Day One Hundred Seventy Seven

I wonder why I cannot stay in meditative absorption, or in the short term, even deepen it. I sense an entire world of physical and mental distractions of the past and present that wait below the surface of meditative activity. Yet it is the best place to be, the only place, the place where distractions come up and fade. My other world is where meditation comes up and fades. Choice is present. Hindrances are here to be encountered or avoided. These are the worlds of thought.