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However real practice begins when you can meditate and practice the Noble Eight Fold Path in any situation. That can be on a bus to work, shopping for food, on retreat or on the death bed

I couldn't agree more. Practice is, by all means, day to day and in every moment. When you look at it that way, you will realize just how much more work we still have to do because we still have a lot of conflicts and friction in a lot of areas in our day to day lives rather than when we sit in a quiet place, within our comfort zones.