Day Two Hundred and Thirty three

Body consciousness of the stone depends on stone and body to be touching. At the same time, mind begins its process of analysis.

But body consciousness is not waiting there. It is created, made, manufactured by the stone and body touching. There is no stone to concentrate upon without body consciousness. This is a mind of touching. I'm not sure there is another mind with which to observe them. Of course, there is the idea of a mind, but it is only made up of those pieces of craving (or wholesome activity) that appear to the mind door to create this or that type of consciousness. And so there is no ultimate mind, much as I would like there to be.

There is stone, there is touch, and there is consciousness which leads to contact and then feeling. Craving muddies the waters by pulling an already insubstantial consciousness into an insubstantial story about ownership.