Depression & Boredom

Ven. Dhammika speaks on boredom as an aspect of depression.

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• Spiritual
• Religion
• Dharma
• Dhamma
• Buddha
• Buddhism
• Meditation
• Mind
• Dhammika
• Boredom
• Depression
• Hedonism

[brucinda01]

How the hell does he know what he's talking about, he's never been hedonistic. I was and not now, but i was never bored. I am a Buddhist, but i don't agree with this.I listen to hours of darma talks every day and i've never been bored.

[Saattya]

How do you know he has never been hedonistic? I know what he says is true because I've experienced it directly many times and see it frequently happen to others. Perhaps you don't understand it because you haven't had the experience he speaks of. Listening to Dharma talks isn't quite the same as the sensory dulling excess of hedonism.

[Saattya]

Actually even excessive study of the Dharma can lead to the same phenomena of dulling the senses and boredom. Consider the first part of Zen Mind Beginners Mind where he speaks about the joy of reading a sutra for the first time but how that can change after one has read it many times.

This may not be the same as hedonistic boredom that can lead to greater and greater excess and sometimes perversion but the principle is the same.

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[yadsik]

The first time I watched this I was not sure what he meant by 'perversion'. But now I review it, it seems that perversion is referring to the attempt to find pleasure or happiness in our senses which have become dull from hedonism, so that we never find satisfaction, and since our satisfaction has not been found, we persist over it to the point of obsession.

I have a lot to think about. I have a very poor attitude on life, even though I am a Buddhist.

Thank you for sharing. Much love to you.

[aPhewtUnes]

Those that not accept boredom as a possibility of their being in some altered state, those can´t see the life in full. It is a part of every being and only human being. Even animals and insects are bored from time to time.....

Boredom is a free space to archive new possibilities of yourself´s "doings". It isn´t a matter of some high ranked word or definition, to brighten up your focus!

[FidelCastro128]

Being here now past present and future

boredom happiness sad happy

birth sex and death

[bebo3ful]

@yacket i feel right now exactly this way, only way is to change whatever habits you have this instant. I mean like right now, make a plan for tomorrow.

[HashOwns]

boredom brought me to this vid and other enlightening vids so this perception is true for me in a way.

[AllahConsciousness]

"One who neither rejoices on obtaining what is pleasant, nor grieves on obtaining the unpleasant, who has a steady mind, who is undeluded, and who is a knower of the Supreme Being, such a person eternally abides with the Supreme Being."  ~Bhagavad-Gita~

[easternshorefilam]

@BilboB8 He didn't say that Buddhism and depression are the same thing. He said that Buddhism is an aspect of depression. Big difference!