Are You Enlightened ?

The Spiritual Magic Quadrant (see below in this article)

The answer of this question is simple : Yes, every human being is already enlightened !  There is nothing lacking in his being. But the real question is “have you Realized your Enlightenment ?”. Of course, very few persons in all history of this planet have realized their enlightenment. So, this article is about Enlightenment Realization. It first tries to define in general terms this state of human consciousness. Then we will see the process leading to the realization of her or his enlightenment. In the conclusion, we will discuss The Light Criteria. These are questions meant to help us having an insight into our own state of consciousness. There is no problem when you realize you enlightenment, you will know it for sure. But the danger is before this realization. You can stuck somewhere in the path. You may also have beautiful and realistic dreams. So the Light Criteria can help us avoid these pitfalls.

This article is divided into two parts and a conclusion, as follows :

Table of Contents

1- What is enlightenment ?

1.1- The Light Being

1.2- The Hollow Bamboo

1.3- The Consciousness Flower

1.4- The Religious

1.5- The Eternal

1.6- The Blissful

1.7- The Miraculous

1.8- The One

2- On the Path to The Realization

2.1- The Awakening

2.2- The Spiritual Magic Quadrant

2.3- Satori and Samadi

2.4- Enlightenment Pitfalls

2.5- The Master, A Guide In The Path

2.6- Masters and Frequency Holders

3- Conclusion : The Light Criteria

1- What is enlightenment ?

1.1- The Light Being

An enlightened person is a human being who has attained to clarity of Mind. He is no more darkened by any thought. All his being is crystal clear. There is no dark corner in his body-mind. A dark corner is a poetic image to describe some hidden patterns located deep down in the layers of mind and acting from there. So from time to time, these hidden patterns take possession of the human being who starts acting unknowingly and accordingly to these hidden mind blue prints. An enlightened being never acts like an automaton from learned memories or embedded thoughts or emotions. Instead he responds freshly to any situation. So he is as unpredictable as Life is.

1.2- The Hollow Bamboo

The great curse in human being is their ego. But the ego has no real existence; it is just the process of continuous thinking. And human beings are deriving their personality from thinking, from mind : their story, their family, education, beliefs, etc.
In the other hand, an enlightened human being has no more compulsive thinking. His mind is quite. He is using his mind when needed, otherwise, there is no need. So an enlightened person has no ego. He has disappeared as far as the individuality derived from mind is concerned. He has died to the past and never projects himself in the future. The psychological time has stopped for him. He lives in the present moment.
In this state of no thinking, the enlightened being becomes a hollow bamboo; in total tune with the Universe. And when the Universe, or God wants to express himself through this person, there is no hindrances. God can sing any song through him. The enlightened person is no more a doer. God's light shines through him.

1.3- The Consciousness Flower

The science can trace Life Evolution from the Big Bang with its tremendous, inconceivable and undifferentiated Energy to the richness and complexity of Life on Earth today. Human beings, on Planet Earth seam to be on the top of this evolution of Life. But the majority of humanity as we know it is not the last stage of evolution. Some rare individuals has attained the next step of evolution : the consciousness aware of itself. As human being we are conscious of the outer world. We can also direct our mind to observe itself, to analyze itself. But this is not a real self awareness. In fact when the subject (observer) and the object (observed) merge and become one, there is the self awareness of consciousness. And this the ultimate flowering of Life as we know it.

1.4- The Religious

All prophets are enlightened persons. All prophets tap in the same source. Of course when expressed in human languages and in different circumstances their teachings take different and often contradictory forms. But in fact the contradiction is just on the surface. Moreover, sometimes it is hard to bring some experiences to people with limited understanding. So the enlightened prophets use parables to facilitate the understanding or use them as signposts to the Truth. Later, these parables are interpreted literally and this one explanation why there are so many religions despite their unique source. Only an enlightened person is really a religious since he is all the time in tune with the Universe. We can also access this dimension temporarily. During these moments we are religious. True religion is not the practice of a ritual. No, rituals are just devices created by enlightened persons to help human beings accessing religiosity. They are not the goal but a mean.

1.5- The Eternal

An enlightened person realizes and knows first hand that his is not his body/mind, he is not the form Life has taken in him. His body is born and will die but he know that he is Life. He is never born and will never die. Time has stopped for him. He is in the eternal present moment witnessing the unfolding of his own life situation. An enlightened person realizes that his real being was always here and now, without any beginning nor any end. He realizes also that he is not separate from Life itself. So he has always enjoyed all life forms.

