What is Boredom?

Boredom is the neediness for something "exciting" to happen. It's the craving for drama. It's the attachment/addiction to experiencing physical sensations. It's the desire to satisfy the physical senses. It's the wantingness to satisfy animal urges, rather than spiritual peace. It's the choosing of a temporary instant gratification, over long term well-being. Boredom is the choosing of pleasure over peace, because peace is perceived as being "boring". It's the urge to DO something in hopes of finding happiness, instead of simply BEING that something (happiness).

Boredom is the inability to accept life for what it is, as it is in this very moment. Boredom is the inability to see the beauty of the world, as it is right now. It's the unwillingness to see the perfection of what's right in front of our faces. It's the faulty judgemental egoic opinion that something is "wrong" with existence. Boredom is the absence of acceptance, and the rejection of contentness. It's the neediness to change the situation because the mind refuses to be happy with what is. Boredom is the refusal of happiness in this very moment. When the mind is needy, there always has to be something more. With boredom, things always have to be different than how they already are. Boredom is intolerance and discrimination. Boredom is the absence of love.

Boredom is the anticipation of what could be, but isn't. It's the looking forward to what doesn't exist in reality. It's the indulgence in an illusionary dream of imagination, and the escaping of reality.

Boredom is a form of anxiety and stress. Boredom determines many of our erroneous actions, and is therefore the source of much of our suffering. Boredom is a psychological problem that is best to be let go of. When one lets boredom take control of them, one is never satisfied (happy/content).

Boredom is the false notion that happiness lies outside oneself. It's born from the unawareness that happiness can simply be chosen at all moments of life, despite life's circumstances. Boredom happens because of ignorance and unconsciousness. Boredom is the result of a lack of truth. Boredom is a negativity. Boredom creates problems.

Boredom is the identification with the autonomous cellular neural functioning/activities/thinkingness of the physical brain, instead of the identification with the formless spiritual awareness that silently observes the mind's automatic functioning/thinking from an "outside" perspective.

Boredom is the worry that something is being missed out on. It's the fear of doing nothing. It's the fear of silence, or more specifically, the fear of the silence of your own mind. It's the fear that one's life will come to an end if one stops thinking. It's the fear that the "me", "myself", and "I" might die. Boredom is the fear of death because the automatic thinkingness of the mind is falsely identified as being "me".

When one takes control of the mind (lets it go), instead of being controlled by it, boredom becomes non-existent, and happiness/joy/contentness/peace then becomes permanent, instead of just temporary. When one's happiness is no longer limited to only when experiencing external phenomena, one realizes that the true source of happiness is, and always has been, found and experienced within, as a choice. Happiness is an inner choice, right here, right now, and always, no matter what life's external happenings are. The outer becomes completely irrelevant as one becomes immersed in this permanent inwardly experienced happiness/joy/bliss/ecstasy. And this profoundly ineffable bliss/ecstasy/peace is far beyond any physical sensation that one could possibly imagine (and yes, that includes sex). All that one has to do is refuse the mind's activities, and choose to be it.

Boredom can't be quenched. It can only be let go of.

Objectivity vs. Subjectivity

Thinking vs. silence.
Doer vs. observer.
Experiencer vs. watcher.
Time vs. timlessness.
Order vs. syncronicity.
Ordinary vs. miraculous.
Linear vs. non-linear.
Force vs. power.
Effort vs. effortlessness.
Struggle vs. ease.
Conflict vs. flow.
Fighting vs. harmony.
Violence vs. peace.
Strife vs. grace.
Dominate vs. benign.
Competition vs. co-operation.
Mine vs. ours.
Getting vs. giving.
Get vs. are.
Desire vs. desirelessness.
Neediness vs. non-attachment.
Controlling vs. allowing.
Pushing vs. pulled.
Individual karma vs. universal karma.
Me vs. All.
Mind vs. No-Mind
Duality vs. non-duality.
Thing vs. No-Thing.
Form vs. formlessness.
Individuality vs. Infinity.
Relativity vs. Absolute.
Irrelevancies vs. Reality.
Details vs. Essence.
Part vs. whole.

Life is a reflection of one's level of consciousness/awareness/truth/love.
So, how would you like to experience life?

Meditate on This

Silence of mind precludes the thinking activities of the mind.
Stillness precludes motion.
Formlessness precludes mental concepts of form.
No-Mind dwells prior to active mind.
Voidness precludes perceptions.
The Unmanifest lies beyond the manifest.
The Unseen resides ahead of the seen.
The Ungraspable lies beyond knowledge.
The Non-Definable precludes definitions.
The Undetectable subsists previous to the observable.
The Unmeasurable rests beyond the reach of science.
Changeless Existence precludes evolutionary change.
Shapeless Reality precludes the physical world.
The Uncreated precludes creation.
No-Thing exists before something.
The Unborn is beyond birth and death.
The Uncaused is beyond being affected.
Essence precludes substance.
Emptiness exists prior to space.
Non-locality underlies location.
Non-duality resides beyond duality.
The All precludes individuality.
Infinity is beyond all limitations.
The Absolute lies beyond relatives/relativity.
One underlies the many.
Source is the foundation of life.
The Self precludes notions of self.

Consciousness precludes mentation.
Awakeness precedes erudition.
A subtle intuitiveness lies before notions and ideas.
An innate comprehension resides prior to intellectualizing.
Epiphanies dwell prior to conceptualizing.
Insight lies in advance of perceiving.
All-Knowing Awareness precludes thinking.

No thoughts preclude thoughts of "me", "myself", "mine", and "I".
A selfless state precludes the self.
Selflessness precludes selfish thought and behaviour.
Humility exists previous to ego, vanity, and righteousness.
Full-blown acceptance exists before the formation of judgements.
Truth dwells beyond opinions and beliefs.
Love precludes self-indulgence.
Ecstatic Bliss precludes emotions.
Ineffable Joy precludes negativity.
Profound Peace lies before "you".

Epiphanies of Awareness

Do you ever experience sudden epiphanies, brilliant ideas, flashes of insight, or moments of profound genius? If not, there's only one reason - you're too caught up in your current thought processes, ideas, views, opinions, beliefs, perceptions, concepts, associations, thinkingness, and emotions.

Let them go. You may not be aware of it, but those thoughts are a major hindrance to you. Nobody can know the truth, or the next level of truth, as long as they think they already know the truth. Get out of the way, and all the unsolved riddles, mysteries, and answers of the universe will be yours. The thought and feeling of "I don't know" (humilty and egolessness at all times) will bring about radical beneficial changes.

Get out of the way. Let go. Give up. Surrender.

And whatever you do, don't take credit for those epiphanies and brilliant ideas. You did not make them happen. They happened by themselves when the mind was out of the way. They wouldn't have happened if "you" (the mind) was still occupied with it's own so-called "truth". They happened in the absence of the mind, not because of the mind. They happened in the absence of a personal individual you. They happen completely on their own without a person doing it intentionally. In fact, the mind's intentions, wishes, goals, dreams, neediness, wants, and controlism are keeping epiphanies at bay.

So, drop all intentions. Including that of experiencing epiphanies. All-knowingness comes as a result of inner silence. Silence is All-knowing.

What are epiphanies? It's the real "you" shining through. The real "you" is the All-Knowing Silent Awareness that shines forth when that which is in the way, is out of the way.

Get out of the way. Let go. Give up. Surrender.