Meditation never has a dull moment. People sometimes say, ‘it’s boring, doing the same nothing every day’. But when you come to see meditation as continuous deepening, even boredom becomes interesting. The process takes you through highs and lows, vast peaceful panoramas and hard slog up the mountainside. Times when you glide on the air currents like a bird. Times when you crawl through the mud.

It’s more than interesting. Novelty is ‘interesting’, (for a while), but then you relapse again into boredom and start hungering for a change, just for the sake of change. That is boring. It diminishes the human and turns us into consumers in search of entertainment.