On Boredom

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Boredom is one of the great sufferings in life (largely unacknowledged I think!). Decided yesterday (after 20yrs of filling my bored moments thinking abt it) that isn't it just a type of greed, coming after an more exciting period of time has ceased?
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Alva Gosson The mistake all addicts make is to be motivated to recreate the high when maybe the best approach is just to go thru the withdrawal? Needless add an economic spin to that ;)
September 23 at 10:44am · Like ·  1 person
Alva Gosson Now i got my answer i'm bored ;)
September 23 at 10:46am · Like ·  1 person

Jerry Cloony what about less thinking and more doing Alva !?
September 23 at 12:16pm · Like ·  1 person

Jeremy Edwards Boredom is a state of mind. If something's become boring it's no longer fun. And when it's not fun it's time to stop doing it. One of the one-liners in quality assurance ...
September 23 at 12:53pm · Like
Alva Gosson Hi Jerry I'm sitting on the toilet in the middle of a 60mile cycle how much more doing do you want :) you know i'm only going to think of an answer to that ;) I take a Tao approach at mo that doing is really non-doing if you look closely. Certainly whenever i do anything i realise i depend entirely on other people and the 'doing' wasn't mine anyway + sun 'doing' a gr8 job drying my washing today ... The world goes around thats abt all we can say. + i just 'did' some thinking so done even more :)
September 23 at 3:05pm · Like ·  1 person
Alva Gosson Jerry u just reminded me of my new year resolution which wasn't to 'do' anything spectacular (that is just ego) but rather to harmonise between the worlds around me... Not 'done' that at all! Still 1/4 yr to go!
September 23 at 3:18pm · Like ·  1 person

Jerry Cloony hehehe !!! Just get on with it and don't share you sticky mobile phone with anyone. hahaha !!!
September 23 at 3:37pm · Like
Alva Gosson Eco-friendly home made anti-theft paint ;) Sorry there was a purpose to being so frank it was to highlight the difference between the base nature of reality and doing and the more sublime realm of thought.
September 24 at 1:17am · Like ·  1 person
Alva Gosson Indulge me here this interests me a lot! A visit to the toilet is preceded by some sense of urgency and desire for something, and a process which leads to some satisfaction and the evacuation of something which the digestive processes have made. So it is with thinking itself, tho Socrates prefered the analogy of child birth... At risk of suggesting he was talking shit perhaps, 4 which he was killed anyway ;) anyway was digesting this in bed this morning and now i give birth to these ideas ->
September 25 at 8:09am · Like
Alva Gosson themselves BUT, and this is the point, the process of having these ideas IS NOT the idea itself any more than a baby IS the birth, or a shit IS the pooing -> therefore i can't think abt thought itself as it happens real time! So there is the distinction between what a thought is about and a thought itself and they CAN'T be the same... I call that SRH-it's called Non-Identity in the books. So buddha asks us to go to the toilet and be the pooing not the poo, and be the thinking and not t thought.
September 25 at 8:35am · Like
Alva Gosson Problem with ego, property and Capitalism is that it protects and values the poo more than the pooing, and it is the poo which becomes marketed and fetishised by the customer rather than the industry and the skill of its pooers. So you have worthless shiters in the streets seeking to buy poos that they think are worth something. Bad mistake!
September 25 at 8:41am · Like
Alva Gosson Interesting cos most of the time we think that with enough doing, working, living, shopping, thinking, scientific investigating, pooing we WILL have sometime to show for ourselves when actually we ARE those things.