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each shake ceases. Does it flash then disappear, flash then disappear, or does it move continuously? These are the minor bodily movements that we can contemplate.
When water touches our face, it feels cold. As the coldness emerges, how does it disappear, how does it cease? Does the coldness feel like a sheet or does it feel prickly? These are all phenomena within the minor bodily movements that we need to contemplate, if we want our awareness to be continuously present. Now, when we eat, what is the target for contemplation? When we contemplate while we chew, we do it to place our awareness at the same place as the chewing phenomenon only? Or, do we do it so that we will not be attached to the food flavor? So that we will not be attached to the flavor, correct? Therefore, whatever food is provided, we will not have the urge to complain. Any food is okay. Bland is okay. Does bland food have any flavor? (A practitioner answers: No). Are you sure? If there is no flavor, how do you know that it is bland?
Similarly, when we experience emptiness and we say there is nothing. In reality, there is emptiness, correct? When our mind is empty, we say our mind has nothing at all. The reason we say there is nothing is because there are no phenomena to burden it. This is what we overlook, correct? This is the real natural conditions that emerge. If we used to be able to contemplate the inflate-deflate phenomenon, then we would feel that the inflate-deflate