I'm with ya Rev. This is what I wished people knew more of when they go to sit and meditate. Many get so frusterated about 'not being able to stop the mind'. I try to explain it as seeing your thoughts as a parade, and as you do they move twords the perifrial regions, almost like you
can see them walking by, as with reading a book in public. You got the focus to read, but that doesn't mean you don't stop seeing movement else where.
Getting to the phenomena experiencing phenomena level of consciousness is no doubt challanging, and I wish there were more accounts of what meditation is and what you is happening, relatively speaking, versus what people think aught to be happening. That is when the guilt of being a bad meditator comes in, of which shouldn't even be thought of as that way. I realize that in some traditation you are to talk with no one other than your teacher, so there is no competition and what not, but I feel the support group connections in 'this is the best way I can explain this' would do us all good.
Like you and I talking. I always like to hear you explain why what you are talking about doesn't exist, and then is more paradoxically fun when I reply to you relative, non-existant post!
Sage