Boredom is the neediness for something "exciting" to happen. It's the craving for drama. It's the attachment/addiction to experiencing physical sensations. It's the desire to satisfy the physical senses. It's the wantingness to satisfy animal urges, rather than spiritual peace. It's the choosing of a temporary instant gratification, over long term well-being. Boredom is the choosing of pleasure over peace, because peace is perceived as being "boring". It's the urge to DO something in hopes of finding happiness, instead of simply BEING that something (happiness).

Boredom is the inability to accept life for what it is, as it is in this very moment. Boredom is the inability to see the beauty of the world, as it is right now. It's the unwillingness to see the perfection of what's right in front of our faces. It's the faulty judgemental egoic opinion that something is "wrong" with existence. Boredom is the absence of acceptance, and the rejection of contentness. It's the neediness to change the situation because the mind refuses to be happy with what is. Boredom is the refusal of happiness in this very moment. When the mind is needy, there always has to be something more. With boredom, things always have to be different than how they already are. Boredom is intolerance and discrimination. Boredom is the absence of love.

Boredom is the anticipation of what could be, but isn't. It's the looking forward to what doesn't exist in reality. It's the indulgence in an illusionary dream of imagination, and the escaping of reality.

Boredom is a form of anxiety and stress. Boredom determines many of our erroneous actions, and is therefore the source of much of our suffering. Boredom is a psychological problem that is best to be let go of. When one lets boredom take control of them, one is never satisfied (happy/content).

Boredom is the false notion that happiness lies outside oneself. It's born from the unawareness that happiness can simply be chosen at all moments of life, despite life's circumstances. Boredom happens because of ignorance and unconsciousness. Boredom is the result of a lack of truth. Boredom is a negativity. Boredom creates problems.

Boredom is the identification with the autonomous cellular neural functioning/activities/thinkingness of the physical brain, instead of the identification with the formless spiritual awareness that silently observes the mind's automatic functioning/thinking from an "outside" perspective.

Boredom is the worry that something is being missed out on. It's the fear of doing nothing. It's the fear of silence, or more specifically, the fear of the silence of your own mind. It's the fear that one's life will come to an end if one stops thinking. It's the fear that the "me", "myself", and "I" might die. Boredom is the fear of death because the automatic thinkingness of the mind is falsely identified as being "me".

When one takes control of the mind (lets it go), instead of being controlled by it, boredom becomes non-existent, and happiness/joy/contentness/peace then becomes permanent, instead of just temporary. When one's happiness is no longer limited to only when experiencing external phenomena, one realizes that the true source of happiness is, and always has been, found and experienced within, as a choice. Happiness is an inner choice, right here, right now, and always, no matter what life's external happenings are. The outer becomes completely irrelevant as one becomes immersed in this permanent inwardly experienced happiness/joy/bliss/ecstasy. And this profoundly ineffable bliss/ecstasy/peace is far beyond any physical sensation that one could possibly imagine (and yes, that includes sex). All that one has to do is refuse the mind's activities, and choose to be it.

Boredom can't be quenched. It can only be let go of.

Thinking vs. silence.
Doer vs. observer.
Experiencer vs. watcher.
Time vs. timlessness.
Order vs. syncronicity.
Ordinary vs. miraculous.
Linear vs. non-linear.
Force vs. power.
Effort vs. effortlessness.
Struggle vs. ease.
Conflict vs. flow.
Fighting vs. harmony.
Violence vs. peace.
Strife vs. grace.
Dominate vs. benign.
Competition vs. co-operation.
Mine vs. ours.
Getting vs. giving.
Get vs. are.
Desire vs. desirelessness.
Neediness vs. non-attachment.
Controlling vs. allowing.
Pushing vs. pulled.
Individual karma vs. universal karma.
Me vs. All.
Mind vs. No-Mind
Duality vs. non-duality.
Thing vs. No-Thing.
Form vs. formlessness.
Individuality vs. Infinity.
Relativity vs. Absolute.
Irrelevancies vs. Reality.
Details vs. Essence.
Part vs. whole.

Life is a reflection of one's level of consciousness/awareness/truth/love.
So, how would you like to experience life?

Have problems in your life?

