You are not practicing cessation in order to be somewhere other than where you are. Just the opposite is true: Knowing cessation means that, for the first time ever, you are able to be just where you are in this very moment, fully available and responsive. After realizing cessation, life continues to be an ever-changing stream of moments, but how you perceive and relate to the stream changes. The difference is that you are able to live wisely and be in harmony with life in this realm, however it manifests. You do what needs to be done without taking it personally or being attached to results of actions.

Dancing with Life, Chapter 16, p. 192

For your reflection: Deliberately cultivate the attitude of simply doing what needs to be done without attachment. Initially exempt those situations in your life that are most charged. Notice the feeling of equanimity that arises when you care, and yet you are not attached to the outcome. Then notice how it feels when you lose this equanimity.