Fox, the way you describe what you mean by "emptiness" pretty much what I defined in my dictionary as "acceptence".
When you accept things for they are, not what as you want them to be, you will began to truly appreciate them.
Another word for it is detachment - when you're being and thinkng out of the box.
Here's a good article on Attachment by a lady in the Philipines named Joan:
Attachment is a poison to the mind that could lead to greed, lust, depression, jealousy and envy. It is when you want something so much that you become afraid you are going to lose it or not going to get it. It could be attachments to objects, people and results.
Attachment steams out from the thought of "lack". Of not having enough. Of the thought that there will never be anything like it in the future. Well you must remember that there maybe never be anything like it, but there is definitely something better than it.
When you become attached to anything or anyone you will be so blinded by it that you will never learn to appreciate the good things that has happened to you and you will be blocking all the good things that is suppose to happen to you.
And the paradox of it all is that, ATTACHMENT is the same reason why your desires will elude you. You want something so bad that you are so afraid you will not going to get it.
You keep imagining all the worst things that could happen why you are not going to get it. You keep feeding all these thoughts with the powerful emotion that is fear and so your dire imaginings come to pass.
It is like being caught in a "riptide". A riptide occurs when two opposing currents meet. It will pull you from side to side and under. You will be so afraid you get drowned that you will fight the forces pulling you, you will get so exhausted and indeed drowned.
The trick when being caught in a riptide is to "relax and go where the waves take you and it will take where you want to go -- to a calm part of the sea". Don't struggle and you will soon get freed.
When doing a spell, you are sending your desire out to the universe. When you are so attached to the result you want, you will be struggling inside. You will end up sending conflicting emotions. Emotions from a desired fulfilled and your fear that your desire will not be fulfilled. They will just cancel each other out and nothing happens or whichever is the strongest will win out. In this case I am sure the fear will win out.
In order to erase attachment from your mind, you have to maintain the thought that the universe will definitely bring you whatever you want there is no doubt about it or if it is too much for you, just believe that something so much better is going to happen to you.
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