Again, we have Schopenhauer viewing the same ultimate reality of emptiness from the opposite pole as the Buddhists, informed by this industrial/Protestant commodification/judgement of time … of course boredom is seen pessimistically when life is seen as task and not simply Life
ALT Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms (tr. R. J. Hollingdale)
Schopenhauer’s prison of desire birthed from this pessimistic reflection on the nothing is an interesting contrast to the Buddhist conception where śūnyatā is not something to be lamented, but rather a realization, cessation from the wheel of suffering