Introduction
I’m not too sure if boredom is an ego or some kind of
negative internal state. Either way it is not of the consciousness or essence.
Whichever one it is, it is worth investigating, as one of its
major properties is to use other egos for its purpose. Thus providing a
constant impetus for their manifestation.
Boredom
Boredom is a kind of inner void or emptiness. It is a kind
of apathy combined with a kind of unhappiness.
It is associated with laziness and pride. The “can’t be
bothered” and “I don’t feel like it” attitudes in boredom come from laziness, and
the inconformity and “nothing is good enough” or “what I have in front of me in
not good enough – boring!” attitudes come from pride.
Cause of Boredom
Things don’t make us bored, it is more that boredom comes
from within. It is due to our lack of consciousness.
On the surface boredom seems to be due to that pride and
laziness mentioned above, if we go beyond these two factors we find that emptiness,
and now diving into that emptiness we find that it is due to a lack of
consciousness.
The consciousness is the novel, the new and the enlightening
discovery of the meaning of the most mundane things. Remember how Jesus
marvelled at the whiteness of the front tooth of a dead dog by the street.
Uses Other Egos
The function of boredom seeing it an ego, is to bring to us
the newness which if we had our consciousness it would bring to us. Boredom tries
to do this using different egos and this can be dangerous. As the bible says: “idle
hands are the devil’s workshop”.
Function of Boredom
Boredom tries to bring to us the new, the novel, the
interesting, the sensational, basically all that the consciousness brings us.
It tries to substitute the new discovery, fulfilment and happiness of the
consciousness, and to do this it brings the egos that specialise in this,
however they specialise in this through matter. These egos are gluttony, lust
and greed. There could be other ones but these are the main three. Lust of
course is the most dangerous, followed by greed then gluttony.
The most interesting thing is that this can seem like very
logical and very normal and it is almost like we are consciously opting to do
this. It is a strong kind strange identification, different than when we
identify with other egos. Fixing boredom with other egos for some reason it does
not seem as wrong. But the results how the opposite very quickly.
What Happens When Alone
To see how true this is in your case just observer what you
do when you find yourself at home alone and you are bored. You may eat new and
interesting things or things that you like, you may try to watch interesting or
sensational things on TV or the internet, you may go into lust, you try to meet
new people in person or online, you may try to acquire things by shopping,
downloading etc. etc.
Idle Hands are the Devil’s Workshop
This ego is quite dangerous, we never know how many wrong
things have been done just o remove boredom. Wrong things are exciting and
different for most people and hence it is the perfect way to relieve boredom,
but it is the wrong way, the resulting karma will tell us.
Boredom Shows Us Interesting Things About Ourselves
Basically, boredom ends up acting to bring us new pleasures
from whatever source, the sources are basically the pleasure seeking that in us
are the strongest. So then boredom shows us which egos are the strongest in us.
Line them up and fire away!
Remedy
When bored we have to seek our consciousness to fill that
void itself. When that happens we feel entirely different.
A way to bring the consciousness is to focus on it, or focus
on the now, or look inwards and make an effort be immersed in the inner silence
that dwells within you.
The mantra GATE GATE
PARA-GATE PARA-SAM-GATE BODI SWAHA is so effective at quietening down the mind
thus allowing our essence to appear and fill the void of boredom.
End (1161).
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