1. Intensity - Collection

The Sufi mystic Junaid, was taking a walk one morning when a man came up to him asking, 'I need to reach the capital of this kingdom. How long will it take?'

Junaid just looked at the man and continued walking. The man was going in the same direction. He followed Junaid thinking maybe he did not hear him properly.

So, he asked Junaid again, 'Can you please tell me how much time it will take me to reach the capital of the kingdom?'

Junaid continued walking.

The man gave up trying to ask further. After some distance, Junaid said, 'You will have to walk at least ten hours.'

The man was surprised and exclaimed, 'You could have said that before!' Junaid replied, 'How can I say before? I needed to watch your speed first. Then only I could tell you how long it will take to reach the capital.'

In the same way, the time it takes to realize also depends on your intensity. If you are intense enough, it does not need time to reach the Ultimate. Where you are, who are you is irrelevant. You can reach here and now.

If you don't live any moment intensely, what happens?

Your mind looks for repeating the action in that moment.

Why? Why does your mind pull you to the same experience again and again? You may crave for a particular candy or you may be addicted to something. Why?

You cannot feel fulfilled by offering sense pleasures to the senses. Living intensely does not mean fulfilling your senses, pouring pleasures into your senses, or living as you wanted. Eat intensely. When you are eating, only eat. When you are sleeping, just sleep. When you are drinking, only drink. When you are making merry, just be merry.

Actually if you look deep you can see it is because you never eat the candy or cater to the addiction completely with full involvement. You hold back from throwing yourself into the action fully. Maybe you feel guilty about it or you have too many confusing thoughts at that time. So you decide to just do the action ignoring your thoughts and feelings that are coming in the way of your pleasure.

You see, part of you wants to indulge in the action. Another part of you argues why you should not. You are caught in too many thoughts, many of them selfcontradictory. You lose energy in fighting with yourself. Finally, you are not integrated whether you do the action or not. You are not intense. So the desire is not completely fulfilled and leaves behind its memory in your inner space.

Engraved memories of desires that are not completely fulfilled are called samskaras. These engraved memories have the power to make you return and travel in that same path. Whether it is coffee or champagne or smoking, whatever engram you create will have the power to make you do the same action again and again, till you feel completely fulfilled with that habit or with that enjoyment or pleasure.

If you enjoy your addiction intensely even once, only once, you will be completely liberated. That engram will never ask you anymore to travel in that path. It will liberate you.w of life! It is a law of life!

Karma is nothing but unfulfilled engrams and desires, which are inside your being, which constantly make you again and again to travel in that same path, trying to give the experience of fulfillment in your inner being.

Unfulfilled engrams are what I call karma. You keep your body alive, you keep your mind alive, because still you have hope that the body can give something to you, the mind can give something to you. Still you have the hope you can enjoy something, or something needs to be fulfilled through the body and mind. That is what I call karma.

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Whether we lead or whether we follow, in order to be fulfilled in whatever we do, we need to be intense. Only when the urge becomes urgent, when the question becomes a quest, does the ultimate happen. The deep dissatisfaction about what is there in the Inner space is what is called intensity. Your dissatisfaction which is now directed towards the outer world, has to turn towards the inner world and only then it will lead to satisfaction. If your consciousness is constantly moving towards the outer world, it is called restlessness. If it is moving towards the inner world, it is called intensity.

Intensity is not an emotion. It is like heat. The part of intensity that melts and comes out can be called emotion. The side effect of intensity is emotion. Intensity should become a quality.

If you are talking, let the intensity be there. In your relationships, in your decisions, in your memory, in your thinking, in your desires, even in your fear, be intense without escaping from that moment.

Intensity means radiating the energy that does not create any conflict inside and outside. It flows smoothly and yet very strongly. Intensity is like a flood which is intense and flowing. Intensity is integration. Intensity is focus. Intensity is sincerity. When you are intense and ready to flow you will achieve the goal. Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

When we change gears while driving a car, whether we change from first to second, or second to third, or any gear for that matter, we have to pass through neutral every time. We have to completely de-press the clutch, or 'unclutch', move through neutral, and only then we can go to the next gear, right? In the same way, we experience a neutral space between any two thoughts in our mind..

