Holding the bodhi tree in his hand, it was coiled softly between his fingers. Finger-wrap soft: soft enough to wrap around your fingers. The steel that has been tempered for hundreds of times has turned into something soft that can be wrapped around your fingers. Holding the Bodhi Thousand Turns and Thousand Sorrows Wrapped Around the Fingers means holding the Bodhi in the hand and winding it softly between the fingers. It is a metaphor for becoming powerless after experiencing failure. It was later used as a metaphor for making a fiery and tough temperament become softer.