1.6- The Blissful

You can be happy, but happiness passes. You can enjoy experiencing an object, but this joy will subside when the object is no more or has lost its novelty. But blissfulness is out of emptiness. It is not a by product of any thing of this world. It is a flowering of meditation, of nothingness. Bliss comes out of the realization of his oneness with the whole Universe. The joy of Life bubbling everywhere in the Universe is simply felt in the core of the enlightened being.
Also the transcendence of Life itself and the communion with the Beyond is probably the real source of bliss.

1.7- The Miraculous

The enlightened person is no more as an ego. He is no more a doer. He is just a witness. And the miracles happen around him. He is attracting divine energy and dispatching it around him. The ego creates a barrier and no ego create a natural low potential energy attracting the Energy of Universe. Life is a miracle. Creation is an ongoing miracle. And an enlightened person is co creator with God. Not by doing. Just by being. Since he is available, vulnerable, Life uses him as a vehicle for its creations, its transformations.

1.8- The One

As human mind is concerned, we are not one but many. Our mind is a flux, a set of contradictory thoughts, each pulling us in its direction. But an enlightened person is one. He is no more identified with any idea, how can any thought pull him any more ? He is self centered and one. He has also a knowing, a realization that his is one with the whole Life, the whole Universe. This oneness is not an idea in his mind but his own realization.

2- On the Path to The Realization

2.1- The Awakening

The awakening is the most important milestone in the lifetime of a human being. Awakening simply means that the human being is no more totally identified with his mind. There are now breaches in his ego, aka identification with mind. He knows that he is not the content of his mind. The enlightenment is instant but the awakening is a process. During this process there is more and more dis identification from mind, but the human being can fall again and again in his sleep or his dream like life.
The awakening is a great blessing since the experience of life is far more better during the awakening process. The awakening is the real start of spiritual search. Many so called seekers are just in an ego trip. They are still identified with the content of their mind. But a real spiritual seeker don't believe any more what happens in his mind. Even when he is trapped in his mind, a moment later he is again aware of this trap. By this awareness he is no more fueling thoughts in his Mind. One day, when the natural conditions are there he will realize, instantly, his enlightenment. It is like heating or cooling water; when pressure and temperature are at the right amount, the water evaporates or crystallized instantly. The equivalent of heating/cooling is awareness. The more you are aware and dis identified from your mind the more you are nearer to “natural conditions” of enlightenment realization.

2.2- The Spiritual Magic Quadrant

The company Gartner has devised a technique for classifying businesses in information technology domains, called Gartner Magic Quadrant. I would like to use a similar presentation in spiritual matter, with the following picture :

The Spiritual Magic Quadrant

The horizontal axis is about Awareness and Knowing (not knowledge). When you go to the right you are more aware and you know deeper by your Being not your Mind.
The vertical axis is about Separateness and Happiness. When you go to the top you feel more oneness and more blissfulness.
So the four categories defined by this Spiritual Magic Quadrant are as follows:

1. The Happy Ignorants : they are all the living and creatures below the man consciousness. They are not aware of themselves and the world as the man is. In the other hand they have no ego, so they feel the oneness with the Universe and its consequence : blissfulness. In this category, animals are more aware then plants but the latter are less suffering.
   
2. The Unhappy Ignorants : this is the worse category : almost as ignorants as the animals but because of their ego, they are feeling separate from the Universe with its consequence : feeling threatened, unhappy and suffering. In the bottom of this category there is the Egoic  Man : he suffers the most and can't see reality as it is. He looks through thick clouds of thoughts, judgments, knowledge, scriptures, etc. He misses completely the reality. The Spiritual Seekers has less and less ego. The less is his ego the more is his happiness and the more is his knowing of the reality without Egoic Mind Distortion.
   
3. The Unhappy Knowers : all spiritual seekers attain to this category sooner or later. Their Mind become almost quite. They have clarity in their vision to reality since their Egoic Mind is almost nil. But there is still a slight ego giving the seeker still a feeling of separateness. He has not disappeared utterly. He is happier than the former category but he don't know real bliss. This state is very dangerous since the seeker has progressed tremendously in his path but he is still in the horizontal time line. He can still regress to the lower category. Many seekers stay stuck in this category for many lifetimes. They have not yet realized their enlightenment, even if they are far more advanced than the previous category. Here, the help of a master is needed to take the last jump.
   
