Touching the stone and increasing concentration by contrast. With all of the distractions of mind, I find again that lumping all of those other places into one great fog and turning back to staying with one point is helpful. I have doubts about the effectiveness of the stone as one point or as an object of concentration. I let that go and turn back to feeling. Is it the whole stone or a point?
It is all that is other than that which is distracted by thought and other feelings. The feeling is subtle, hard to put into the three categories of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. But I stay here a while. I label the feeling as subtle and vague. I notice many of my attachments and how the mind picks them up. With all of that activity, meditation upon the object of concentration becomes that which is quiet and still, yet which is brought to awareness.
The stone is the only place of stillness, the only place I am not running toward or away from.
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