Poster Boy Wrote:
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> Are you able to get yourself centered at this
> level and maintain it without confining yourself
> to one place, in a chair or on a yoga mat? Can
> you get to this level of awareness and go about
> town, having the experience as you do things?


Hallo Mark,

I understand what you’re asking. To do what you are describing I would have to have a very determined intention to do so. Normally I am like anybody else forgetting all about it and in a more or less automatic way doing my things. Especially when I am among or around other people, like going into town. Then sometimes, very unexpected, it can just “hit me” and then there I am observing the situation I find myself in at that particular moment. Sometimes very enlightening, sometimes very disturbing.
These kind of experiences lead me to the conclusion, that enlightenment ( or what you called “to be centered at this level”) is not something to achieve or accomplish, but something that can and needs to be maintained or supported each and every single moment. At least that is the stage I find myself in in this period of my life (a kind of transition stage if you wish). It is not meant to say that it can never be a permanent state, but that is not where I am right now.
Since you were asking this question: would you mind sharing your experience(s) in this respect?

All the best,
Naveen.