Intensity - Vol 6

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 self-contradictory. 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."

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.

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 .

Part 2: Intensity