consciously, then it is not really important to you which kind of thoughts or feelings are passing by, they are anyway just stuff that comes and goes, passing clouds in the sky.

The reason why we are so attached to the fact that certain thoughts should not be present it is because these particular thoughts have at their center as an imaginary subject our "me" or what we think we are. We do not want those thoughts, because they disturb us, they bring up with them an uncomfortable feeling and we believe them - no matter how horrible the scenario that is proposed -because we feel to be inside our thoughts and we think that really what they say could happen TO us.

This is a tragic error of perspective. The thoughts do not happen TO us, but IN ourselves. In other words they are subtle objects passing by and we are not the protagonists of them but only the witnesses!

For example, let's say the mind projects a negative scenario regarding a particular event. We will feel the anguish of that possibility and more the anguish will grow and more -if you really believe that those scenario will happen - you will believe you will feel even worse in that moment. The strategy will be then to try at all costs to not make happen that event in the idea to be able in this way to silence the feeling of anguish. Basically, what is happening is that we want to dispel that feeling that accompanies the story through an action that seems to be able to avoid that it can become true and happen.

Now, that story since the beginning is based on a lie: it is JUST a story of mind, as we really are it is not the subject of the story, but just the witness of it. That character seems to be the protagonist of the story, and who is? Its existence is based on a memory of events that have happened, a bunch of actions and thoughts that had passed through your form, but it is nothing but a memory! Your body and your mind are constantly changing and therefore who is the one that the mental story is talking about?

The story in itself it is just a story, and alhtough it does not seem at all like this when the story appears, what it does REALLY happens it is never what the mind had projected. The feeling that accompanies the story it is what we really suffer, and it is the feeling that fuel the strategies and tricks that are put into place to prevent the manifestation of the mind scenario. The strategies in themselves bring more suffering and so on.

It comes a time in our life in which it is no more possible implement strategies in order for not feeling that feeling and it is the time in which we are forced to confront our stories and the feeling in itself. Part of the story of the mind will be if the story will come to rest also the feeling will fade away. Actually it is not like that: the story is present only to the extent that one is not able to be present to the feeling that accompanies it.

Although it is not maybe immediately obvious, the story comes FROM feeling and not the other way round: if the interest in the story falls away because you can see that no matter how many strategies are put into place, the feeling is anyway coming back, then you just have to sit down with the feeling, feel it and be in a position of conscious witnessing about it. Then and only then for the first time we're really in the position to dispel that feeling, in the just staying present to it.

The story of the mind was desired to be dispelled only in the believe that in this was one could have eradicated the feeling. When you grasp that not only you are not the real main character of that story but it is not the story the origin of the feeling but its consequence, then the interest in the story will fall away automatically. One will remain just in the conscious witnessing of the feeling. The feeling will grows in intensity 'till come to a climax and it will disappear into conscious recognition.

We moved in this way from an only conceptual level - the world of the mind stories - to perceptual level. And it is ONLY at this level that suffering can be dissolved. So let the mind be present and not try to empty it. Let the stories that the mind present to pass by and if possible rather be aware of the feelings that accompany them. If it were possible to feel them without repressing them or expressing them they would reach their peak and would disappear along with the stories.

What it would remain would be what it was there since the beginning, the empty sky in which the clouds were happening.

A big hug,
Shakti