What is Ma in Japanese?

Ma (間) is a fundamental Japanese concept representing “negative space,” a “pause,” or “the space between” all things. It signifies an intentional void or interval that gives meaning, shape, and balance to form and time, acting as a crucial element in aesthetics, architecture, design, and daily communication.
We speak, we write, we jump up and down, we do crazy things in life, we even shout, but for what?
So that people notice us, we want to be recognized.
And in exchange, what do we get?
Others’ recognition, that’s all.
We are hungry for recognition, why?
Because it feeds our Ego.
But…
What do we do to recognize ourselves?
Nothing; we don’t care to know ourselves, who we are, what is within us?
We feel that others’ recognition is all we came here for, and that’s all is the purpose of this life.
We are busy making noise, but we never care to notice the silence, which is the medium in which our noise arises, stays for a while, and disappears back into it.
That silence we fail to hear.
Meditation is all about listening to that silence.
When we describe a room, we describe its furniture, walls, floor, and people in it, etc.
But do we ever describe the emptiness that made all that possible to exist within it in the first place?
As Abhijit said, this silence, the Shunya state, is so “ordinary” that we don’t even notice it, even though it is there.
We are always in the process of doing things that will make us look “Extraordinary “, but we never know the “ordinary “.
This “ordinary” silence is Ma, with or without the noise.