The Seed

Great Intensity

One can live as intensely and totally in one second as people live in their whole life. But their living is very thin, spread all over a long time. That does not mean that they are the fortunate ones, because authentic living needs great intensity and great totality, not a thin layer. A lukewarm survival is not living. But if you know that the next moment you are going to die you will drop everything that you were involved in, and the only priority will be to know yourself.

Live as totally and passionately as possible, because it is through intense living that you will find God. God is nothing but life lived at the optimum, with total abandon, a dance danced so totally that the dancer disappears; only the dance remains. Then you have found and you have come home.

The greatest courage in life is to live totally, in spite of all the priests and all the people who want you not to be joyous, not to be living totally.

Anything that is totally lived is equal to meditation. You don’t need meditation. And a man who is living moment-to-moment, absolutely naturally, according to himself, has nothing to regret, is not a failure. Hence, a happy man, a blissful man, needs no God.

How to live each moment totally…. It is not a question of duration, the question is of depth. Only those who live in depth know what life is all about. Those who live in duration live horizontally, superficially. Their life is a mask; there is no authenticity in it. Hence, I say Indian culture is neither alive nor dead but living in a kind of suspension, in a kind of limbo. It is a ghost culture: all that is significant, all that makes life a joy, has been dropped because it is dangerous, and all that is stable, permanent, plastic, has been gathered because it is safer.

God is not found by praying on your knees; God is not found in the temples and churches. God is found in intense living – a life of depth, depth and totality, and a death also of depth and totality. Live totally and die totally, and God is yours and truth is yours.

God is not found by praying on your knees; God is not found in the temples and churches. God is found in intense living – a life of depth, depth and totality, and a death also of depth and totality. Live totally and die totally, and God is yours and truth is yours. You are always given a single moment; you are not given two moments together. If you know the secret of living one moment, you know the whole secret of life. Because you will always get one moment – and you know how to live it, how to be totally in it.

God doesn’t want anybody to die for him – God is not a sadist. If you want to live for God. then he wants you to blossom and flower for him. He wants you to eat, drink and be merry for him. He wants you to celebrate for him. He wants you to live your life as totally, as fully as possible.

Live deeply, live totally, live wholly, so when death comes and knocks at your door you are ready – ready like a ripe fruit to drop. Just a small breeze comes and the fruit drops; sometimes even without the breeze the fruit drops from its own weight and ripeness. Death should be like that. And the readiness has to come through living.