Quite a meaningful reminder
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Absence is our abode
2013/02/07 1 Comment
If I am to sum up the whole problem of this age in a single word,
that word would be ABSENCE.
Absence of a presence – as someone very well put it.
Absence is the suspension of any conceivable Value,
as Value resides in Presence.
Crassly speaking, Nothing Real is being created today,
as Presence is simply a word in the dictionary;
we have no idea any longer what it entails.
Wherever you go,
you sense this corrosive state of non-existence with all its derivatives:
Boredom, lethargy, cynicism, greed, theft, moral shortage,
dissimulation, sloth, futility and loneliness.
A dialogue about time and boredom
2012/09/13 11 Comments
Her question:
“But then why, for someone who is bored, time seems to go slower and for someone who has fun, time flies away. Isn’t then time relative?”
My answer:
Are you bored…? And if you are, have you wondered why?…
What is boredom really? I am not speaking of that boredom of attending a tedious lecture or listening to prosaic classical music or studying a meaningless book…I AM SPEAKING ABOUT BOREDOM AS AN INNER CONDITIONING.
Can we look into that with a fresh and unbiased attitude?
“I am having fun” is the other side of “I am bored”. “I am having fun” and “I am bored” go hand in hand. The mind is in a perpetual state of agitation between different harsh or subtle nuances of these two extremes.
Thus, boredom is mind trying to have fun basically…It is this time-creating MIND getting stuck in the pursuit of pleasure – mind perpetually falling victim to its own projection and conditioning.
If you get what I say, becoming lucidly aware of this mechanism without any constraint or effort to understand, you might “get rid” of boredom forever.
Julien Matei
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