Beyond all our psychic impressions and whims, and in the absence of our self-observation of the mind’s ever-present unrest, they have in common that they have an original dependent context of nothingness without which they cannot exist. The context they create is what we call our world. All matter, and everything that is corporeal, is what we call existence. Together with nothingness they constitute a whole, or totality that constantly interacts with what we call reality in consciousness. Based on a meditative description of this and, for example, a flower, a flower demonstrates this in itself because it lacks its own independent existence. It is composed of many other components that, if we remove them, it loses its material reality. Aboriginal people of Australia would say that all that lies behind the existence of the flower is the dreaming of the flower. It has no independent existence of its own outside of what its conception of it is in the dreaming. Outside of that, it is all its relations to that which in a composite sense constitutes the prerequisite for its existence. Earth, soil, sun, heat, minerals, clouds, rain, etc., and therefore the flower is also part of all these dependencies in the dreamtime, the unknown background which is at the same time a not yet existing potentiality, or emptiness for an undeveloped consciousness. But an overall prerequisite together with all its parts of dependencies for each individual flower. Something that applies to all existence. Everything is related to everything else through what are the conditions for its potential emergence. Nothingness or emptiness is the experience we have when we are not aware of, or are attentive to the background of the conditions that enable the emergence of each individual existence through the parts of which they are composed, and what we fall back on when our minds are all over the place and we need to find our mental balance. We are all the ancestors of a dependent origination and they are in us. All the time. We are empty without them. Everything is a conceptual continuation of everything it is composed of. Nothingness becomes frightening to the maturing mind when the spiritual or inspirational part of the psyche does not also observe the relationships they depend on to form the mental concepts they create their contexts from, but rather becomes undevelopedly stuck in a conditioned conceptualization of them.