Exploring sights and sounds during meditation -- kosher or not?

[sky]

Originally Posted by RyanWind

There is nowhere to arrive to. We are already there. Our minds are amazing things that use intelligence and awareness to constantly examine the things in our box and comment on them, rearrange them, categorize them, defend them, but to seek what we are, we need to take our attention off the things in the box, the things we carry around with us, and just be.

That's the direction of progress and wisdom. To no longer make an effort to get somewhere. To see the one making the effort is not ireal. It's a creation of distraction that adds things to now that are unnecessary.

You and me exist in this moment. We are the same. We are focusing on our ideas and knowledge and comparing our knowledge with that projected from another. We are also both that which is giving energy to this creation which also can let go of all of that and just be, silent, watching that movement.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving"
Lao Tsu