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tastes, but we should contemplate whether we want to be attached. This is contemplation.
Therefore, try it tomorrow. If the taste of the food that enters our mouth is not to our liking, try making the mind unburdened, then the food can enter easily and comfortably. Any food that we enjoy eating, experience how that deliciousness ceases. What emerges after the deliciousness cease? Wilfully contemplate while chewing, chewing. This is experiencing tastes.
Now, the contemplation of the emergence-cessation phenomenon while we chew food. Take an unburdened mind and place it at the impact point of the chewing. Each impact, each impact, contemplate the emergence-cessation phenomenon. At a more re ned level, when we chew, take our mind and place it at the impact point. As we chew each mouthful, does it also impact our mind? Try it. Then, we will feel an enjoyment: The more we chew, the more we enjoy. The more we experience the phenomenon of our mind ceasing, the more resplendent our mind becomes. The more alert we will be. Observe these. This is an example of the contemplation of minor bodily movements.
All the other minor bodily movements are the same— picking up (something), touching, moving. When we are about to open the door here, as we reach out to touch the door knob, is there a cessation phenomenon? As we turn the
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