Question: Once in a while I always feel bored in life and I feel like nothing is important anymore as if, if I die the next moment has no meaning at all. Why am I feeling this way?
There is nothing wrong to feel this way, at least you are true to yourself and you are not trying to distract yourself with un-necessary activities.
Bored is just a result of the mind. Try to understand this. “I” am bored, who is the “I”? This “I” is just the product of the ego. The “I” is never existed. It is only built over the years beginning with having the name, the age, and the things (the master will use the “dust”) that you gained and have along your life. In real, there is no “I”.
If you understand deeper, you will see that you are running at a no-ending desire, you may be staying at a house worth half a million now, then you are aiming at a bigger house that cost double, then how about staying in a better neighborhood? Another vacation home? A home with a larger piece of land or on top of the mountain? See the ego now? Desires are without boundaries.
Think about it, you will not have the chance to feel bored if you are hungry for food or a goal that need to achieved. You are feeling bored at this moment because whatever you desired is already there and your mind has not decided on a new goal yet. With the technologies that human is having now, every human will come to this stage where the basic necessity is fulfilled then they will start to explore the reason, their journey in life. This will come sooner or later but it will come sooner for the more advance countries where there are no more worries for the basic necessity.
It is alright to feel bored and understanding of boredom is much more important than finding the next goal and running around it again. When you are bored, try to meditate on your boredom, try your best to understand it and be aware of whatever actions that you doing. Slowly, by and by you will experience the taste of life.
Meditation is a form of deep listening, listen to your inner voice. When you are silence, voices no longer exist. Then the nature flows. Don’t listen to anybody, go deep into your nature, that is the only way to find your own voice, the clearer the voice, the more you steps in the right direction.
Life journey is like swimming, you cannot teach someone swimming without bringing him to the pool or to the sea. No matter how you describe swimming to him will not help until he himself starts floating on the water.
© by Xunler at http://lifejourneyanswer.com
—The author XunLer is a disciple from a great master is practicing meditation since 1999. Self-searching is the real route of all life journey. You can find more of his work in http://lifejourneyanswer.com –
