Boredom tries to convince you that you must wait for life to be interesting enough to live and that now is not worth paying attention to. Boredom has you bypass the present for the excitement of a future possibility. Ask yourself when boredom arises, "When is life better than now?"
Lama Palden Gyatso, incarcerated and tortured for 33 years in Tibet by the Chinese, talks about his experience and how practice helped him through horrific suffering.
