Meditation in Action
Meditation in action means that we take the sense of inner peace and presence that we've developed while sitting on the cushion out into the world, into everyday activity.
This involves being, not talking about being or thinking about it, but being itself. It means acting spontaneously and authentically, bypassing our storehouse of tangled and self-perpetuating concepts. Try to dis-identify with the thought-producing busy brain and abide just behind it (or under it or beyond it, just not IN it) and learn to rely instead on another type of consciousness. Most people find that is easier to locate this type of underlying, pervasive consciousness during silent sitting meditation than while engaged in activity. One thing to remember is that this consciousness is there in everyone all the time. We don't need to build it up like we would a set of muscles we'd need to run a marathon. What we learn on the cushion is to STOP doing a number of things (like thinking we're our busy brain or our afflictive emotions) that prevent us from realizing this underlying consciousness as our (and everyone's) true nature. Once we discover our essence, we find that it is also everyone's essence and so our sense of separation and isolation disappears. Instead of living with an ongoing hum of anxiety, we're filled with a sense of love, compassion and wisdom.
When we relax our mind enough to act from our underlying consciousness, we do not fuzz out into a sort of lotus-eaters blissful cloud. Instead, we are more focused and wise. All we have to do is to "remember," to pay attention, to not get caught up in our story-line or concepts or ongoing fears about the world that are based in the past or the future.
In the words of Ram Dass: "Be here now" or, as the Tibetan meditation master Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche used to say in his funny English, "What doing, do!"
Helpful books: The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle; Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa