According to Osho, intensity is the inner unity that arises when all scattered desires converge into a single flame. It is centripetal energy - being wholly one, undivided, centered - in contrast to ex-tensity's fragmentation. In danger, love, or meditation, thoughts drop, the crowd of impulses becomes an individual, and such total concentration opens the way to fulfillment and God.
It’s when everything inside you points in one direction, so you feel completely one and fully present.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
That intensity—yes, how to live it?
I can’t provide Osho’s exact words without the source text; here is a neutral response on living with intensity: 1) Be totally present: Do one thing at a time, with your whole attention. Half-heartedness dilutes energy. 2) Breathe and feel: Let the breath be deep and unhurried; stay in the body. Sensation anchors intensity without strain. 3) Speak cleanly: Say yes when it’s yes, no when it’s no. Clarity concentrates energy. 4) Take small risks daily: Tell a simple truth, try a new action, show a real feeling. Risk keeps the flame alive. 5) Cut distractions: When engaged, silence the unnecessary—notifications, background noise, idle chatter. 6) Care for your energy: Sleep, move, eat simply. A clear system can sustain a bright flame. 7) Practice witnessing: Sit 20 minutes daily; notice breath, sensations, thoughts—without pushing or holding. Awareness sharpens without tension. 8) Create and love: Channel intensity into art, service, relationship.…
Osho, how can the feeling of bliss be cultivated? How to taste that throb of bliss, that thrill, that excitement, that dance of bliss? How can life be filled with it?
The man said, “What difficulty is there in that? We all do the same.” The fakir replied, “If only! The day everyone on earth does just this, no one will need to go anywhere to seek liberation. For when you sleep, you don’t only sleep—you do a thousand other things. Your sleep is a long disturbance, a long agony, a long nightmare. When you eat, you don’t only eat—you do a thousand things. You appear to be eating but you are also at your shop, or in court fighting a case. Whatever you do, you do a thousand other things along with it. No act of yours gathers your whole being. “There is only one practice: when you do something, do it totally. When you work, total work. When you rest, total rest.” Then you keep traveling between the two banks of bliss, day and night—swinging from one to the…
But certain things have been achieved only because some people have been -- maybe the word 'serious' it is not good, but, rather, 'intense'.
Someone has written me a letter. He writes that he believed in someone as if he was bhagwan, a God. For fifteen years continuously he believed in him. Then one day he saw that the man he had believed in was angry He writes that on that day not only did that man become just human -- not a God -- but from that day on "I cannot believe that any human being can ever be bhagwan, can ever be a God." I have written to him that there are two possibilities. "If one whom you believed to be divine became angry, there are two possibilities. Either this man is not divine -- or your definition of divine was wrong!" But no, your definition can never be wrong. This man who you thought was divine must be wrong. Your definition is more meaningful to you than fifteen years of faith…
Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere. The chances of success vary according to the degree of effort.
SUCCESS IS ALSO ATTAINED BY THOSE WHO SURRENDER TO GOD. GOD IS THE SUPREME RULER. HE IS AN INDIVIDUAL UNIT OF DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS. HE IS UNTOUCHED BY THE AFFLICTIONS OF LIFE, ACTION AND ITS RESULT. IN GOD THE SEED IS DEVELOPED TO ITS HIGHEST EXTENT. People ask me, "Why you go on talking every day?" I enjoy; it is just like birds singing. What is the purpose? Ask the rose why it goes on flowering? What is the purpose? I am talking to you because this sharing of myself with you is in itself a value, it has intrinsic value. I am not looking at the result; I am not worried whether you are transformed through it or not. There is no worry. If you listen me, that's all. And if you are also not worried, then transformation can happen this very moment. Because you are worried how to use…
Question: OSHO, WHAT IS INTUITION, AND WHAT IS ITS PLACE IN YOUR RELIGION? When your unconscious and conscious meet because there is nothing repressed in the unconscious -- and that is the moment of their meeting and their merger. At that very moment another great opportunity opens up for you because you are no longer involved with the lower; your whole energy is available for the higher. You are in the middle, the conscious mind. But because the unconscious is there, you remain involved in repressing it, you go on repressing it. It is not a question that once you have repressed it you are finished with it; you have to repress it constantly, because it is coming up again and again. It is just like bouncing a ball; you hit it and it comes back to you.