To make the child understand about what is intensity.

• ❖ What is intensity? Is intensity an emotion?
• ❖ How is intensity connected with emotion?
• ❖ Who achieves success? Does integrity create conflict inside or outside?
• ❖ Which is way to be fulfilled in whatever we do?
• ❖ Whether sincerity is related to intensity or not?
• ❖ When you have to be intense?
• ❖ Dissatisfaction lead to satisfaction true or false?
• ❖ What happens when the urge becomes urgent

Color bits of paper Plain sheet Glue

Give the materials needed to each child. Explain to the child that they can cut bits of colored paper and stick it on the plain sheet in their own design or pattern or figure.

Our mind comprises many thoughts like the bits of paper but when we organize our thoughts we can create wonders.

Three different color woolen threads as little bunches for the children to hold it comfortably.

Encourage children to sit around the table. Provide the woolen threads to the children with all three bunches tied at one end. Direct them to place it on the table and ask them to hold one bunch on their right hand one on their left, one will be in the middle. Ask them to the place the bunch of wool that they hold on their right in the middle and keep on alternating all the three strands one after another.

Connect the children to the fact when we are intense we can do difficult things easily.

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Look at the Oyster, it is waiting for the rain water to make the pearl. When the rain water falls, she just carries the rain water into her womb and goes down into the ocean. The process happens on the rain water and the pearl reacts.

The Oyster will be waiting with the mouth wide open on the waters of the ocean. She will be just waiting for the rain water. She cannot take the salt water and make the pearl. She needs pure rain water. The moment one drop of rain water falls on her immediately she will go into the deepest layer of the ocean and she will start doing the process. She will come out with the pearl. Intensity is integrity. Usually intensity leads to solid feelings. You may be intense but you may have lost the ability to flower or you may be flowing but may have lost the intensity.

You may be intense but you may have lost the ability to flow, because you are driven by your ego. You are determined to achieve what you want but you have your own rigid idea how to get there. The other possibility is that you may be flowing but may have lost the intensity. This is the case with people who have no facts, and waste their energies getting distracted by anything that comes by. Intensity is integrity and focus. Intensity with integrity and focus is called burning intensity

When we change gears while driving a car, whether we change from first to second, or second to third, or any gear for that matter, we have to pass through neutral every time. We have to completely de-press the clutch, or 'unclutch', move through neutral, and only then we can go to the next gear, right? In the same way, we experience a neutral space between any two thoughts in our mind..

To make the child understand about burning intensity

• ❖ Does the Oyster have intensity?
• ❖ How the Oyster is integrated in its action?
• ❖ What is called burning intensity?
• ❖ Why sometimes you may be intense but lost the ability to flow?
• ❖ Sometimes you might be flowing but lost the intensity why?

Be integrated with intensity see the being blossoming, expanding and expressing.

Encourage each child to draw the questioning words WHERE, WHEN, WHO , WHAT, WHY. They can draw what means to them about WHERE, WHEN , WHO, WHAT, WHY in pictorial form.

Every day we have so many questions in our mind . we are constantly occupied finding the answers for these questions. When we are intense we always be in the moment.

Make the children sit in a circle, encourage them to play the game.

Encourage the children to sit in a circle and explain the game to them. The children have to say the alphabets starting from first alphabet each one has to tap the hand of the next person by saying the next alphabet but when it comes to vowels, they have to say Buzz. If they say vowels like a, e, i, o, u, they will be out of the game. Encourage them to play this game with increasing speed.

Even though everybody knows the alphabets and vowels only when they are in now and very alert, they can say and play the game correctly. If they are not alert they will miss the game.

Make the children sit in a circle, encourage them to play the game.

Children has to play this game like dumb charades. Give children the word like Insecurity, Intensity, Logical, Approval, Sacrifice, Mr. Right, Pattern and Space. Each child must visualize these words and express it to other child through dumb charades and other children must find the words which the child is saying. The children has to tell in which level they view the word, where they are getting the word from.

This activity makes them understand, in which level they understand a particular word. How they can move into the next deeper layers.

