Intensive meditation does seem to be oxymoronic, too. Meditation will take you down many unknown paths: difficult paths, painful paths, joyful paths... An int

Intensive meditation does seem to be oxymoronic, too. Meditation will take you down many unknown paths: difficult paths, painful paths, joyful paths... An intensive meditation sounds more like a doing, like hitting the gym hard on a 30 day diet plan, rather than a state of being meditative and progressively turning inwards. You can't intensively find your inner peace, as an intense thing isn't a peaceful thing. To my mind, intensive meditation is still going to result in something that feeds the ego, rather than something that feeds the soul. You wouldn't call it intensive if it wasn't ego-driven.