为什么会感到无聊？（中英开示）

　　我们平时处在顺缘中的时候，常常感到生活平淡、无味。这个平淡无味往往还会让人感到无聊。当违缘来的时候，人就有感觉了——因为刺激，容易让人记忆深刻。好比说一个人平时对你很好，很容易认为是理所当然，从而被你忽略掉；但当对方做了一件让你不舒服的事，通常你会记住，因为恶业黏着。

　　When things go smoothly, life turns dull and insipid,  thus boredom would often catch up with us. Whereas when something bad happens, we start to “feel”more – intensified feelings as such tend to linger in our memories. For example,  we tend to take other people’s kindness for granted and overlook them, while remember what annoys us due to our attachment to bad karma.

　　像小孩玩手机游戏会上瘾，不玩就感到无聊。因为手机里的游戏、信息啊像烟酒一样的刺激，令人上瘾，孩子就被这个刺激所吸引，不能自拔；即使强行断掉，他追寻刺激的感受会转移到其他事情上，像破坏啊，用打东西、搞事情来让人关注，并且养成习惯。我们大人有时也像孩子一样，寻求刺激、制造恶业，停不下来，就是想要增加更多黏着、刺激的东西，最后会不堪于负重，自己受苦，别人也受苦。

　　Likewise, a child who’s addicted to mobile games gets bored when there is no game to play. Mobile games and messages addict us much the same way other stimuli like tobacco and alcohol do. The child is attached to the stimuli and can’t extricate himself from them. When forced to stop, the child would shift his pursuit of stimuli to something else, such as creating damages or making other troubles to get attention. And he would end up with such a bad habit. Just like the child, we adults also may find ourselves constantly looking for stimuli, creating more bad karma and attachment. Finally, finding it hard to stop, we get overburdened with sufferings we created for ourselves and for others.

　　好比夫妻关系，亲人之间，朋友之间，平淡了就会无聊，无聊了就要找事、挑事，制造一些伤害，这是这个时代普遍存在的现象。我们要了解这个社会共性，它并不属于某个人——业无所属、无有实质，我们的心就会松弛下来，出现的这些问题，就不那么焦点化了。

　　When life is uneventful, we would feel bored. Then we would constantly make trouble, pick up a fight or cause harms. This is quite common among couples, family members or friends nowadays. When we come to the realization that such a prevalent phenomenon isn’t at all peculiar to anyone --- for karma is of no substance, we will feel relieved and shift the focus away from the problems we created.

　　当我们感到无聊的时候，要知道它的根源所在。它来自于我们对恶业染著、刺激的需要，我们常常被制约于此。若在这个业无所属、无有实质的基础上主动去培养善缘，让感恩、包容、平和的心在我们的生命中起作用，去自利利他，无聊、刺激、伤害等这些恶业慢慢就失去了支撑点，我们就能体会到平淡生活里的安乐与美好。

　　So when we feel bored, we should look for the root of the problem. It arises from our addiction to stimuli and our attachment to bad karma, both of which constrain us. With the realization that such karma is of no inherent nature, we could develop good relationship with others in a proactive manner. Let our grateful, inclusive and calm mind take effect in our lives to benefit ourselves and others, so that our bad karma like boredom, harm and addiction to stimuli will lose their grounds. Instead, we will bring out peace, happiness and beauty of ordinary lives.

　　——来自慈法法师的『生命之光 · 阳光早餐』

　　——From：『Light of Life Sunshine Breakfast』

　　2018年9月由Robin整理

　　原标题：阳光早餐 | 为什么会无聊

　　Original title：Why do We Get Bored

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