Question

When my mind is busy I spend a lot of time making it calm by being mindful. When it's calm and empty I note, "empty, empty", for only half an hour and then it's, "bored, bored". Then I want to think again for entertainment. Why is this?

Answer

Because it appears that you're only using calm and not insight, that's why. Calm is not the end in itself, calm is something we use. So that's probably why you get "bored, bored", because you're not using the calm to then actually investigate and contemplate. In Buddhism we have calm and insight.

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