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Originally Posted by drama07  What does boredom mean? What does it mean in presence? When you feel bored, does that mean you're not in the now? This whole week I had no school, so I stayed at home bored. Didn't feel like doing anything due to laziness and procastination. Although, been reading Eckhart Tolle's The New Earth just yesterday. He says that if you cant enjoy the boredom, then just accept it. Observe the feeling of boredom inside you, he says. The ego feeds of boredom, so scare it off by observing the feeling. What does it all mean? I still feel bored  |
Boredom is very prevalent in our Western society - where it is relatively easy to have the basic material comforts, so we are no longer forced to solve those problems on a daily basis as in third world countries or as in previous times.
Boredom is a mental/emotional state smack bang in the middle of the emotional/vibrational scale. Below it, you have disinterest, resentment, antagonism, apathy, anger, fear, etc. Above it, you have interest, enthusiasm, joy, etc. So, try to raise your emotional tone by finding something that interests you. Show an interest in boredom itself!
As with other states of mind, just be aware of it and don't identify with it. One method devised by Joseph Goldstein in Vipassana meditation is RAIN:
Recognize the feeling or state.
Accept it.
show an
Interest in it
do
Not identify with it
It will then pass.