Definitions of Space, level 1

Objects exist, but physical space is 'nothing'--nonexistence. (p. 8, TSK)

In our ordinary space, `making room' has become `making a room--lower space is like a walled enclosure. (p. 15, TSK)

The very cramped character of the `lower space' we function in tends to make us assume and encounter linear causal connections, sources, `places from', and so on. We might say that `lower space' exerts a constrictive influence, intensifying the complexity and number of events or reactions within its sphere in a manner similar to a pressure increase for contained gases. (p. 55, TSK)

Great Space is `here' in a sense. But from a certain viewpoint, that nearness of infinity is toned down to a level tolerable for a `self', a level sufficient for `here' to `be someplace'. The infinity of Great Space then unfolds as a particular world, an indefinitely-extended field of places and times populated by innumerable particulars. (p. 75, TSK)

Space is likewise no longer an empty container for things; it too has become 'personalized' as the expanse separating the self from what is desired. The self's 'here' is no longer the isolated point occupied by the 'perceiver' engaged in polar knowing, but rather a specific position adopted by the self and maintained as separate from the object of desire, which is positioned 'there'. (p. 150, LOK)

In conventional understanding, [space is] the arena for objects and for the subject to appear. Implicit in this appearance is separation between subject and objects, based on the interpretation that `I' am in space `with' objects. This separation in turn supports such fundamental distinctions as `experiencing/not-experiencing' and `doing/not-doing'. `Locatedness' in space in the `objective' sense is closely related to the positioning of the `bystander', which secures the self a place at the cost of establishing limits and excluding possibilities. (pp. 415-16, LOK)

Space is significant for us only insofar as it is available to be occupied by 'objects', things totally separate from the space that encompasses them. (p. 120, KTS)

We understand space as a vacuum. Though space is globally available--the all-pervasive domain of existence, the ground of our being--we will not take it in. We are always looking elsewhere. (p. 74, VOK)

Our usual focus on substance and identity has turned space into the nothing of non-appearance. Setting space in contrast to what has form, turning it into the simle emptiness of the vacuum, we have made it into a 'formless body': a 'thing' that has the quality of being nothing at all. Misconceiving its nature, we have made it disappear. (p. 30, DTS)