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Practice: ‘Dot-to-dot’ Experiment with giving a whole range of different kinds of experiences a steadiness of intimate, careful, and precise, moment-to-moment attention. Can you notice the ‘gaps’ in the experience of a ‘thing’? See if you can sustain for some time that level of mindfulness that sees the gaps. What difference does it make then in your sense of that thing? How does it feel to see this way? In your investigations, be sure to include various emotions and mind states, as well as pleasant, unpleasant, and also ‘neutral’ physical experiences involving different sense doors. (Taste, touch, and bodily sensation are particularly conducive to this kind of investigation.)