which is better staying in present moment or being aware? How staying in the present moment(here and now) is different from awareness and mindfulness, and what according to you is better?
Good householder &quot;Son of liberty&quot;,

The Agendas of Mindfulness

Mindfulness Defined


might help, once on the path section of concentration.
Being, aware, actually means eating, eating off, burning away. If that isn't done in higher spheres, then it's just eating of ones merits.
As for the place where he might be: sati, mindfulness toward ones duties in ones relation, toward Sila, toward Generosity, toward reflecting backwards.
Keeping precepts in mind, train right there, will make the further way accessible by itself (given causes).
And right concentration has right mindfulness (remembering, keeping in mind of what is kusala) as it's prerequisite.
(And pull the hands out of your trousers, and stand straight, as such is a good sign that one prefers eating off past merits over the sati of a son of liberty)
[Note that this isn't given for stacks, exchange, other world-binding trades and gains, wrong concentration, but for exit from this wheel]