Ok, this question is worded a little oddly, but I'll explain what I think it might mean. There are many people who don't like neutral feelings and boredom. They want something to be happening. You know, we actually don't mind if you get into Dukkha in the retreat, because it gives you the opportunity to find your way out of it. But if you're not experiencing Dukkha and if you're not experiencing happiness and if you're just experiencing a bit of boredom, that's fine. Use those moments to build your muscles. It's like some people think if nothing is happening, that they are not progressing, not true! If nothing exciting is happening we can still be progressing, but we just don't see the result at that time.
When I say build muscles, I have a cute little story about this. The farm that we owned in Australia was quite big, 1,000 acres, and we built our home on a little bit of a rise. Below it was a slope down to a flat where we had our garden. The house was about 40 meters away from the garden with a little downward slope in between. The slope was full of rocks. Little rocks, big rocks, you name it. Up around the house it was pretty nice, we grew beautiful grass. Down in the gardens there was grass, plants, trees and everything. But in between the two was a slope full of rocks. Eventually, we cleared the whole slope of rocks and had grass, but as we cleared it, we did it in the most intelligent way. We took the little rocks out, then we took the medium sized rocks out, then we took the largest rocks out. What's happening as this is going on? Our muscles were growing. If we had tried to start with the big rocks, we could have pulled a muscle, hurt our backs, whatever. But no, we did it in an intelligent way. Little rocks first, medium rocks second, big rocks last. When nothing exciting is happening, when you a big rock to play with, that's ok. Work with the little rocks. Get the foundation of your practice stronger.
When you are walking back and forth and you don't think anything is happening, you may think it's boring, but are you as mindful as you could be? Are you catching your wandering thoughts as often as you could? There's no such thing as boredom for a good practitioner. It's impossible, it doesn't exist. If you have a good practice, there is no such thing as boredom. Interesting? Because that's just it, there's always something of interest. This moment is of interest. So if you think you're bored in this moment and you become mindful of this moment, you're not bored anymore, it's gone. There's a challenge for you.