(Alvin’s Note: Our dear fellow Life Coach, and passionate personal development extraodinaire, Paiboon Busayarak, has embarked on a 3 month initiation into Buddhist monkhood in his native Thailand. He just sent me this post via email sharing the conversations he’s had with his teacher. The words are his, the grammer tweaking is mine 
Enjoy!)
If you find one thing boring,
You’ll find everything boring.
Dogen, “Guidelines for Studying the Way”
Boredom lies in our character, not in the world. “If you’re bored,” I’ve heard it said “you’re boring”. Think about this.
When you’re bored, you tend to bore others. Conversely, when you’re bored, it is because you are boring: you are the one who engages in the act of boring. It’s not the world that is boring you; it is you who are boring the world. This is the Buddha’s meaning.
So, when you are boring, stop doing it. Look inside and ask yourself, “Why am I draining the life from this moment?” Answering this question restores you and the world to life. Boredom becomes impossible.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
So true! And that’s why we enjoy being with people who exudes life, enjoying and being in the moment while we often want to run (unless social ettiquette commands us to stay :)) from the bored boring ones.
Lets all learn cattitude from Meow Meow the office cat - enjoying and deriving richness from each moment.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:33 am
Good, point. I tell my students they need to get involved in school life and then school won’t be boring.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Thanks Elona, Bernie!
I’ve come to believe it’s true, the more exciting you make your own life, the more exciting people and places are drawn to you.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Ack… sounds like something Dr. Phil would say not Buddha. I think Buddha would say, “embrace your boredom, befriend it, and watch what happens….”
Everyone has negative feelings on occasion, and it’s the typical westerner who tried to fight it.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Hi Donna!
Not just Westerners, but us Easterners too
November 13th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Donna, you’re right on, that’s exactly what Bhudda would’ve said, because boredom is nothing more than who you are and the first thing one needs to do is embrace oneself unconditionally without judgement, without criticism, without justification, without all the things we do to run away and then see what happens.