Intensity - Vol 3

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.

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.

Safety scissors Paper with shapes drawn on it.

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.

Part 2: Intensity - Vol 3_English_part_2.md

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.