The perception of infinite space is how the mind grasps emptiness as a quality of nothingness. So it becomes emptiness by deduktion which is how mind relate to it. I recon the process itself out of observing it as beyond mind means lack of permanent content. To handle it the mind uses image-generals to avoid recursion by compression.
Trying to move a little bit further to the direct experience, it is perception. To avoid image-generals we can only observe appearance without dualism and cause and effect. It becomes a perspective from which consciousness gets its content from the mind.
To clarify, this perspective is like an empty stage we look at which appear to consciousness when the mind react to something. The energy of that reaction in itself is the perspective generating consciousness. So from this perspective the energy of our reaction that creates consciousness and make it expand by picking upp the energy released by its encounter with the stage, is what creates development and in itself a kind of perception, or image-general of time and of change.
It is precisely the habitual or conditioned experiences, when they encounter the stage that is what is generating a special kind of echo that nullifies them, by which they then come to dissolve. But the feedback loop created by this is what in turn generates the insight, and the relief that is emerging from this perspective is then returning back to observing the stage itself again. This transformative feedback loop isn’t just a relief, it is life in its purest possible form of comprehension, built into this perspective. As it also is what generates change and the perception of time. Since to be able for life and consciousness to develop it needs to grasp and accumulate the energy that was accompanying the illumination extracted from the nullification of our habitual and conditioned mind. This is what we all are mapping out from the very bloodstream of a living, awakening ”dark matters” of kosmos. The ”art” is to try to maintain the connection to the ”stage”, the emptiness where our conditioning is melted down and recycled into its raw, illuminating mental fuel. When we dissolve a recursion, large amounts of cognitive and emotional energy are released. If we don’t channel it somehow, the mind will quickly build new habits to lock it back in. This is the theme of my life. I try to keep the dampers open. Because I see what else happens if I don’t all around me. But it has never been something of a choice. The stage has always been there.
Another point of observation. The constant change, do have a kind of overlapping quality where the quality of eternity as a concept of emptiness come in. That is transformation. This makes the ever-changing nature of reality having the quality of image-generals that with recursion have common themes or patterns over time as they appear to consciousness. So the patterns of energy, or mandalas in a tibetan perspective, are sort of pre-functioning conditions of this energy that has once formed in a mind in its encounter with the emptiness, and then it has been transferred into a consciousness to be continuously overlapped as an image-general that over time has become a reoccurring conditioning of the mind. Like a mathematical fractal, or its occurrence in nature. A kind of loopback to themselves regardless of when a mind is perceiving them. Reality becomes our translation of this overlapping feature of our encounter with emptiness. Since eternity is a quality or label we use for the uninterrupted law of change itself, and it actually refers to the patterned image-generals of all potential reality. Then reality in its widest sense, its ”grand structure”, becomes this feedback loop of image-generals emerging in a single minds timeline in relation to the total field of energy containing the mental accumulation of every instance where the universe have manifest itself as reality.