Feeling Bored

   All too often people need stimulus to keep from feeling bored. In a mind centered world, this is all to easy to understand. The mind needs constant activity and attention.  So we turn to television, the internet, eating when were not really hungry, or work our way into drama by focusing on things that are ultimately not under our control. 

   Instead of falling into the boredom trap, why not try to notice the thousand miracles that surround you every day. These are missed  because they are not of the ego's focus. Within these ten thousand things of the world exists the hidden energy that exists in all of life. The clouds, stars, flowers, trees, birds all are part of the energy that inhabits every living thing. Once you notice that energy, it can stop the mind because it is not part of the mind. The living energy in the universe can't be seen, touched, smelled or heard. Yet it pervades every single thing and every breath you take. Because it can't be seen, the mind can't perceive it, only you can.

   If you took a human body and perfectly placed each part on a table, it would still be all of you yet it would be unable to live in the conventional sense. In the pieces taken apart, you couldn't breath, walk or talk. The invisible energy of life force would not be on the table to view because it exists within the totality of the body but not in the parts themselves. Just yesterday, I was standing on my deck in early morning sunshine by some mornng glory flowers. Seemingly out of no where a tiny humming bird magically appeared suspended only a few feet from my eyes. It was so startling that for a minute my mind stopped thinking.   I just enjoyed that perfect moment of "no mind." I was living in the now. Next time your feeling bored, take a few moments and notice your breath and how it happens without thought. Sense the energy you can't touch in all things and notice how we are and always will be part of it all. Life rarely gets boring if you keep the a little of the awe of nature and the universe within your realm of your thinking mind.