When things go smoothly, life turns dull and insipid, thus boredom would often catch up with us. Whereas when something bad happens, we start to feelmore intensified feelings as such tend to linger in our memories. For example, we tend to take other peoples kindness for granted and overlook them, while remember what annoys us due to our attachment to bad karma.
Likewise, a child whos addicted to mobile games gets bored when there is no game to play. Mobile games and messages addict us much the same way other stimuli like tobacco and alcohol do. The child is attached to the stimuli and cant extricate himself from them. When forced to stop, the child would shift his pursuit of stimuli to something else, such as creating damages or making other troubles to get attention. And he would end up with such a bad habit. Just like the child, we adults also may find ourselves constantly looking for stimuli, creating more bad karma and attachment. Finally, finding it hard to stop, we get overburdened with sufferings we created for ourselves and for others.
When life is uneventful, we would feel bored. Then we would constantly make trouble, pick up a fight or cause harms. This is quite common among couples, family members or friends nowadays. When we come to the realization that such a prevalent phenomenon isnt at all peculiar to anyone --- for karma is of no substance, we will feel relieved and shift the focus away from the problems we created.
So when we feel bored, we should look for the root of the problem. It arises from our addiction to stimuli and our attachment to bad karma, both of which constrain us. With the realization that such karma is of no inherent nature, we could develop good relationship with others in a proactive manner. Let our grateful, inclusive and calm mind take effect in our lives to benefit ourselves and others, so that our bad karma like boredom, harm and addiction to stimuli will lose their grounds. Instead, we will bring out peace, happiness and beauty of ordinary lives.
