The Feel of One Thing

Hold one ordinary object in your hands, a steel tumbler of warm water, a soft cotton dupatta, the smooth wooden bead of a mala. Close your eyes. Let the whole field of attention pour into the touching, the temperature, the weight, the surface, the small movements of skin against skin or skin against thing. Do not name what you feel. Just feel it, as completely as a child feels a new toy. The hands have been touching all day. This is the first time the mind has been with them.