Radiate acceptance, forgiveness, kindness, respect, compassion, happiness, joy, peace, and love to yourself, or to the whole of humanity. Accept life joyfully for what it is, no matter what it is, and just be love, because that is the one and only solution to your problems. You see, your problems only exist because there is an absence of acceptance and love. When you are love, you are utterly whole and complete as you are, and nothing else matters. With love, abolutely nothing else is needed. Love is the answer to all things.

Do you ever experience sudden epiphanies, brilliant ideas, flashes of insight, or moments of profound genius? If not, there's only one reason - you're too caught up in your current thought processes, ideas, views, opinions, beliefs, perceptions, concepts, associations, thinkingness, and emotions.

Let them go. You may not be aware of it, but those thoughts are a major hindrance to you. Nobody can know the truth, or the next level of truth, as long as they think they already know the truth. Get out of the way, and all the unsolved riddles, mysteries, and answers of the universe will be yours. The thought and feeling of "I don't know" (humilty and egolessness at all times) will bring about radical beneficial changes.

Get out of the way. Let go. Give up. Surrender.

And whatever you do, don't take credit for those epiphanies and brilliant ideas. You did not make them happen. They happened by themselves when the mind was out of the way. They wouldn't have happened if "you" (the mind) was still occupied with it's own so-called "truth". They happened in the absence of the mind, not because of the mind. They happened in the absence of a personal individual you. They happen completely on their own without a person doing it intentionally. In fact, the mind's intentions, wishes, goals, dreams, neediness, wants, and controlism are keeping epiphanies at bay.

So, drop all intentions. Including that of experiencing epiphanies. All-knowingness comes as a result of inner silence. Silence is All-knowing.

What are epiphanies? It's the real "you" shining through. The real "you" is the All-Knowing Silent Awareness that shines forth when that which is in the way, is out of the way.

Get out of the way. Let go. Give up. Surrender.

Unless you are in this very moment, and every other fleeting moment, at least striving to be, loving, compassionate, peaceful, happy, content, joyful, accepting, forgiving, respectful, conscientious, kind, calm, serene, tolerant, patient, benign, neutral, unattached, responsible, honest, sincere, truthful, trustworthy, generous, grateful, modest, humble, egoless, selfless, courageous, optimistic, hopeful, and positive, you aren't solving any of your problems, nor the problems of the rest of the world.

Only those who give up and let go of stressful, negative, resentful, selfish, egotistical, righteous thoughts and emotions have a peaceful mind, and only those who have a peaceful mind are contributing to world peace.

"There is no path to peace. Peace is the path." - Ghandi
"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love. This is an unalterable law." - Buddha

How your mind works determines how you live your life. It determines whether you are at conflict with the world, or at peace with it. It determines what and how you eat, how you react to all situations, what you believe you are capable of, and what your limitations are. It determines what you can and cannot do without, what you do and don't do, what you are attracted to, and what you are afraid of. It determines what you consider to be important and unimportant, what you do with your life, and what you think life is about. It determines whether you blame or forgive, hate or love, and it determines your level of inner happiness, joy, and completion.

How your mind works determines literally everything about your life, and the relationship you have with the rest of the world.

Absolutely everything is a perception (that can be changed), and absolutely everything stems from the mind. It's not what's going on "out there" in the external world that matters. It's what's going on "in here" in your mind and heart that matters. Everything has to do with the ingrained programming of your mind.

Most people live their lives with their mind on complete autopilot, without even realizing that they have the ability to take complete control of it. These people basically live their lives in a state of sleep, completely unaware that they can change the way their mind works.

They believe they are at the mercy of how their mind works, and that their capabilities are limited. They think "this is how I am, and I can't do anything about it", when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Changing the ingrained flow of energy through the brain's cellular neural pathways (thought processes) is nothing more than a choice. The more you purposefully think and perceive in more positive ways, the easier it becomes.

Start by questioning society's beliefs and practices, and especially the validity of the workings of your own mind. What we think and believe to be true, is very often far from the truth, even if that opinion is held by the masses of society. The automatic consequence of that falsehood then, or even of limited relative truths, is what creates all of our suffering, individually and collectively.

So if you're tired of suffering, no matter what the shape or form of that suffering might be, seek truth, live that truth, and be that truth.

Why? Because the truth is the answer to every problem that ever has and ever will exist.

