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What We Assume
What is boredom, friends? A state where nothing looks interesting. Lack of creativity. A feeling of not being engaged. Nirvana? All linked together, boredom is the assumption that everything is what we assume it to be. That is the definition I will be working with. Has anyone met someone who has a perfect grasp on…
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First Symptom of Decay
Have you ever learned something without trying? In Taoism, they say that whenever you encounter resistance in something it’s because you aren’t working with its path. You aren’t working with the reality of what it is. When we are trying, are we ever anything other than bored? Most people give up trying. Which is the…
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Body Politic
Unfortunately, I’ve learned not to tell many people when I want to do something new. They’re usually judgemental. Yes. Well trained cattle are obedient cattle. Our society truly is a body politic. It acts just like a body. Ever notice a pack alpha has a rather erratic pattern of behavior, in animals at least? It’s…
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Allow Yourself
Who are the most reasonable people? Are unreasonable people prone to boredom? Those who allow themselves everything? If they allow themselves everything, will they be seen as reasonable by others? No. Though they will be to you, if you’re asking something of them for yourself. But people stop short. If you are going to allow…
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World of Echoes
I will ask you this. Can I deny myself freedom and really allow you freedom? Can you give what you don’t have? No, you cannot. If I know all about you, if I can supposedly read you like a book, have I given you any freedom? Can I give you any freedom? No, and you’ve just…
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Change Your Questions
Ever feel like you have no ideas? Yes. I feel I have no new ideas. You have all ideas. In fact, you have an endless supply of new ideas. No thinker has ever stopped thinking. You have just stopped asking. When you were a child, how did you learn things? By watching and listening, asking…
Category: Boredom
Boredom is the assumption that everything is what we assume it to be. You control by assuming. You endorse what you may have mistaken for genuine perceptions when all they are is habitual thoughts. Hell is repetition. Hell is boredom. We are meant to be receptive creatures, connected to events around us. We need stimulation for our bodies and minds to maintain healthy tone, otherwise we atrophy. The first symptom of this decay is boredom.
We are bored when we think we are unimportant, our choices unimportant. What has caused the mind to do this is veneration of the golden calf, the bull market, the dead alpha. Want to cease being bored? Don’t change your world. Change your questions.
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Ellen Parr
“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.” Richard Bach (American Writer, b.1936)