'Living in the moment' just means not daydreaming – a mind attending to what I'm doing rather than idly thinking about other things. The people who do it best, in my experience, are the elderly. They are in pain from a failing body and in fear of a failing mind and so have no choice but to give the present their full attention. As long as the pains and the boredom don't turn them into moaners then I much prefer their company. We all live in the moment when we are being entertained: an exciting movie, sport, sex, a natter with a friend, a massage (of body or ego). The skill is to be similarly engrossed in the simple now (this moment bleeding into the next) whilst doing something as tedious and boring as seated meditation. It doesn't mean that I never think. It just means that I don't have to think. I have it perfectly in my power to turn off my thinking mind and listen deeply to the present moment when that is appropriate. And that, it turns out, is most of the time.