Celery is my friend
Healthy and low in calories
I could eat it to no end
Provides loads of cellular energy

Some like it with cheez whiz
Some with processed PB
Not so healthy this is
And so it's not for me

Perhaps if it were organic cheese
And without plastic trans fats
It would do more to please
Thanks, but I'll take it without formats

Some don't care about health
Controlled by their senses they are
Searching for external happiness and wealth
They believe it's afar

But if they would just look within
And realize happiness is a choice
Only then they might begin
To renounce and rejoice

Proper nutrition is food for the brain
Mentally and emotionally balanced I become
From the negatives I will abstain
All-knowingness and profound peace are awesome

Never before has one written a poem
Beauty and grace just flows
Closer and closer comes saintdom
For that's what I chose

Most focus on the "me"
Instead of the All
So inner turmoil there will be
This is man's fall

One can only help others
To the level they improve themselves
This celery not only feeds my hungers
It provides wellness for all yourselves

The "law of attraction" as taught in the movie "The Secret" states that our thoughts and emotions create our "outside" life circumstances, situations, and happenstances. The entire concept of the law of attraction, or "karma" as I prefer to call it, is flat out rejected by many people. Would you like to know why some people accept it as truth and why some people don't?

The average person has a non-stop infinite stream of thoughts, emotions, opinions, views, concepts, and thinking going through their head all day long. If the concept of karma is true, it only makes sense that the more random babbling of thoughts and emotions that you have going on inside your head, the more "random" and "chaotic" your life is going to be. Obviously it's going to be pretty difficult to discern which particular thoughts are creating which situations in your life if this is the case. The more you think, the harder it will be to connect all of the dots. It would take forever for the Universe to catch up and manifest all of that random junk.

However, the less you think, or the more you focus your thoughts on just ONE thing, the easier it will be to recognize. And it generally manifests into physical reality a whole lot quicker as well because the universe doesn't have to catch up.

It's for this reason that many people who are stuck in the realm of the intellect, the mind, or science, are non-religious, or non-spiritual. They can't see the forest (karma) through the trees (thoughts).

What does it come down to? Realize the pointlessness and worthlessness of your thoughts, and stop focusing on them. Let them die. They're not helping you if they are hiding the Truth of Reality. After all, searching for the truth is what science is all about. The problem is that it has to be done solely by you, and you alone. Nobody else can ever "prove" it to you.

You wanna know the best thing of all? Sudden epiphanies and ideas happen in moments of inner quietude because Silence, which has no shape or form whatsoever, is All-Knowing. In order to truly know all of the truths of the universe, you have to stop thinking. And that's why highly evolved spiritual teachers tell us to do just that.

Here's the quotes:

"Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter." - Meister Eckhart

"The extinction of self is salvation; the annihilation of self is the condition of enlightenment." - Buddha

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Ghandi

"Still your mind in me, still your intellect in me, and without doubt you will be united with me forever." - Krishna

"A mind free of thought, merged within itself, beholds the essence of Tao. A mind filled with thought, identified with its own perceptions, beholds the mere forms of this world." - Lao Tzu

"All the concepts you have formed in the past must be discarded and replaced by void." - Huang Po

"The less one thinks the more delightful life becomes." - David R. Hawkins

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen." - Bodhidharma

"But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the buddha, they attain the understanding of a buddha without using the mind." - Bodhidharma

"The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-Realization." - Ramana Maharshi

"If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The more you talk and think about it, the further you wander from the truth. So cease attachment to talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know." - Hsin-Hsin Ming

"My thoughts do not mean anything. This idea applies to all the thoughts of which you are aware, or become aware in the practice periods." - A Course in Miracles, Lesson 10

"Enlightenment is total emptiness of mind. There is nothing you can do to get it. Any effort you make can only be an obstruction to it." - Ramesh Balsekar

"In that state of fasting the mind is only 'blank' in so far as there is a total absence of objects; itself is not absent but totally present, then and only then." - Wei Wu Wei

"You must set free your soul from all outward things and turn wholly within yourself, with no more leaning to what lies outside, and lay your mind bare of ideal forms, as before of the objects of sense, and forget even yourself, and so come within sight of that One." - Plotinus

"All thought is vanity, all opinions are vanities. The pleasure of vanity is the basis of the ego--unplug it and it collapses." - David R. Hawkins

