Can ordinary experience count as meditation? ~ Shinzen Young

www.basicmindfulness.org/
This is part of an interview Shinzen Young did with Stephanie Nash in January 2009. The purpose of this interview was to introduce people to meditation and/or to Shinzen in a more casual, talk-show type format - thus Steph is playing the role of non-meditating talk-show host while Shinzen maintains his role as insightful, innovative teacher who speaks from deep experience & wisdom.
(shot by Philip Wei)

[@maletu]

But, what makes the difference between carry-over and no carry-over? HOW would he coach for that?

[@maletu]

OK, elevating base level of focus/concentration a criterion for meditation. What about elevating base level(s) of sensory clarity and/or equanimity as criteria? Meditation-on-a-cushion has the same issue as art/sport: its goal is not to become really good sitting still with eyes shut, but to transform life... He states two differences of approach: practicing the art "...in a way that re-trains one's ordinary perceptions." (How?) And, with someone pointing out the possibility of carryover.

[@ijikayuto2950]

Yet one has to sit to enhance ordinary life into an extraordinary one! It's seems paradoxes but that's how it is