Awareness & Meditation

I am still digesting the following thought from Lama Surya Das, "Awakening the Buddha Within":

"Meditation is about bringing awareness to whatever is, in the present moment. It is about knowing reality. In meditation we bring awareness to everything, including our thoughts and feelings. We are cultivating present moment-to-moment awareness. We want to be conscious, awake, and aware --- not oblivious. Because of our meditation training, we will be better able to notice and appreciate the flowers coming through the cracks in the sidewalk. We will be better able to find joy in the children playing at the beach with their tiny shovels and plastic pails ( p. 309)."

This seems to blend meditation training with post-meditation training in a very powerful way. I am reminded that the Buddha said the objects of meditation were the body, thoughts and emotions, outer phenomnena, and events.