4. The Blissful Knowers : This is the category of Enlightened Persons. In fact we are here in another dimension of consciousness which can't be depicted in a picture. Here the Man, fully aware and awakened, Knows Himself. He is also blissful. When arriving to this category, it is a vertical transition, we can't fall to a lower category. It is impossible. So An enlightened person can't any more “downgrade” himself to the unhappy man. But amazingly, because of the realization of oneness, he can express himself through a wind breeze, a cloud in the sky, a shining star, a blade of grass or even through a horse, a dog or a cat. He can shine through them, but he can't pass the layers of an egoic mind. This is perhaps the meaning behind parables of mystics coming as dogs or other animals.
   

2.3- Satori and Samadi

The Samadi in eastern traditions means the realization of one's enlightenment. It is like an explosion of consciousness who becomes aware of itself. It is self awareness. With his first Samadi a human being becomes an enlightened person. He can't regress to a lower level of consciousness. He is no more of this world. He can't any more be identified with any Mind or any Body. He is one with the source of Life. An enlightened person can have many Samadis. With each Samadi he is accessing greater levels of consciousness.
In Sufi tradition the equivalent of Samadi is “Al Fath الفتح” or “Opening”. A human being who has attained to “Al Fath” becomes “Aref billah عارف بالله” or “A Knower (of God)”. The enlightened person knows God. Knows Himself.

Satori in eastern traditions is a glimpse of Samadi. Sometimes when the conditions are there, the seeker realizes a silent mind. Realizes the blissfulness. Realizes the Oneness. In short, he accesses momentarily the Samadi or Enlightenment state. Even if it is not permanent, when a seeker has his first Satori it is a great event in his path. With Satori he knows what does it means Samadi. So he is confirmed in his search.
In Sufi tradition the equivalent of Satori is “Al Hal"  or "الحال" which can be translated as “State” or “Situation”. The word “Al Hal” has the meaning of impermanence like in the word Satori. So each seeker, becoming more and more aware of his being, he can have one or many Satoris. Each Satori is longer and deeper that the previous one. When he is ready, he has his Samadi. He is enlightened.
All enlightened persons don't have Satoris. They can have directly their Samadi and become instantly Enlightened.

2.4- Enlightenment Pitfalls

There are many pitfalls which can prevent a seeker from realizing his enlightenment. Here are some of them :

• blissfulness and silence : when the mind becomes more and more silent, there is a moment where almost no thought arises in human mind. This is a moment of great bliss, great peace. Very pleasant. And the seeker can stay there enjoying but his ego has not utterly disappeared. There is still a very slight ego. This is the trap : the seeker has to go ahead, to move, not to stay in this state. Since if he don't continue to the ocean, his calm and beautiful lake will soon loose his freshness and become rotten. Which means that the ego can again return to the command of his being.
  
• Fear the take the last jump : when the Samadi is there it is a total annihilation, an utter disappearance far more deep than any previous death. At this moment, the seeker can lack the guts to make the last jump... he will miss. Osho put this in a beautiful image when he said “That is the ultimate death. It appears like the ultimate death. Even the Ganges shudders, trembles before it falls; even the Ganges looks backwards, thinks of past days and memories, and the beautiful time on the plains and the tremendous energy phenomenon in the hills and the glaciers. At the last moment when the Ganges is going to fall into the ocean, it lingers a little while more. It wants to look back, think over memories, beautiful experiences. That has to be also watched. Don’t linger. When the ocean comes, allow: merge, melt, disappear !”
  
• Miracles doer : when the seeker starts having Satoris, many miracles can happen around him. He can also have new capabilities. Of course, he is not a doer. It happens because his ego is no more there to prevent what the Universe wants to do. But if the seeker think that he is a doer, that he can “use” or “exploit” his new capabilities, he is lost. He can still for a more little time “do” miracles, but he is fueling again his ego, and one day he will become again fast asleep with a new “spiritual” ego far more dangerous than the previous “materialist” ego.
  
• Mind Projections : this is perhaps the most hidden and hazardous pitfall. Since the Mind is threatened by the process of awakening and the Mind is very powerful, very cunning, it can lead the seeker in false routes, in beautiful ego trips painted with “spiritual” dreams. If really you “will” attain something, the Mind will create this thing for you. For example you know that “blissfulness” is a trait of an enlightened being, so your mind will make you happy. He will help you to believe that you are in continuous and eternal bliss. Even if there is sometimes real sadness, the Mind will help you repressing this sadness and saying to yourself “I am happy”. Or it can convince you that it is out of your compassion that you are sad : "You are sad because of other's suffering, but really your are blissful" ! So instead of taking this authentic sadness as a hint that you are still in the path, that you should navigate this ripple on the surface to go deeper in your being, you are not true to yourself and you prefer following your Mind Projection. I can't list here all Mind Projections that our mind can make to delude us, but if we are true to ourselves, if we are systematically doubtful about any thing we can see, grasp or understand with our Mind, we can avoid this trap.
  

