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an opportunity instead of a limitation. One can use this practice at home, in the office, travelling, speaking, cating, sitting, walking, laying down. Knowing this, one cannot complain that there is not, enough time for contemplation or formal meditation. For the same type of one-pointed concentration used in a sitting down meditation, has to be generated and applied in our busy daily life, while all the ongoing activities surround us. It is not easy, but by constant remembering and practice, we will see change taking place in our consciousness.
The benefits of this work enhances our practical life in many ways. A few of them are mentioned here: We are living more in the present moment without allowing the mind to continuously drift to past or future free of what Mahāvira described as : "one's inner enemies." There are no enemies outside --the enemies are found inside the human consciousness. Combined with conscious awareness, the work of self-transformation never fails. This is what is meant 'living in the now'. Embracing moment to moment everything that comes our way without wishing to escape, to be somewhere else, or to be with someone else,
This then becomes freedom and 'dynamic living'. By practicing living with 'conscious attentiveness' we are freeing ourselves from old and new karmic bondages and slowly emerging with a transformed spiritual consciousness.
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