KG..who are you oh enlightened one....?...merle
AKA - Gilding the cage.
Seeing meditation as better than not meditating, attaining samadhi
better than not attaining samadhi, etc. Discrimination. Valuing
certain actions and states over others, identifying with them.
Investing yourself in them. Having intention to increase the ones
you value, with expectations enough of this brings fruition.
Ordinary mind.
As you say, if that's where you're at, and what you enjoy, by all
means keep smelting that fool's gold and applying it with all your
heart. It resonates, so keep at it. This all points, so go wherever
it appears to point. Doing or not doing, both point out the
attachment to doer-ship - so doing well/what appears right is a
great fall back plan while that sort of relation plays out.
As if you have a choice! *L*
When this sort of relation can no longer be sustained, the
appearances may or may not change. Practices may or not go on. You
may teach others to gild, as others have taught you, with or without
such realization. This can only appear to help or hinder when you
see it so. A matter of relation. Seeing Eightfold path as a
self-improvement plan (plan B - keeps the seekers out of trouble),
or an expression of realized being.
KG
PS - The Three Poisons - which I could updates as Intention,
expectation, and false belief in a self to do so - reveal the Four
Noble Truths to be a koan - not a calling - a riddle without answer
- a key to 'unlock' the gateless gate... That Buddha fellow was
quite clever. People miss this seeking something else.
