Pointing Our Minds Where We Choose

In many Buddhist traditions, meditation is very much a skill of concentration and focus: Can I point my mind where I choose to point it? Relatedly, can I build the capacity to know when my mind is somewhere that I did not choose? This meditation is all about simple targets for our minds to rest upon (sound around us, the feeling of our own posture, and the feeling of our breath), and creating the space to be able to watch what arises, and come back to a place in our minds of our own choosing.