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To Be a Slave of Intensity – Kabir

Published on February 6, 2006 at Words Of Inspiration

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The Slave to Intensity

The sufi Kabir was from India and although born a muslim had as his mentor a Hindu master, he often took things to extemes breaking the boundaries of accepted wisdom and his poetry is often a powerful expression of this…..

“If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive,

do you think

ghosts will do it after?”

this is a brilliant example of it in action…

To Be A Slave Of Intensity by Kabir

Friend, hope for the guest while you are alive.

Jump into experience while you are alive!

Think…and think…while you are alive.

What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death.

If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive,

do you think

ghosts will do it after?

The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic

just because the body is rotten -

that is all fantasy.

What is found now is found then.

If you find nothing now, you will simply end up

with an apartment

in the City of Death.

If you make love with the divine now, in the next life,

you will have the face of satisfied desire.

So plunge into the truth,

find out who the Teacher is,

Believe in the Great Sound!

Kabir says this:

When the Guest is being searched for,

it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest

that does all of the work.

Look at me,

and you will see

a slave of that intensity.

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Jonathan has experience in both the nonprofit and business sectors, working in a consultative capacity and as a project manager with PCTs, charities, the arts, trade unions, businesses and individuals in the areas of Information, motivation, direction and communications development. He has helped organisations as diverse as carers charities and magazine publishers to develop strategy, policy and process to make a more efficient infrastructure. One where staff share in the gains of the organisation and the end user, whether client, patient or customer, receives the highest quality service possible. As well as being an expert in applied information technology and communication he is a qualified and experienced counsellor and motivator.