One tends to think of space in terms of physical extension and location... Outer space is that virtually infinite expanse speckled with galaxies and stars separated by inconceivable distances. "Inner space" suggests a formless expanse of mind in which thoughts, mental images, memories and fantasies rise and pass away. Space seems to be the relatively permanent place where temporal events happen.
Buddhist philoshopers see space differently. They define it as the "absence of resistance." The space in a room is understood as the absence of anything that at would prevent one moving around in it... Rather than being the place where things happen, space is the absence of what prevents things from happening... In encoutering no such resistance, we are able to move about freely.
... Space is thus a metaphor of freedom.
--- Stephen Batchelor "Living with the Devil"
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