2.5- The Master, A Guide In The Path

The master is a must for a seeker. You can't realize your enlightenment without the guidance of a master. The master can help you not to fall in the pitfalls exposed in the previous paragraph. Every seeker is confused since he has no more confidence in his mind. He knows very well that realizing the Truth is far beyond mind, how can he trust the mind ? So confusion is the natural consequence of taking the path to self realization. This is also a good criterion to know if you have not caught a new “spiritual” ego. If you are not confused, if you have crystal clear ideas about your path, then know well that your ideas are simply a newer ego. Be careful of this trap. So it is natural that you are confused as a seeker. The master is always here to send you, directly in your heart some signs to help you to be more confident and trust your heart. Confusion is still there in the Mind but the heart is more and more confident. He knows that he is on the right path.

We saw also that enlightenment is a natural phenomenon. It is an evolutionary state of Life which will come sooner or later to every human being. But the natural path can be very, very long. The master's teaching is a shortcut in the path to enlightenment realization. Otherwise the natural course of things can take countless lifetimes before awakening. But when you are awaken, there is no difference if you have realized it in one hundred or one billion lifetimes. When you realize your eternity, time has no meaning. But the master, when he sees our suffering, and he has realized the bliss, he wants to help us by his teaching to shorten our suffering. He is still a human being, he has just extinguished his ego, so he knows very well our problems, our suffering and out of compassion he offers us a shortcut in our natural path to enlightenment.

The great question is how to find a master ? With all fake gurus and false masters in this world, how can a seeker find a real master ? The answer is simple : you can't find a master. The master only can and will find you. There is always a master for a true seeker. The problem is not the fake master but the false seeker. You can be in presence of a real master and miss him. It happens all the time. So the first step to “find” your master is to be more and more aware of your mind, your emotions and listen to your heart. You have to develop the sensitivity to listen to the master present in your own heart. In the beginning the master's voice in your heart will be hardly audible. But by silencing your mind you will be more and more able to hear your master's voice. And when you are really ready to take the jump, the master will be there to guide you. In the Sufi tradition the master who appears systematically to every true seeker who becomes ready is named “Khidr or Khadir”. “Khadir” is not a historical person who guided Moses. No, it is a “generic” name of the master who appears to every seeker when the time is right.
So instead of searching for a master outside, start by hearing you inner master.

2.6- Masters and Frequency Holders

All enlightened persons are not masters. A master is an enlightened person who the Universe or God uses to spread a kind of teaching when the Universe knows it is useful to do so. But many enlightened persons are not known at all. They are persons living an ordinary life in their societies. They have no apparent contribution to humanity. In fact they are a great blessing for all the living on the Planet. Eckhart Tolle used to call them “Frequency Holders” since they are attracting and keeping stillness on Earth. Their light beings is capable, naturally, of pouring God's Love and blessing to all livings beings on Earth. So don't be deluded by the outside appearance of human beings. Some of them are really of the same caliber of great masters like the Buddha, Jesus or Mohamed but they live a simple and discrete life as shop keepers, artisans, farmers, etc.

3- Conclusion : The Light Criteria

The following criteria  :

• Are not meant to judge other's enlightenment. Since it is none of your business if others are enlightened or not.
• Are not meant either to know if you are enlightened. Since when you will realize your enlightenment, you will know it for sure and you will not need any kind of mind stuff, like this article, to know if you have really realized or not.
• But they can be helpful to know that you have not yet realized your enlightenment !

May I also remind you of the instant aspect of Realization Of Enlightenment. You cannot Realize progressively, in the time. It is timeless and instant. The process of awakening is in the horizontal time, you can progress (or regress) in this time-line. But when you Realize, it is a sudden shift from 0% to 100% with no intermediate states nor possibility of regression to a lower state of consciousness. So if one of the following criteria is not fulfilled, you have not realized. You are still a seeker on the path. You can be more or less advanced than others but you are still in this world, sharing the same level of “(un)consciousness” as the common earthling. Your ego is still there. But even the slightest ego can be a seed to a big strong ego ... later in the time.

