Why do feelings of emptiness and boredom exist in humans ?

ProblemOfEvil said:
They feel bad and produce nothing.
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When reacting on bad fruits wrongly, one produces new cause for new bad fruits, good householder.

As for "Why do feelings of emptiness and boredom arise?", because currently not finding an escape, no refuge, no relay. It's normal is seeking escape and security in what isn't real, lasting, under one's control, not really own.

As for the "mood" itself: nothing to worry, it wouldn't last, even if lazy and effortless, yet, of cause, can also increase.

RJM said:
My grandma told me: Count your blessings
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If "blessing" means "your good deeds", that good householder's Grandmother did good advice here, to reflect the issue and encouraging to go on and do right tasks.
 
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu said:
If "blessing" means "your good deeds", that good householder's Grandmother did good advice here, to reflect the issue and encouraging to go on and do right tasks.
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I think Grandma was encouraging me to be grateful for all the good things God has granted me, in spite of all the wrong things that I've done? All my dharma failures. But I think I get what you're saying :)
 
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RJM said:
I think Grandma was encouraging me to be grateful for all the good things God has granted me, in spite of all the wrong things that I've done?
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If good householders grandmother then meant that good moods and bad moods are because of a God, as well as Good-doers, and Bad-doers, than good househoders Grandmother did no good by encouraging to inaction and hopes. What's a blessing, if one would be blessed by bad moods being granted? Not that said here should reduce the amount of gratitude good householder possible owes Grandmother either.
Just to be sure about what good householder thinks that he"s getting the told, and don't just taking it as a possible well meant blessing.
 
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu said:
If good householders grandmother then meant that good moods and bad moods are because of a God, as well as Good-doers, and Bad-doers, than good househoders Grandmother did no good by encouraging to inaction and hopes. What's a blessing, if one would be blessed by bad moods being granted? Not that said here should reduce the amount of gratitude good householder possible owes Grandmother either.
Just to be sure about what good householder thinks that he"s getting the told, and don't just taking it as a possible well meant blessing.
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Perhaps my feelings of emptiness and boredom are because I’m in solitary confinement in prison for a crime I didn’t do? Perhaps I have lost my legs and live in a place where I can't get a wheelchair?
 
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Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu said:
If good householders grandmother then meant that good moods and bad moods are because of a God, as well as Good-doers, and Bad-doers, than good househoders Grandmother did no good by encouraging to inaction and hopes.
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Granny was Scottish. She’d watch birds in her cottage garden and every now and then there’s be a bully bird, an alpha male, taking over and chasing away the others, and when I was around 12 or perhaps a little older, she’d phone up for me and I’d have to come down with a 4.10 shotgun and shoot it. I was so proud of myself, shooting the bird that Granny didn’t like.

It's just how it was in those days ...
 
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RJM said:
Perhaps my feelings of emptiness and boredom are because I’m in solitary confinement in prison for a crime I didn’t do? Perhaps I have lost my legs and live in a place where I can't get a wheelchair?
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They are for sure and only because used to relay on sensual pleasures, flighty refuges and escapes, and now no more able, or currently no more able to gain them. Btw. desire for sensuality as escape is the root cause of all evil, ceating, lying, stealing, murder and wars.
Good to go for more harmless sources of joy, more sublime identifications, such as abonding harmfull, virtue, liberality, giving away. Gratitude, seeing that always relaying on burdens of others and oneself, for gaining shortlasting release by sensual joy, helps. Once owner of goodness and virtue, one can make himself an island, a refuge, easy finds joy by reflecting own goodness.

RJM said:
Granny was Scottish. She’d watch birds in her cottage garden and every now and then there’s be a bully bird, an alpha male, taking over and chasing away the others, and when I was around 12 or perhaps a little older, she’d phone up for me and I’d have to come down with a 4.10 shotgun and shoot it. I was so proud of myself, shooting the bird that Granny didn’t like.

It's just how it was in those days ...
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Once wrongdoing is seen and no more denied, once one resolves to abound evil, one has gained purity in regard of this kind of evil, like taking life. Not that one could escape the fruits of former evil deed, but one is able to walk on, and fruits can be taken by more ease and will not meet one that heavy.

Good thoughts toward the Grandmother, "oh may you soon abound wrong conducts and thought as well", or trying to find ways to help her abstain from misconduct and develop goodwill toward all other beings, if she is still alive, would be a way to pay all goodness received by her, back, as leading her toward long time happiness if she's able to find confidence in good.
 
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu said:
Good thoughts toward the Grandmother, "oh may you soon abound wrong conducts and thought as well", or trying to find ways to help her abstain from misconduct and develop goodwill toward all other beings, if she is still alive, would be a way to pay all goodness received by her, back, as leading her toward long time happiness if she's able to find confidence in good.
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Thank you for the counsel.

But it's not really about my grandmother, of course. She was a good person, lost a son in WW2 and later moved to Africa in her old age.

"Count your blessings" is a common English saying.
 
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