How do you find God in tedium/boredom?

[Clyde the Rainmaker]

I have to take the bus to and from work and it makes my workdays all the more excruciating. I'm so bored at my job and I'm struggling to keep the Devil down in the hole. How do you find God in tedious things?

[Inliytened1]

6 hours ago, Clyde the Rainmaker said:

I have to take the bus to and from work and it makes my workdays all the more excruciating. I'm so bored at my job and I'm struggling to keep the Devil down in the hole. How do you find God in tedious things?

Occupy the mind. An idle mind is the Devils playground.   Find a book or watch a movie.  Do anything.

Edited December 10 by Inliytened1

[ChrisZoZo]

@Clyde the Rainmaker I would have to do an hour bus journey each day to go to university. I spent it doing silent meditations some times, very effective. I never feel comfortable meditating in public, but the bus seems to have an exception. Listening to Moojiji’s silent meditations. 

[UnbornTao]

You start by allowing yourself to be bored and tedious instead of unconsciously resisting it, which is often what occurs. Why do we generally seem to dislike boredom and the mundane?

Call it Enlightened Boredom.  

Edited December 11 by UnbornTao

[Davino]

@Clyde the Rainmaker God comes to you in the form of Boredom and tediousness. They both exist and are experienced, therefore they are a manifestation of God.

Practically speaking you'll have to develop clarity over boredom, try to find out what boredome actually is, how you feel moment to moment. You can make so many distinctions, what you call boredom is a label for hundreds of mind/emotional states. Is boredom coming from a desire to avoid something in my life or is it coming from dopamine seeking, is it a low, or a habit of seeking stimulation and distraction. How does my body feel? are there parts of my body more bored than others? Do I overheat or become cold when bored? which part of my body, do I feel contracted or expanded, where? and so on

By actually scanning and becoming aware of Boredom it will become translucid to consciousness. In a nutshell, I'm telling you to make boredom your object of meditation

[LifeEnjoyer]

My therapist used to tell me, "boredom is just peace you haven't accepted yet". Or something along those lines

[gettoefl]

Boredom is ego saying feed me daddy even though you're already feeding at an all-you-can-eat buffet

Use the boredom as the best tool there is to penetrate the otherworldly silence which is in fact what reveals your true nature

Eckhart Tolle talks about this

[Javfly33]

15 minutes ago, gettoefl said:

Boredom is ego saying feed me daddy even though you're already feeding at an all-you-can-eat buffet

Use the boredom as the best tool there is to penetrate the otherworldly silence which is in fact what reveals your true nature

 

Damn facts 💯💯💯

[Ishanga]

Boredom is a clear sign that One is a Slave to External Senses being stimulated, the Mind is craving stimulation from the 5 senses, this is natural in a basic survival way, but its not top level Human Ability or Capability.. Top Level Human Capability is Your in complete control of How You Experience Life Moment to Moment, this is not a Thinking process, its a Natural Process, like when You get hungry, Your not thinking food (some may if they are addicted, but if Your healthy, You will at one time or another during the day get Hungry), its just comes to you as a feeling/experience that it is getting close to eating time, its the same with Creating Your Own Experience, You consciously chose how You want to feel then it comes to You..Of course this sort of Control has to come with striving for it, so that it is a natural thing..

So Boredom is basically for those ppl that do not experience Life at its highest intensity, their Mind Identified and driven and therefore will not be able to feel the Intensity of Life, as Mind is not Life Orientated, its Past/Future, Memory/Imagination orientated, and Life is not found there, its found in the Present Moment and Mind is never orientated in the present Moment...

[Razard86]

16 hours ago, LifeEnjoyer said:

My therapist used to tell me, "boredom is just peace you haven't accepted yet". Or something along those lines

Wow that's a good one. That is a wise therapist, also....a joke....if we put a space between the and rapist we can call your therapist a rapist. LOL.

But yeah boredom is definitely peace, only people who are safe know boredom. 

[LifeEnjoyer]

3 hours ago, Razard86 said:

Wow that's a good one. That is a wise therapist, also....a joke....if we put a space between the and rapist we can call your therapist a rapist. LOL.

But yeah boredom is definitely peace, only people who are safe know boredom. 

interesting you say that. I was actually seeing my therapist after being "cancelled" at the university i went to for being a rapist, something I never did. One girl even followed me to a different college just to scream at me for raping a girl. Saw the therapist for a good year or so she really helped me out