The following Light Criteria are simply the opposites of the traits exposed in the first paragraph.

1. If you are still subject from time to time to a repetitive pattern of your being triggered by some external or internal stimulus, then you have not yet realized. No matter if you can repress this pattern and hide it from others. Be true to yourself. An enlightened person is aware of the pattern from its birth deep down in the layers of his being. He is watchful of it from the beginning and he can choose to play it or not. But he can't be trapped in a moment of non awareness and find himself playing, then repressing the mind pattern. In the criterion above I talked about “external or internal” stimulus. External is clear : an interaction with others provoke the Mind Pattern. The internal could be a simple thought coming to your mind and automatically triggering an internal reaction due to a hidden Mind Pattern.
   
2. If there the slightest thought that you are identified with, you have not yet realized. No matter if the thought is good or bad, spiritual or mundane. You can't have any mind definition of who you really are. If, for example, you have a clear idea in your mind of the “purpose” of your life, then you have not yet realized.
   
3. If there is still in yourself an “observer” and an “observed”, then you have not yet realized. The Realization is a strange state beyond conventional Mind where the energy which usually “shines” from mind to the objects to light them and know them. Instead of this linear light originating from the mind, in self realization, the light of the mind is turning back to know itself and merge with itself. This phenomenon is unknown for conventional human mind. So if you still conceive yourself as an object in your mind, be it a sophisticated object, be it the ultimate scientific conceptual object, then you have not yet realized.
   
4. If you are not a total witness of you own life situation, then you have not yet realized. If you are still a doer, not a witness of you own life, then you have not yet realized. If, for example, your body is asleep and you are not there as a witness enjoying seeing your body taking a rest, then you have not yet realized. If you are interacting in a usual life situation, for example talking to somebody and you are not there witnessing both the other and yourself while they are discussing, then you have not yet realized.
   
5. If you have not realized your eternity, then you have not yet realized. If the past and future are more meaningful than the eternal present, then you have not yet realized. If you can't see yourself witnessing your true Life beyond your birth and death of your body, then you have not yet realized.
   
6. If your blissfulness comes not out of emptiness, then you have not yet realized. If you are blissful because of some external or internal object, thought, situation, then you have not yet realized. The bliss of an enlightened person is flowing from nothing. If there is something behind your happiness, then you have not yet realized.
   
7. If you do miracles, then you have not yet realized. Miracles are bound to happen to an enlightened person, but he is not a doer. He is just a witness. If there is in you the slightest thought, pride or joy that you are, in some extent, behind some miracle;  either in your being or in your surrounding, then you have not yet realized.
   
8. If you are many, then you have not yet realized. Many start with two. If you see in this world at least two entities : yourself and the rest of the universe, then you have not yet realized. The enlightened person come to realize deeply, not to understand intellectually, that he is not separate from anything in this Universe. He realizes deep in his being that he is one with the blade of grass under his feet and one with the far galaxy in the sky. When you are one with something you can sense your influence on it and its actions on you.
   
9. If you pass successfully all the eight criteria exposed above, it is not a guaranty that you have realized since your Mind can make a story around all these subjects and make you believe in this story.
   

So no need to stress that it is almost impossible to say if you have realized or not until the last final step. And this is why a master is needed. To push you and prevent you from resting too soon. And this is also why your master will find you when you are ready to take the last jump. Not before. When the right time is there, you will die. Utterly die. A total annihilation. And when you are no more, you will be born as God. The Sufi poem says :

حتى تفنى فى الله *** ثم تبقى بالله

which can be translated “Until you disappear (fana) in God, then you stay (baqa) by/as God”. The literal translation of “بالله" is “by God” but I added “As God” since the Sufi Poems have always many layers of understanding. I have the feeling that the keyword here is “تبقى” from “baqa بقاء”and in Islamic tradition “Albaqi” is a name of God since He is the only Being who survives all other things in the Universe. So when you disappear, you become “Albaqi”, hence my translation “As God”.

