With respect to shi-nè – until you get seriously bored, you will not give up the illusion that there is something to be gained apart from what you are. Boredom plays an extremely important role as the altimeter of emptiness. The spacious view of Dzogchen is only available once the dizzying heights of boredom have been recognised as freedom. Boredom then transmogrifies into an ethereal translucent boredom. It will still necessarily have an aspect of unease with it – but that is the key to an open dimension.
p77, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7