Interesting to hear meditation described this way—gap. I’ve followed (as a neophyte) the works of Thich Nhat Hanh, and if asked I would say he describes meditation as a practice of focus. Not that I see any incompatibility with the idea of gap in meditation. I quite like it.

Also interesting is the notion of gap as I hear it used in psychology to describe post-traumatic stress.

In the first case the gap is too quick. In the last, it’s too long.

Also, in literature, another definition describes irony as having a “gap”.

“Gap” is obviously polysemous in these applications, but contain the same notion of spacing (which is also critical in music and art!).