I am a spiritual ego ... but I' curing myself

Source Photo : The ego's bad rap

In a previous post,we saw that our ego is the identification with the contents of our mind. We also realize that this identification is the main source of many diseases in the world during thousands and thousands of years. In this text, we will see that we are either fully awaken or we are an "old good" ego. Perhaps a spiritual ego, but still an ego ... ! There is no area between a Buddha and an ego ! This is the bad news, dear reader :-(
The good news is the fact that each one of us, fellow seeker, is probably experiencing the most significant event in his lifetime. Spiritual ego or not, the qualitative leap has already happened : you know that you are not the content of your mind. Each one of us is likely living a unique and sacred experience. A beautiful cosmic event ! And this is not a poetic exaggeration. This beginning of awareness of the Consciousness of itself, at a large scale on Earth, is probably the major milestone in the wonderful evolution of human consciousness on this Planet. Technology and Science are nothing comparing to this huge evolution. Mind has produced Science and Technology, Beyond Mind is producing the New Man. We are really so blessed, so fortunate ! Deep and infinite gratitude to the Life ! 

This article is about this beautiful tale called human awakening and its corollary : spiritual ego.

Spiritual Ego

All spiritual teachers stress the fact that enlightenment or awakening is timeless. It is not for tomorrow. It is not in the future. It is not in another world. It is simply here and now. Either you are awaken or you're not. Either you're a Buddha or you're an ego. If you think you will be a Buddha, you're missing the point by introducing psychological time and instead of being closer, you're going away from enlightenment ! It is puzzling for the mind ! He starts being more “spiritual”, more loving, more compassionate and in this very doing, he is cutting the ground from under his own feet ! Isn't that unfair ? What is wrong in trying to be “spiritual” ? What is wrong in doing good things ? What is wrong in thinking and practicing beautiful ideas ?
Nothing is wrong with all that of course … if you don't identify with the new “spiritual” mind. When there is a spiritual awakening, we start changing our behavior towards human beings, towards life and life situations. We become more loving, more compassionate and in most cases, these changes are beneficial for our environment. They are of course a welcome changes, a blessing for individuals and the planet. But until our personality has totally dissolved, until our mind is utterly silent, what we are doing is just replacing some ideas, some behaviors with others. We also substitute our old beliefs with some less strong ones. Moreover, not all our doing is originated from our core being. Most of them are still originated from our “new” mind, our “new” spiritual thinking our new set of thoughts ! Last but not least, since we are not yet enlightened and we don't really know first hand The Truth and since we love so much our spiritual teachers or gurus, we are on a slippery slope leading us to the belief of many things our teachers say they have known. They warned us not to believe, but to experience what they are talking about. We can't listen to this warning. Since we are still trapped in our mind, we believe first in those ideas and we hope that in some future we will experience them. This is the spiritual ego : an identification with a new set of thoughts, ideas, known to be “spiritual”, “new age” or any other label you give them.

Escaping the unescapable

We've just seen how the Spiritual Ego is almost an inevitable outcome for any spiritual seeker. We can't avoid the mind. Until we're enlightened, we can't escape the mind. How can we break the vicious circle of thinking and deriving a personality from the process of thinking ?
“Simple” : alertness or watchfulness is our friend, our Saviour !
How does it work ?
If you have a new “good” thought or a “good” doing, just look at it. Don't think about it as a “good” thought or behavior. It is neither good nor bad. It is what it is. Don't label it. It is the product of this moment. Don't be ashamed or proud of it. If you enjoy the doing, do it. If you don't, drop it. In either cases, be watchful of your doing, thoughts and emotions. Don't forge a new personality out of them. You're not your doing, your thoughts or your emotions. You are the consciousness beyond all that. You are the space in which all those acts, emotions and thinking emerge and subside. They all pass, and you are always here as the witness.
So if you want not to replace an old ego by a new one, just watch your new ideas, emotions and doings too. They are seemingly new but in fact, it is the ego, aka the identification with mind, in another form. Sometimes the new spiritual ego is stronger than the former ! This is really unfortunate to jump from the frying pan into the fire. So be aware of this trap. Yes, acknowledge and perhaps welcome any new thinking or doing but don't identify with it. It is another thinking. Spiritual or not, it is mind stuff. You will transcend it too. Everything you can see, you can grasp, you can understand, is not you, can't be you. So don't identify with them.
Yes, as a Truth Seeker, you are a Spiritual Ego, but your Ego is weaker than your old one. More important, with the old ego, you were unconsciously and strongly identified. With the new one, you play hide and seek. Sometimes you're asleep and you start believing you're your new personality, but a moment later you're watchful of your sleep and you step out of your mind. This way, you replace your old strong ego with an new one who is weakening every moment, who is burning in the fire of the alertness until it dissolved. An you are free from the mind, spiritual or not, religious or not. You transcend all possible contents of the mind.

