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the face, or just the impact point? Just the impact points. The impact feels like a strand, like a spot—the feeling is periodic. This is experiencing the touching phenomenon. When water touches the face, it feels cold then immediately disappears into an empty space. This is experiencing without the sense of “self”.
Therefore, we can always contemplate minor bodily movements. When drinking water—try it—experience where we swallow the water into? Do we swallow into an empty space? This is what we can experience. When brushing our teeth, make our mind unburdened; place this unburdenness into the mouth. Then, move our hand, shift our hand—experience the touching phenomenon, the impact, the impact movement—where is it? Does it emerge in an empty space? This is the impact point that we can experience, that we can contemplate.
Now, when we chew food, how do we contemplate? In contemplating natural conditions while eating—as I have said before: Scrutinize before one eats (for laymen), scrutinize before one eats (bhunjati—for monks). We can scrutinize in the Pali Language, or we can scrutinize in the Thai Language. Why do we need to scrutinize? This is so that we will not be enamored with the tastes of food; so that we will not be attached to the tastes of food—how do we do that? This is not saying that we should not perceive the tastes of food—totally different! Not being attached