An Observation About The All Day Awareness Technique

This might be a stupid observation but it really struck me today as something very significant. Recently I've been very interested in meditation and during a zen meditation training session, the instructor talked about a type of walking meditation where you clear your mind as you are walking of all thoughts and instead focus on your senses. He said things about noticing your feet walking on the ground and stuff like that. What really struck me is that the technique sounds exactly like the all day awareness technique! This made me think a little bit more about it and to me it seems like the all day awareness technique is simply about shutting off your internal dialogue, such as in meditation, and maybe it's the same thing as the buddhist concept of enlightenment. When I say enlightenment here I'm talking more about the scientific approach to it, simply being aware in every moment and pretty much not having an internal dialogue. What are people's thoughts?