Our issues and challenges, wheteher internal or external, seem so real and solid. With a clear and meditative insight they will seem like clouds in the sky of awareness, and as transparent and ephemeral. This happens in 3 ways. We can look directly at our stories and feelings and they appear as passing, dynamic and self-arising. Secondly we can see the gaps and spaces within and around them that show them to be less real or dense, and to take less space. Thirdly we can get a glimpse of primal impersonal basic awareness, which gives birth to all our content and stories, which then appear as empty.