Accessing the Timeless Dimension

I stressed before that the introduction of psychological time, in the form of a hope of awakening in the future, is just another thought. Like any other desire, spiritual or not, it is unfortunately a repulsive force pushing us away from enlightenment. But how can we avoid thinking about the future ? We stated before that, as spiritual seekers, we are Spiritual Egos too. Our Mind says logically : if, now, I am not enlightened, I am still an ego and if Buddha state of consciousness is possible for me, it can be only in the future. There is no other possibility : either it is now or in the future. This rationale is logic. But Truth is beyond logic. Truth is simple, yet it is beyond the mind ! So the question is how to be free from psychological time ? how to access the timeless dimension of our core being ? How to be enlightened here and now, not in the future ?
“Simple” : you're already enlightened ! There is nothing to add to yourself, you need just to deepen the awareness of present moment until you realize your true being !
How can we deepen the awareness of the present moment to realize our true being ?
Each time you're aware that you're lost in your personality try to reconnect yourself gradually with your being. You can for example use this three steps method, which essence is derived from Eckhart Tolle Teaching :

• First stage : relax and feel your body and sense perceptions. Pay attention to each part of your body. This automatically shift your consciousness from thinking. Remember this : Your body is your anchor each time you you are lost in thought. While you're feeling your body, activate all your sens perceptions. See, hear, smell and touch with full attention. This will reconnect you with the reality of the present moment.
  
• Second stage : you may remember Neo in Matrix movie, he was told to “Follow the White Rabbit” and a moment later the doorbell rings and a woman with a white rabbit tattoo was there. Following this sign will ultimately lead him to his awakening from the Matrix Dream. Here I shall say “Follow your Breath” ! Try not to change your natural breath pattern, just follow the movement of the air from the exterior to your abdomen and vice versa. Don't think about breathing, just follow the air movement with your attention, your awareness. This will deepen your feeling of your inner body and the connexion with your environment. In this state relaxed, fully aware of your inner body and your environment, watch your mind. If any thought come up don't follow it, don't judge it “good” or “bad”, don't label it, analyze it, just allow it to be and let it go. Soon or later it will go if you don't fuel it by your consciousness. If the thought raises an emotion you will notice it since you're still feeling your entire body. It's beautiful to see the link between thoughts and emotions, but don't start thinking about it or analyzing yourself, just watch, feel and let go.
  
• Third stage : pay attention to the witness in you who is watching the body and the mind. You can't visualize or grasp it in your mind. Just feel and watch the watcher ! This is like facing two parallel mirrors one against the other. It produces an infinity of images. In a similar way, the witnessing of the witness is a great realization and an explosion of consciousness, deepening the feeling of present moment to infinity ... if I can express it so. In this stage, the psychological time stops and the boundaries of your body disappear. You are here and now from and for the eternity and you are one with the Consciousness who pervades the Universe and beyond.
  

These three stages are a way to access the timeless dimension of your being, each time you decide to do it. This process can be done any time, almost in every location. You need nothing to go through the three stages. You're already complete, nothing is missing in your true being. It is the right birth of every body to be in the state of Consciousness described in the third stage above, but not everybody, with any state of consciousness, can go through the three stages. And not anyone who realize the third stage could dwell in it or access it at will. Personally I have not yet realized the third stage. Does it mean I need future to realize it ? No. I'm already in it but I'm not aware of it.
Isn't that just playing with words ? No, I'll put it in another way in the conclusion.

Conclusion

Every time you are aware that you're trapped in your mind identity, instead of dreaming of a future awakening, which is a desire, a thought, introducing the psychological time. Instead of projecting yourself in the future, the very moment the desire come, try to deepen your alertness by going in the inner trip described in the three stages above. Even if you can't go deep and you are stuck in a superficial awareness, don't be disappointed. Every single moment of awareness gained at every stage, even for a fraction of second is important. It is another drop of water poured in your stream. And as you know, drop by drop a dry or little stream become a flowing river which ultimately merge with the infinite ocean. This process seems to need time to evolve : little stream – flowing river – infinite ocean, but it is not. In a narrow vision there is three separate objects stream-river-ocean. In a broader vision, there is one object : different forms of the ocean. You are already the infinite ocean. You are not separate from it. An enlightened person has access to this timeless dimension at will. A seeker can has glimpses of it. To increase the frequency of these glimpses, one has simply to drop any desire in the future, since it is mind stuff, obscuring his inner light. By trying to be receptive every moment, to still our mind every moment, to deepen our alertness every moment; one day, not in the future, but here and now, those glimpses will drown us in God Ocean.

