Vipassana all day (including working and driving). It's important to look at life and retreat as not different because there are lots of desires and aversions off retreat which is a perfect opportunity to practice. Unless something unpleasant or pleasant arose in the school of hard knocks my sitting meditation wouldn't bring up enough real scenarios that could bother me because sitting meditation is like a safe cocooned world which the real world is not. Practice when someone cuts you off in traffic. I haven't gotten really angry on the road in years. It seems so pointless now. When people bump into each other on the sidewalk they simply say "excuse me, sorry". When people cut each other off at high speeds on the road the stakes are higher so the response tends to be "f*&% you you mother*&%$#@!"

When there are about to be arguments you want to be as present as possible. When you get criticism (especially in front of other people) you need to be as present as possible. When people criticize you and you are present you can tell if the criticism is logical or not. You don't have to be as defensive. That's the real practice. The sitting meditation practice is only good for the ruminations that appear and interfere with your meditation. Those preoccupations are the little clinging attachment scripts in your mind that you have to look at carefully. You want to be present when problems occur in the moment. My reaching the 4th jhana had more to do with so much vipassana practice more than pure concentration. I think I even touched at the 5th jhana by accident while noting. Pure concentration to develop the jhana factors is a form of repression. To allow reactivity to arise and pass away without adding conceptual fuel to it brings greater concentration.