Someone asked: when the mind rests on the Buddha image as usual, but the rest of the nervous system goes unnoticed entirely, is that still called mindfulness?

This State Arises Once the Breath and Mind Come to a Stop

Even though it may feel as though one is absorbed solely in the vision of the Buddha image, with no awareness of anything else in the body, this is still rightly called mindfulness. When the mind rests fully on the Buddha image, the sense of the coarse body simply falls away. This state arises only once the breath grows increasingly refined, to the point where the breath stops and the mind stops. Once breath and mind come to a stop, the ordinary human sense of one's own body disappears, and the mind enters the sphere of Dhamma — the Dhamma body within. Resting with the Buddha image works the very same way: the mind sinks entirely into that image alone, which is in fact a very good state to be in.