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Reiterate the before topic and introduce about Becoming vs Being. When you are intense, you just are, you don't need to become, you just need to be

We know so many ways of becoming. Becoming is totally different from being. All our knowledge is all about becoming. Becoming is directly related to the mind. Being is directly related to your nature. Becoming is related to society, being is related to you. We know only how to become something. We forgot an important factor, how to be. Because our inner space has become too much corrupted with the concept of becoming, we lost touch with the idea of being. We lost touch with our very truth which is being.

If you can experience your being at least for one moment, so many negative things that you accumulated when you wanted to become will be washed away. Even becoming something will be a great success if you start after experiencing being. 'Being is intensity' – being is complete, total, integrated, expressing your full energy.

Your anger is hypocritical. You just choose whether to express your anger or not. Your anger is also directly related to your logic.

When your logic manages your anger, you will have new problems. First you unnecessarily show your anger when it is not necessary. Second, even when you are not expressing, you will be suppressing. Suppressing and expressing both are not going to help. If everyone you can just be without moving your body, without cooperating with your emotion, you will be liberated from that emotion.

To make the child understand about Becoming vs Being and the healing touch.

• ❖ Being and becoming are same or different?

• ❖ Which is needed being or becoming?

• ❖ All our knowledge is all about being or becoming?

• ❖ Which is related to your free nature?

• ❖ Which is related to the society?

• ❖ What happens when you experience being at least one moment?

• ❖ Why we have lost touch from the very truth?

• ❖ When all our stored negative things will be washed away?

• ❖ Your anger is directly related to what? When our logic manages our anger what will happen?

• ❖ Suppressing anger is good or bad?

• ❖ Expressing anger is good or bad?

Being complex total, integrated, expressing your full energy is called being.

Encourage each child to use the safety scissors and cut out the shapes nicely in the given paper.

Connect them to the fact intense person will always be in awareness.

To make the children understand about awareness and being in now.

Ask each child what are the languages they know clearly. Encourage the children to play the game of translation.

Each child must say a sentence and translate the same sentence into an another familiar language. When they are doing that they have to very alert.

When they are alert only they will be able to translate each and every word correctly. So this activity enables them to be more aware.

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You cannot feel fulfilled by offering sense pleasures to the senses. Living intensely does not mean fulfilling your senses. Pairing pleasures into your senses or living as you wanted. Be intense, eat intensely. When you are eating, only eat. When you are sleeping, just sleep. When you are drinking, only drink. When you are making merry, just be merry.

When you live intensely, automatically you will be liberated. If you really want to experience life, if you really want to know the ultimate mystery of existence, then the way into it is intensity. Intense in whatever you do. Let you dissolve in it.

Do not be partial, be integrated in yourself. If you dance, dance so totally that you become the dance. There will be no dancer remaining then, only the dancer remains.

When the ego dissolves, the false sense of identity disappears and you can see the flow of the intelligent and total energy of existence through you. We can achieve bliss when we have intensity in our action, intensity in every moment. Intensity decides age. What matters is not the quantity of life, but the quality, the intensity of living.

• ❖ What does living intensely means?
• ❖ Living intensely does not mean what?
• ❖ What happens when you live intensely?
• ❖ Can we be intense in what we do?
• ❖ What happens when we are partial in doing activities?
• ❖ What happens when the ego dissolves?
• ❖ When we achieve bliss? Which is important in life quantity or quality?

How well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions related to the topic.

Live intensely in the moment and taste the real life. Else you are not living.

Chalk piece Plain sheet

Encourage each child to hold the chalk piece and scribble on the paper. Ask them to do the scribbling till the chalk piece is completely over.

Intensity is doing the job completely with awareness.

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Copy writing a page looking at it upside down. To make the children unclutch and be in the moment. To make them be illogical. To make them right brain oriented.

Give each child plain sheet, pencil and a picture with few paragraphs, sentences written on it.

Encourage each child to hold the page upside down and copy right the contents give in it by looking at it upside down.

This activity needs lots of concentration and awareness. This writing is a right brain activity.

Children can a debate on the topic of Becoming versus Being

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An interest can be lost, but never the intensity. Interest comes from the mind. Intensity comes from the being. After a while, may be short or long, you can get fed up with your own interest , with intensity, it is a thirst of your being. It transcends the rationale of your logic. Intensity is a call from deep within. The more you have to wait for it, the more the thirst grows, the more the fire flares up.

