Similes for the experience of touch and contact (step 3): musician practicing an instrument; a person sawing a log; gatekeeper guarding arrivals and departures; an embroiderer threading a needle. Subdivisions of the emergence of the nimitta and nama rupa also presented as the "whole body".
When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that is our true being.
