No Place to Land

Being skillful in the world means being empty of 'self' and giving confusion no place to land.  Only when we become solidified within ourselves can confusion and stupidity have a place to land, and once it's landed it begins to grow.  It grows until we can't stand our own skin, and then it blisters into such grossness that we finally begin to seek sanity. 
If we are skillful, we don't provide a warm climate for our confusion to grow, which means we see confusion for what it is, and give it no place within us to take root.  If we are suddenly insulted by somebody our normal, unskillful response is to defend ourselves...which means we first have to have a 'someone' to protect, and there has to be a ground for this insult and defensiveness to take place.
If we can realize the emptiness, the non-existence of that 'someone', we see the futility in defensiveness, and give insults, attacks, aggressions no place to land.  We are never seeing clearly when we feel insulted.  If we allow insult no place to land, we embody the nature of no-self with ease, clarity, and maybe a little fierceness.