Satisfy The Mind's Hunger

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The mind exists in a state of "not enough" and so is always greedy for

more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and restless

very easily. Boredom means the mind is hungry for more stimulus, more

food for thought, and its hunger is not being satisfied.When

you feel bored, you can satisfy the mind's hunger by picking up a

magazine, making a phone call, switching on the TV, surfing the web,

going shopping, or - and this is not uncommon - transferring the mental

sense of lack and its need for more to the body and satisfy it briefly by ingesting more food.Or

you can stay bored and restless and observe what it feels like to be

bored and restless. As you bring awareness to the feeling, there is

suddenly some space and stillness around it, as it were. A

little at first, but as the sense of inner space grows, the feeling of

boredom will begin to diminish in intensity and significance. So even

boredom can teach you who you are and who you are not.You

discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a

conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad

or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours,"

not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.Nothing that comes and goes is you."I am bored." Who knows this?"I am angry, sad, afraid." Who knows this?You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.- Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle