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While not meditating, should life itself be a continuous meditation, like driving to work, saying driving, driving, or getting fired, saying angry, angry, etc.?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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The reason why we can't is the same reason why we're still in a life where we drive cars and get fired from jobs.

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A person who is able to do that, where they're mindful all the time, wouldn't have a job, wouldn't be driving a car most likely.

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So, in a sense, the question is another one of these conflating two issues, you know, trying to apply one thing that should be applied to another thing.

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So, you think, wow, I could never imagine being mindful all the time during my life.

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And you literally couldn't because

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The reason why you're not able to be mindful all the time is your greed, anger and delusion.

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That same greed, anger and delusion is also the reason why you're still in a life that is caught up in the world.

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Once you get free from your attachments and your confusions and delusions and views and all that,

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you'll give up that life.

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And so life becomes quite simple.

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Life becomes about right here and now.

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Now I'm sitting.

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Sitting is easy.

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Now I'm walking.

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Maybe now I'm talking, eating.

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And so it's actually not that complicated.

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Certainly doable.

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In the meantime, you're just trying to get yourself in that state, bring the meditative state to your life.

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Your life is over here with all the craziness.

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The meditative state is over here.

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You're trying to bring them together and sometimes you're able to bring them together and then they go apart.

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It's a matter of training, but eventually your life is a meditation.