If you have been around meditation circles long enough you will start to hear people say, "Meditation is boring, and that's just part of the experience."
Well, that's kind of true.
Once the monkey mind settles down and you achieve some kind of calm abiding or shamatha meditation, meditation itself can seem kind of boring. You have passed one milestone and settled into some kind of space, but you are missing one key ingredient.
Compassion.
Compassion you say? Of course I have compassion and generate the wish to benefit others through my practice.
Well, that's also kind of true.
You have the aspiration, but are you actually embodying compassion? Free from a physical act, what does compassion look like?
Openness embodied. Without center or limit, free of all reference points and elaboration.
Openness embodied is alive. It is vibrant, luminous. A spacious expanse. It is blissful, full.
The state of completely open awareness is the embodiment of grace. Grace, embodied.
Recognize boredom for what it is, a reference point for you and your experience. Get a bigger bucket.
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