See the difference between light and laser, both are made up of the same light rays but the single pointed intense focus of the laser comes from the coherence and the common frequency of the light rays.

The power of this intensity is what gives the laser the tremendous power to even burn a hole through metal. Live intensely in the moment and taste the real life. Else you are not living.

To make the child understand about Interest Vs Intensity and being intense is whatever you do.

• ❖ What is interest?
• ❖ What is intensity?
• ❖ Interest comes from where?
• ❖ Intensity comes from where?
• ❖ Which may be short term Interest or Intensity?
• ❖ Which is the thirst of year being?
• ❖ What is the power of the intensity?

Live intensely in the moment and taste the real life.

Give the materials needed for each child encourage each child to hold the block with one hand and trace the block with pencil or sketch in the paper with the other hand.

Intensity is completely finishing the work without giving up in the middle.

Talking meaningless sentence with proper English words To make the children utilize their right brain and being in row.

Make the children sit in a circle and explain the game to them.

Each child get his turn to speak meaningless sentence using proper English words. Children who are comfortable with English always like to talk meaningful sentence.

By making them to talk meaningless sentence using proper English words, we make the children be more aware and be in now. We develop their right brain capacity.

Explain to the children to analyze their emotion and from which level they perceive the ambition. For example if a child say "My ambition is to be a doctor" ask them why. If they say the reason as I can earn more then it is based on greed. If they say I want to serve it is based on purpose of life 7G.

When we analyse from which 'G' level we have our ambition we get a clear picture of what we are. When we understand we can clearly upgrade us to the higher 'G' levels.

There are four states of consciousness, when you have 'i' consciousness and thoughts, you are in the waking state, the state in which you are right now. In this state, 'I' has more frequency than your thoughts. So you can control your thoughts.

When you are without I consciousness but having thoughts, you are in the dream state. In the dream state, your thoughts are at a higher frequency than your 'I' consciousness. That is why you have thoughts in your dreams but you are not able to control them. When you are without 'I' consciousness and not having any thoughts, you are in the deep sleep state. Normally we are aware of only these three states of waking, dream and deep sleep.

The fourth state is where you have I consciousness but no thoughts. Intensity means being intense every moment in whatever you do. So first you need to be aware of yourself in all the states. The only you can be intense throughout.

• ❖ How many state of consciousness is there?

• ❖ What is wakeful state?

• ❖ What is blissful state?

• ❖ What is dream state?

• ❖ What is unconscious state?

• ❖ Which is the happy state?

• ❖ Intensity has the power to penetrate your states of unconsciousness including deep sleep.

Plain sheet or any sheet or any sheet with shapes drawn on it, different color sketch pen or pencil or color pencil.

Encourage each child to color the paper by doing the line drawing coloring. They must color the whole thing only by doing the line coloring with different color pencil or sketch or pencil.

Intense people will have the perseverance to complete the job.

Talk in more than one language in a sentence with no repetition

To make the children aware of the fact 'you are intelligence'.

Make the children sit in a circle and encourage the children to play the game.

Ask each child to talk in more than one language in a sentence. They must not repeat the words. Each child will get his turn to play the game.

This activity enables them to understand how intelligent and spontaneous they are. They can talk in new languages simultaneously.

Children can do a presentation on the topic of Burning intensity.

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Intensely, the whole conscious inner space was ready. This is the reason just a small inspiration will lead to the unique experience. Intensity is the ultimate technique. Be intense in whatever you do, whether you eat, sing, dance, pray or work be completely into that, in the moment.

Intensity is enlightenment. As of now some part of you is intense while some part of you is lazy. Intensity is the sword with which you can break the mind. Intensity is a strong intention to wake up, the strong intention for fulfillment. Live intensely in the moment. When you eat, intensely eat, let your whole attention and energy be on the food. Enjoy the food with all your senses. If you are drinking water, drink it intensely, become the thirst. Feel the coolness of water going into your mouth.

Your intensity is the only thing that decides when your object of seeking will happen. If the intensity is total, it will happen that moment. If the intensity is not integrated and total, it will take more time because the intensity has to gain strength in that time. Intensity does not depend on the nature of the work or action

• ❖ When all we need intensity?

