[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Boredom of Mountains and Waterfalls

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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

May 23, 2007

THE BOREDOM OF MOUNTAINS AND WATERFALLS

Boredom is important in meditation practice; it increases the 
psychological sophistication of the practitioners. They begin to 
appreciate boredom and they develop their sophistication until the 
boredom begins to become cool boredom, like a mountain river. It 
flows and flows and flows, methodically and repetitiously, but it is 
very cooling, very refreshing. Mountains never get tired of being 
mountains and waterfalls never get tired of being waterfalls. Because 
of their patience we begin to appreciate them. There is something in 
that....If we are to save ourselves from spiritual materialism and 
from buddhadharma without credentials, if we are to become the dharma 
without credentials, the introduction of boredom and repetitiousness 
is extremely important.

 From "Boredom" in THE MYTH OF FREEDOM AND THE WAY OF MEDITATION, 
pages 70 to 71. Shambhala Library Edition.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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