For the experience of meditation to be endlessly fascinating and infinitely compelling, you have to be interested in nothing.  Day in and day out, we are constantly pre-occupied with one thing or another, always busy with ‘something’. But if you want to experience profound meditation, and a depth that liberates, the objective of your attention must be nothing – absolutely nothing whatsoever. If you are attempting to meditate, but are not actually ‘interested’ in nothingness, then of course, you will be bored. That’s just like sitting in a darkened movie theatre, waiting for a film to start. Eventually, you will experience frustration and boredom in meditation in meditation. But imagine that you are sitting in that movie and instead of waiting for that film to begin, you become interested, passionately interested, in the darkness, in the nothingness. Read the rest of this entry →