Staying in the moment

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birdyroger
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Staying in the moment

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I suppose that this is a really very personal discovery, but I just wanna share with you-all how happy I am to have discovered that staying in the moment is a very excellent boredom eradicator. In the past I found doing my hour long session to be drudgery because I was always looking at my watch and looking into the future. Now, if I just stick with staying the present moment, doing a whole hour is easy and satisfying.
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Bernie
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Post by Bernie »

I like Sam Harris' definition: "Boredom is simply the lack of paying attention." :wink:
birdyroger
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Boredom

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I like Meher Baba's definition of boredom also: Boredom is the clamor of unfulfilled desires. In any case, for our purposes here lack of paying attention is better.
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birdyroger
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Paying attention

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Usually pay attention is about something driven by some desire, often wanting to know something. Meditation would be the paying attention to absolutely Nothing/Everything.
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