INTENSITY: PASSION AND PATIENCE
Understand, intensity is not seriousness. Intensity means deep passion and deep patience, and strong will and strong prayer. Strong will is passion. Deep prayer is patience.
If you understand intensity as just will, passion, you become serious.
All seriousness is a sickness!
I have seen many so-called spiritual people who are very serious.
Yogi spirituality is suffering with this one constipation: Long Face! Yogi means a long face. If you see a yogi or some spiritual guy or someone who claims to be a spiritual guy with a long face, you don't need to pay your respects to him; he needs medicine for constipation!
Really, so many times seriousness is associated with intensity. No! Intensity is sincerity but not seriousness. You will be intense and be relaxed.
If you have only passion without patience, it will raise the number of your thoughts. It will lead to outer world-success, but never to inner world success.
Same way, just a deep patience and acceptance, without having thoughts, may lead to inner-world success, silence, peace, but not to the ultimate enlightenment itself. If you have only patience, you will deeply accept everything, you will be successful in having peace in the inner world. However, you will not have the ultimate success, the enlightenment itself, which gives you the outer and inner world fulfillment.
So enlightenment is the totality of the passion and patience. Intense number of thoughts, with the deep silence – means, your very frequency will be different. In intensity, you do not have just passion, but you will have patience also. You will become complete. You will become fulfilled. You will just radiate the truth.
1. BLISSFUL DANCING
TECHNIQUE: CENTERING IN DEEP SILENCE
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Dancing is a powerful form of meditation for experiencing intensity! Both formal dance and free dance can be meditation techniques.
Free dancing is also a great cathartic technique. Here, the idea is to lose yourself in the dance. A seasoned dancer will be able to do this even in formal dancing, because he or she is no longer conscious of the rules. Just like we speak correctly
without feeling grammar as a hindrance, the seasoned dancer will dance naturally, even when the dance form is formal. But if you are an amateur, then it is better to enjoy 'free dance', or you will feel restricted by the rules.
Free dancing means that there are no steps, no rules, nothing. Just let your body move as it pleases. Let the dance flow freely. Be playful and enjoy yourself.
Become part of the tremendous energy of dancing.
There are two stages in free dance: dancing and resting.
Step 1 (21 minutes)
Close your eyes and begin to dance. Don't bother about the steps. Let your body be free to move as it wishes. Play music if you want.
Don't be concerned about how you look, how your clothes look. No one is watching you. This is not a performance.
As you continue to dance in this fashion, more and more energy will surge inside you, and you will keep going. The more you dance, the more energetic you will be! You will not feel tired at all.
Enter deeply into the dance. Dance as fast as possible, as freely as possible. Forget yourself totally. Just become the dance.
Step 2 (10 minutes)
At the end of twenty-one minutes, wherever you are, in whatever position you are, just drop down on the floor. Lie down. Be silent and still.
In the sudden change from frantic motion to sudden stillness, you will experience a moment of blankness. There will be no thoughts. You will experience a deep silence.
In a few moments, the thoughts will start coming back. Watch the thoughts calmly. Don't fight with them, don't get lost in them. Just remain aware. You will become aware of a lasting peace inside you, a great silence that remains even after the thoughts return.
Carry this peace, this silence with you throughout the day. Carry the silence into your sleep. You will wake up feeling new and refreshed.