Two Types of People

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 Two Types of People

There are two types of people who make up the majority of the global populace. People who have high energy and those with low energy. We will have observed children who have very high energy and as an outlet, if they don’t have any physical activity to burn that energy, they end up doing damaging mischief. When we have excess energy and we cannot use it creatively, it becomes destructive, stagnant, and by and by a prison of solid rock is created around us.

There are two types of people - those with high energy and those with low energy. If the high energy people don’t use their energy there will be problems - aggression, anger - anger for no reason at all, and against any and everybody - violence, hatred, jealousy.

Low energy people have a different type of problem - sadness, lethargy, a lack of interested in life, and a dragging and dull attitude. So, the problems of a low energy person need to be tackled in a different way. Such people need more relaxation, and methods which don’t use energy, but rather allow them to relax into the non-tense so that energy is not dissipated in any way. Buddhist methods, Vipassana, are for low energy people. For high energy persons such methods will be a problem. They would not know what to do - so much energy and nothing to do, so the energy becomes suppressed. Dynamic methods and catharsis are for high energy people.

The East is basically low energy: poverty, malnutrition, and centuries and centuries of passivity. The West is high energy. We can divide it into male and female, yin and yang. Male means a high energy person, and female means a low energy person – it has nothing to do with man and woman. So, we are high energy persons, remember that always. Whenever we feel any problem arising, that is simply an indication that we need more work, more creativity. It doesn’t matter what we do, but do something physical - anything physical is beautiful. If we don’t, then the mind uses the energy in circles - round and round.

By and by, as we grow up and start meditating, this energy is turned inwards and helps in keeping us balanced as well as energised. A glow appears around the person and that energy is palpable and can be felt by others.