Meditation helps to train and refine the mind; it helps the person who engages in meditation to concentrate and to be mindful of one`s daily activities. Everyone benefits from this training. For example, the student needs concentration while doing homework assignments. Administrators need concentration and a clear mind while running their offices. Parents need a clear mind while doing their work at home, conducting family life in a calm and peaceful manner.

Meditation helps everyone at all times to live and work effectively and successfully. Everyone wants to be happy in life. The ways to lead one`s self to real happiness and to have a peaceful life may be different, but without a peaceful, calm and clear mind, real happiness cannot be realized. Meditation can help in this regard. The Enlightened One, the Buddha said "The peaceful mind excels all other happiness." (Pali: natthi santi param sukkham)

What would happen if one worked without the right mindfulness and right concentration? The answer is simple.The work would be ineffective. For example, if one studies without mindfulness and full attention, one cannot remember the subject being studied. Consequently, a poor performance would result. As you can see, there is a role to be played by concentration and attention during study. In the same way, right understanding and insight, as worldly tools, need to be applied before starting any work. Working without mindfulness and concentration results in more harm than good. The way to apply these tools is to learn how to be aware, moment by moment in our daily activities, to know what we are doing, what we are saying and what we are thinking. Without mindfulness and concentration there is no life. We are merely "automatic pilots."