10 Jul How can intelligence avoid boredom? It is impossible. (OSHO)
The stupid people are not bored. They are perfectly happy doing their jobs, earning money, making a bigger bank balance, raising their children, reproducing, eating, sitting in the movie, going to the hotel, participating in this and that. They are enjoying! They are not bored. They are the lowest types; they really belong to the world of buffaloes.
A man becomes human when he starts feeling bored. You can see it: the most intelligent child will be the most bored child – because nothing can keep his interest for long.
Buddha was utterly bored. He left his kingdom when he was only twenty-nine, at the peak of his youth. He was utterly bored – with women, with wine, with wealth, with kingdom, with everything.
He had seen all, he had seen through and through.
He was bored. He renounced the world NOT because the world is wrong, remember. Traditionally it is said he renounced the world because the world is bad – that is absolute nonsense. He renounced the world because he became so BORED with it.
It is not bad, neither is it good. If you are intelligent, it is boredom. If you are stupid, you can go on. Then it is a merry-go-round; then you move from one sensation to another.
You are interested in trivia and you go on repeating and you are not conscious enough to see the repetition – that yesterday also you had been doing this, and today also you are doing, and again you are imagining tomorrow to do the same thing again. You must be really unintelligent.
How can intelligence avoid boredom? It is impossible.
Intelligence means seeing things as they are. Buddha left the world out of boredom; utterly bored, he ran away from the world.
The ordinary person is joyous for a reason. His joy is momentary.
The ordinary man is joyous because he has got a new car; tomorrow he will have to look for another car.
It goes on and on… and he never sees the point of it, that always, finally, you are bored.
The intelligent person sees it. The sooner you see, the more intelligence you show. Then what is left? Then only boredom is left, and one has to meditate over it.
There is no way to escape from it. Then go into it. See where it leads. And if you can keep going into it, it leads into enlightenment.
Boredom
OSHO
