HOW IS ONE TO OVERCOME BOREDOM? - OSHO




BELOVED OSHO,
HOW IS ONE TO OVERCOME BOREDOM? HOW CAN ONE REDISCOVER MYSTERY IN THINGS THAT HAVE BECOME BORING, REPETITIVE, DEMYSTIFIED?

The first thing to remember is that it is not that things are repetitive – it is your mind, not the things. The sun rises every day, you can say that it is repetitive. It is not, because the sun rises every day in a different way. The colors are different, the mood is different, the sky is different. The sun never repeats, it is always new. It is your mind which says, ”This is repetitive, so what is the beauty there?”
Looking at the sun rising every day will create boredom, but the boredom is coming because you are not sensitive enough to see the newness. Everything is new every moment. It looks old because you carry the past in your mind and you look through the past…

OSHO
Vedanta: seven steps to samadhi: Talks on the Akshya Upanishad
Ch # 17. Valleys and peaks

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