INTENSITY IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
Do not bother about what your intensity should be about. Do not bother about 'towards what'. It should become a quality. Anything you do, whether you touch something or somebody or some object, let the intensity be there, even in that touch.
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 fears, be intense without escaping from this moment. That is what I call intensity.
TECHNIQUE: MEDITATION TO BE INTENSE IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
This is a simple way to bring intensity into your day-to-day activities. It is a way to live your life in meditation.
Every activity that is performed without intensity is a waste. Every moment that you are unaware of is a wasted moment. Every act, every moment that has your intensity is meditation.
You will be surprised to know that even simple, day-to-day activities like eating and drinking can be turned into deep meditation!
We always use our senses in a superficial manner. We use them as gateways to pleasure.
In reality, they can be gateways to deep intensity. Beneath each of the senses lies the center of our being, the seer who is seeing through the particular sense. All senses reach to this level although we are not aware of it.
When we become aware of this phenomenon, every sense activity can be a way to fall deeper in. Everything we perceive, we start perceiving with deep intensity. We fall in tune with our very being.
Duration
Whenever eating, drinking, and day-to-day activities.
INSTRUCTIONS
When you start eating a meal, do it as if it is the first time you are tasting food in your life!
Normally we don't chew our food, we just throw the food into our body. We hardly taste the food.
Now whenever you eat, eat with intensity!
Be aware when you are picking up your food. Enjoy the feel of it in your mouth. Roll it on your tongue and taste it.
Taste your food completely. Become the taste. We never really taste our food, because our attention is somewhere else.
When you really feel the sweetness of the food, you can feel it not only in the mouth but also in your entire body.
While drinking water, feel the fluidity, feel the coolness of the water as it goes down your throat and into your stomach. Close your eyes and drink it slowly, enjoying every sip. Feel the coolness intensely, not only in the mouth but also in the entire body.
When you eat with intensity, with awareness, with respect, your food itself becomes amrut, the elixir of immortality.
In Sanskrit there is a saying, Annam Brahma (Food is God). When you approach these simple activities with intensity and reverence, you will experience this truth.
INTENSITY IN ACTION
How do I live enlightenment in every moment?
There are two things that you need to do to achieve enlightenment. One, work intensely, and the second, continuously when you work meditate on the unending infinite Cosmos.
This means unclutching and aligning with the Cosmos. If you unclutch, surrender the results of your work, and work, you will align yourself with the Cosmos.
Work at least twelve hours a day, let there be no physical and mental activity, for at least twelve hours a day. Oh God, it looks too much! I tell you, for whatever reason either to be productive to the society, make your life rich, or through social service in some way work at least twelve hours a day.
The funny part is that you will never be able to work for twelve hours if working for profit. Your body will say after a maximum of six hours of work, 'no enough work, this is enough to keep myself comfortable. I don't want to work for that comfort. It will strike.'
Then how to work for twelve hours? The remaining six hours decide to work for some non-profit activity. I tell you non-profit activity is the ultimate creativity service. It is the ultimate creativity.
If you learn the trick of service, means the knack of serving without remembering the result. Non-profit work is the expression of the highest form of creativity. You get all the opportunities and possibilities to express your creativity.
Please understand, an empty mind is the devil's workshop. An empty body is the devil's residence. Devil works for a few hours and resides in his house for a long time.
A lazy body is the devil's residence. An empty mind is the devil's workshop. I am giving a completely different insight into some of the orthodox translation.
Reduce the activity that comes out of the idea that you are the body. When you unclutch you will start living, being active, alive, and intense. So understand the ultimate aligning to the awakening happens by intense working.
When the aligning for the awakening happens, even the words you utter will be a great service to the world. You can even serve the world not only physically, but also by uttering
the right words.
Giving the right truths, the right understanding, to people. Even that can be a very powerful, amazing service to the world.