• ❖ Can we eat intensely?

• ❖ Does nature of work effect intensity?

• ❖ Does nature of action affect intensity?

• ❖ Which decides when you object will happen?

• ❖ What happens when the intensity is not integrated?

• ❖ What happens when the intensity is total?

• ❖ Live intensely automatically be liberated.

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Plain sheet or art sheet Different color kite paper Glue

Ask the child to crush the color paper into small balls and stick with glue on the given picture or plain sheet. Encourage them to crush the paper into as small as possible..

When we enjoy our work difficult things also become easy

Make the children stand in a line. One child has to stand in front of the group. All the other children have 10 sec to remember every thing they could about the one who is in front of them. Then that child hides and the mentor asks questions about that child to other children. Type of questions color of th their eyes, colour of their hair, clothes, shoes and other ojects such as watches, hair bands, bracelets, earrings, belt etc..

This activity enables them to improve their ability of participating, focusing, awareness and understand the fact that when we have intensity we will we aware on even the very minute details .

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Introduce the children about social service and intensity of Buddha. Be very clear if you want to really serve the society, the first thing you need is intensity in your purpose. Doing some social service should be like over flowing. You feel so full, you feel there is nothing more to be done , think I have so much of time, let me do some service to society, it is beautiful. Then it will lead you to happiness.

Some people don't feel relaxed within themselves, they can't sit quietly. There is so much of restlessness within them that they just want to do catharsis in some way. People with this type of attitude, even if they do some service they will be only putting their ego in front. They will only be torturing others.

They will not be serving others. Be very clear, many times you start doing things just for the sake of service, not feeling. You don't feel what you are doing, you don't feel the need of the other person. Service should be overflowing out of your being. It should never be done for some other purpose.

Buddha the enlightened master whatever he decided to follow, he did with complete, unwavering intensity. Whatever you may seek, integrate you energies completely and go for it. You will then see the universe open up to you completely

To make the child understand about social service and intensity of Buddha.

• ❖ What is the first thing you need if you want to really serve?
• ❖ How should social service be?
• ❖ Why do some people doesn't feel relaxed with themselves?
• ❖ Why some people have restlessness?
• ❖ What happens to egoistic people when the serve?
• ❖ What happens to other when egoistic people serve?
• ❖ Can service be done for some purpose?
• ❖ What is the quality in Buddha that made him attain enlightenment?

❖ Have intensity in your purpose to serve. Integrate your energies completely and be happy.

Paint one sheet with black poster color and cut it out into 6 long stripes. Take another plain sheet and cut the sheet into 6 stripes. Now keep the black stripes in row and take the white stripes and keep above and below the black stripes by applying glue. Now take the wool and cut into short pieces and stick it on both ends.

You can do with combination of any two colors or with multi color patterns.

Explain to the children the game. All children must sit in a circle. First person claps, next person sitting to right taps on his thighs using both hands. The next person taps on his head using both hands. Next person claps and the series goes on till some one makes an error.

To make the activity difficult each person does two of the series. First person does clap and thigh next one does head and clap.

Interpret to the children when you are in now with intensity you can be more intelligent and productive.

Children can have quiz program on intensity questions.

• 1. Whether we lead or follow we need to be
• a. Intense
• b. Interested
• c. Involved

• a. Interest
• b. Involvement
• c. Intensity

3. If your consciousness is constantly moving towards the outer world it is called

• a. Intensity
• b. restlessness
• c. responsibility

• a. Intensity
• b. restlessness
• c. responsibility

• a. Intensity is an emotion
• b. Intensity is not an emotion
• c. Intensity is a partial emotion

• b. Intensely being with environment
• c. Intensely being outside

• a. You are driven by ego
• b. you are not driven by ego
• c. you are untouched by ego

• a. you are not open to change
• b. you are open to change
• c. you are resisting to change

• a. becoming is different from being
• b. both are same
• c. are almost the same

• a. your nature
• b. society
• c. cosmos

• a. mind
• b. body
• c. cosmos

• a. logic
• b. society
• c. illogical

• a. connected
• b. liberated
• c. coordinated