--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "eptfnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "martyboi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Well, as my Aunt used to tell me when I was bored: > > > > > > "Boredom is the sign of an undeveloped mind." > > > > i enjoyed the take on boredom by Trugpa Rinpoche. > > the Zen tradition also has some interesting views. > > > > boredom can be considered as the reaction of the > > (so-called) mind to unfulfilled expectations. > > > > wearing away of boredom by long periods of sitting > > is certainly not effortless TM. > > > > IMO,i notice that people who have completed a few sesshin > > have a calmness and degree of patience missing in long-term > > TMers. > > That being said, there are some things that are just plain boring.
"'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn--pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a million lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics, why then you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood or spend fifty years learning to being to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics until it is time to learn to plough.'" Merlin, in "The Once and Future King," by T.H. White ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
