Yes. I agree. Yet, there is this: I’ve spent the last 3 years averaging around 3 hours of meditation a day. I’ve had many months with 6+ hours meditation a day. I had times when the boundary between formal practice in daily life was indeed very thin—in other words, it was relatively easy/automatic to be mindful more or less 24⁄7. Yet, in these rare times when I did not meditate at all for, say, 2 weeks (mostly because of health issues), I very quickly lose that ability to automatically be mindful throughout the day. I would guess that if I stopped meditating for a year and would not bother trying to be mindful throughout the day, my “mindfulness throughout the day” level would go back to basically zero.
Yes. I agree. Yet, there is this:
I’ve spent the last 3 years averaging around 3 hours of meditation a day. I’ve had many months with 6+ hours meditation a day. I had times when the boundary between formal practice in daily life was indeed very thin—in other words, it was relatively easy/automatic to be mindful more or less 24⁄7.
Yet, in these rare times when I did not meditate at all for, say, 2 weeks (mostly because of health issues), I very quickly lose that ability to automatically be mindful throughout the day. I would guess that if I stopped meditating for a year and would not bother trying to be mindful throughout the day, my “mindfulness throughout the day” level would go back to basically zero.