Episode Transcript: #433 - Duncan Trussell, Chris Ryan
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Boredom, you were saying, Duncan Trussell, is a form of anger?
Yeah, I was listening to this Jack Kornfield audio book,
and he was saying that boredom comes from anger because it's resistance to what is.
When you're bored, you're resisting what's happening, and it's a form of anger.
It's in the family of anger.
Tell it to the dude who's been in solitary confinement for five years.
I'd be fucking pissed.
Yeah, I think that guy needs to stretch out that definition a bit.
A little bit.
There's some reasonable boredom.
Have you ever taken an ear beating from somebody?
That's not anger.
You're bored.
Oh, look, man.
It's totally real, but it's always resistance.
If you're experiencing boredom, you're resisting what's happening.
You don't want to be there.
That's what boredom is.
But isn't resistance sometimes exactly the right thing to be doing?
I mean, there's a passivity at the heart of some Buddhist scholarship that I find irritating.