Rich -:
Is it possible to make insight progress while just walking around the street and doing whatever you do day by day? If so, how? What should your priorities be?
For example should you be noting all the time? Is it even possible to really note experience while performing complex day to day tasks (like writing an essay, for example).
Don't reply unless you've actually had real significant insights in daily practice.
Thanks,
Rich
There is only way you will find out what works and that is by experimenting your arse off. Priorities should be whatever gets you paying attention to the field of experience (what is happening for this mind/body organism from moment to moment via sight, sound, touch-within and surface, taste, smell and thought) continuously. It is very possible and I would say vital to take one's practice into all or as many avenues of life if one wishes to seriously change the baseline of one's ongoing experience of living, for the better. Momentum in practice means taking practice from formal sitting times and allowing it to infect, seep into and establish itself into non-formal sitting times (daily life). It is not neccessary to 'note' all the time, though if you can, simply note a selection of the field of experience, it might make it easier. You could
mentally note a couple of times per minute the current 'mind state'. This is enough to still continue momentum in my experience. Simply noting 2 times per minute the current mind state. Happiness, sadness, curious, agitation, searching, wanting, interested, depression, anger, calm, peaceful, fear, etc. etc. When sitting formally, it may be easier to be more inclusive of all aspects of the field of experience when noting, but out and about, one has to pay attention to responsibilities and oncoming cars when crossing the street. But the occasional paying attention and recognition of the current mind state shouldn't be too hard to continue non-stop during the day. The hard part is simply making it the new habit. once it becomes established as something the mind simply does at all times, then one may notice, that one is noting all the time regardless of what is noted. And maybe 'noting labels' will not be so necessary. baby steps first. Establish the practice, then experiment with being more inclusive.
When out and about, figure out what continues momentum , and if that is by narrowing what is noted and paid attention to, so be it. Experiment and see what works for you. You can mix it up when and how you want as long as
'paying attention' to what is happening right now is the theme, noting or not noting.
http://thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/yogi-toolbox-gathering-momentum-at-work.htmlNick