The "law of attraction" (karma) means that my "outer" life is utterly and completely...

a dream of self creation,
a forming of the inner,
a mirage of thinking,
a hologram of awareness,
an illusion of perceptions,
a reflection of consciousness,
a mirror of mind,
a manifestation of thoughts,
an actualization of opinions,
an expression of beliefs,
a culmination of values,
an impression of ideas,
a materialization of views,
an unfolding of outlooks,
an arrival of dispositions,
a symptom of attitudes,
a reproduction of emotions,
an echo of feelings,
a symbol of personality,
a representation of character,
an appearing of traits,
a display of attributes,
an unveiling of integrity,
a shining back of conduct,
a bouncing back of karma,
a fabrication of free will,
a balancing of choices,
an unfolding of destiny,
a returning of intent,
me,
oneself.

And yes, a thesaurus was used to help write this. :)

The body is a collective community of trillions of individually living cells that are all cooperating together to make a larger whole. The brain's cellular neural network, and its thoughts and thinking, are just another part of that overall cellular functioning.

The heart pumps blood all by itself without you doing it, the lungs breath air all by themselves without you doing it, and the brain associates self-invented concepts with other self-invented concepts all by itself. The vast majority of the time, the mind is thinking (randomly babbling) completely on its own. It has nothing to do with "you" doing it. If you look inside even for a brief minute you'll see that words, verbalization, thoughts, thinking, and emotionalism are completely automatic. The brain works all by itself, which means that you are not the doer of deeds, nor the thinker of thoughts.

So if the mind and body are working all by themselves as a result of cells doing work, why do we identify the mind's thoughts and the body's actions as being "me"? Are we the mind and body, or are we the Energy/Life/Consciousness/Awareness within the body that is simply aware of Itself as existing? Are we the mind and body, or are we the Awareness that is watching the body/mind's automatic functioning? Are we the doer and thinker, or are we the Silent Formless Observer?

Out of being identified with the body/mind, we are being controlled by it. We are enslaved by it because we falsely identify it as being "me".

Oops!

Neediness often pushes other people away. Love is not a fluctuating unstable emotion. Love is not greed, possession, owning, attachment, neediness, desire, infatuation, lust, craving, addiction, jealousy, anger, egotism, or control. That which is selfish can't be love because love is selfless.

Love is good intent.
Love is service.
Love is selfless.
Love is devotion.
Love is trust.
Love is respect.
Love is kindness.
Love is compassion.
Love is good will.
Love is forgiveness.
Love is acceptance.
Love is tolerance.
Love is neutrality.
Love is unconditional.
Love is non-selective.
Love is all-encompassing.
Love is pure.
Love is Divine.
Love is Eternal.

Love is a way of being. It's the full blown radical forgiveness and acceptance of absolutely everything, as it is right now in this very moment, always.

Love is an INFINITE resource. It cannot be exhausted or used up. The more you give, the more you are able to give. The more you love, the more you can, and everybody has to start with where they are right now.

Love should not be given because you expect something in return. It is done out of selflessness (the absence of self). It's not about getting. It's about giving with no thought of reward. Not even a "thank you" should be needed or expected because that's neediness. "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Love for the sake of loving.

Relationships "fail" because people are searching outwardly for happiness and love. We are meant to share and give the happiness and love that we ALREADY ARE, with others. In doing so, it grows constantly and continuously within the one who is giving and sharing it. Love is experienced by being it yourself. Love is experienced from within, which means the source of it is within, when it's chosen. We give and share the happiness and love that we are by simply BEING it, and when we choose to be it, it's automatically being shared with others. It doesn't require any "doing". Just be Love. In becoming a better person yourself (losing the selfish self), you will be helping all others in turn.

There is no longer a "special" individual to love when all is loved equally and unconditionally. Nobody and nothing is "special" when all is equal, and if all is equal then nobody is "more important" than anybody else. Real Love is all-encompassing. It's not selective, choosy, picky, fussy, judgemental, or discriminatory. Real Love, when unobstructed by false individual opinions, beliefs, perceptions, thought processes, and emotionalism is unconditional and non-selective, no matter what. No matter what. Hence the saying, "There is no such thing as a justified resentment."