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November 14, 2005<br><br>
BOREDOM AND COMPASSION<br><br>
One of the biggest problems is that we are unable to develop compassion
or a sympathetic attitude toward our projections, let alone toward things
outside our projections -- other people other life situations. We can't
even take a sympathetic attitude toward ourselves and our own
projections, and that causes a lot of frustration and complications. That
is the whole point we are trying to deal with here. The boredom of
meditation demands your attention; in other words, the boredom becomes
the sympathetic environment in relation to which you can develop
compassion. In that boredom you have no choice but to relate directly to
what is happening to you.<br><br>
From THE LION'S ROAR: An Introduction to Tantra, page 98. Edited by
Sherab Chodzin.<br><br>
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