Right, Steve.
Anyway, 'boring' may be is not the right term. boring is watching TV shows or TV news, which apparently are the same every day.
Boring is to see soccer events or many of other big bucks sportive events. Boring is to see or hear advertisement.
We cannot put meditation, even if without immediate results, at the same plane. I would rather engage for hours in a 'tedious' meditation rather than watch a soccer match or a TV show.
i can easily relate to your experiences of what boring is and it it distinguishes us from the ant like pace of 'normal' activities. The insipid activities u mention are the interests of the masses doomed to go thru many lifetimes of material entertainment as opposed to feeling the freedom and liberation from these pastimes in meditation. At first we may have feelings of being alone in meditation and compare it with the activities of the masses and wonder about ourselves. However after a time at the practice of meditation we more and more realize the foolishness of normal activities and realize the 'prison' of material existence that most people have consigned themselves to. Having met people like yourself mccoy (and others here) we begin to compare notes and are further encouraged by the efforts of others to immerse ourselves in the spiritual practices we have followed and forego the treacherous path of material persuasion into this material existence that others accept as real.
The mind is bored in meditation because of its ceaseless need for excitement, distractions and entertainment from the environment as well as its restless desires. The mind has been conditioned for life times to listen to such distractions so when it takes time to experience peace and tranquility it instead experiences boredom and the doldrums. This activity must be quieted. Without the use of powerful techniques of meditation designed to quell desires of the restless mind and some effort to curb amusements... meditation can appear boring and have no appeal. Even people who r by nature, more quiet then others, r still occupied for hours in mental activity and entertainment and predisposed to be restless with for instance reading, mental games, medical journals or any amount of pumping and filling the brain with distractions. They too find resistance to very much time with spiritual meditation.
