We might simply notice the different sense objects as they arise: sights and sounds, smells and tastes, sensations and thoughts. Or we might emphasize the process of contact: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking. This is the moment of sense base, sense object, and consciousness all coming together. Sometimes we emphasize the knowing aspect and rest in the knowing. Here, there is less effortful directing of the mind to the object; rather, there is the practicing of a more receptive awareness, the ease of simply knowing whatever appears.