What is the ego ?

Ego Dissolved by the Fire of Presence
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Preamble

This is a spiritual, not a philosophical text. The main difference between the two forms of expression is the fact that a philosophical discussion concerns the mind only. The spirituality is existential. It concerns the core existence of the human being. It is all about the self transformation and has nothing to do with mind information. It helps you to unlearn mind patterns not to learn more knowledge. So you're warned dear reader : don't waste your time reading this text if you're not interested in ideas to be practiced in order to transform yourself. The goal is to be more still, more centered, more alert and more alive. Of course you may find some new information in this article, but instead of accumulating those ideas as knowledge in your mind, you can just play with them, try them, experience them in your day to day life. If it works, it's beautiful. If it doesn't work you can forget all about them.

I'd like to stress the fact that all ideas in this text are inspired by great teachers like Osho and Eckhart Tolle, are expressed in my simple language and are colored by my own humble experience.

Definition of Ego

The ego is in general associated with negative ideas like selfishness or to be self centered. But in spirituality and in Eckhart Tolle Teaching especially, it has a precise meaning : The Ego is the Process of Identification with Thoughts. There are two keywords in this definition : process and identification (with thoughts). So the first aspect of the ego is that it is a process, something dynamic and changing in the time. It is not a stable and unique state, it is a process. The second aspect is identification with thoughts or mind. Since the thoughts are continuously changing, the identification with them is also a flux, hence the dynamic aspect stressed previously. So, in spirituality, the ego has no moral definition, has nothing to do with religion, it is simply the process of identification with mind.

Almost in all cultures in Earth, we agree that a human being is not only the physical body. It is simple for us not to be identified with the body. But it is a far more challenging not to be identified with the contents of our mind. All our personal or collective memories and histories consist of thoughts and ideas in the mind. And we believe that we are those ideas : name, education, nationality, religion beliefs, etc. When the identification is so strong, some people are also ready to kill or to die for their ideas, for their beliefs, hence for the content of the mind. So the belief that we are this content is the ego. If you ask someone who is he, he will talk about his name, family, personal history, diplomas, degrees, etc. All that are thoughts in his mind and he is identified with them. This is the ego.

So what is wrong with being identified with the mind ? Why all spiritual teachers say that ego is the biggest curse for humanity today and a possible cause of our extinction as a species ? I'll expose below some diseases caused by the ego, either at the collective level or at the personal one.

The source of wars

Since the contents of human minds is all different, if we belief we are the mind, we also belief that we are different. But to be different could be a great quality if we think at it as an enrichment. But if we start believing that what we think is right and the other thinking is wrong, the seed of all wars and other calamities is there. And this is unfortunately the fate of humanity since too many centuries.

What if we dissociate ourselves from our mind ? What if we consider the idea that we are perhaps something biggest than the mind ? What if we consider that all contents of our mind is just circumstantial, not existential ? In this case the differences between human beings will dissolve gradually and a true brotherhood or sisterhood will emerge from this simple idea. With ego, we are likely to fight each others in cold or hot wars. With dissociation with mind we're likely to be more loving, more compassionate.

A world of automata

The mind is the the realm of concepts, of ideas. Mind loves abstractions. It is a great tool to make science. In physics, for example, when studying celestial objects movement, even a huge and complex object like the planet Jupiter is abstracted to a single mathematical point where the whole mass of the planet is concentrated in its “center”. This kind of abstraction or simplification is a great tool in science and Mind loves it. So Mind use and abuse of concepts and abstractions, even in day to day life, even in personal and social interactions … And this is precisely the curse. Other human beings are no more living, complex, changing and tremendously beautiful beings. For the thinking mind, they are just concepts : customer, wife, husband, stranger, etc. After the first glimpse to a human being met in the street, the conceptual mind quickly provide some label we attached to the person. And we miss the reality of the being. Even at home when we're back from the office or the factory, me immediately attach labels and definitions to the “objects” at home : wife or husband, kids, television, fridge, etc. Almost we make no difference between inanimate objects and living human beings. We don't acknowledge the reality of human beings and see them just as concepts and abstractions. Even worse, we can attach some negative labels to our fellow human beings : wife or husband could be a synonym of fight, a Muslim is synonym of terrorist, an American is synonym of Satan, etc. The reality of a human being is lost in these labels.
This process of labeling trigger also some predefined and not conscious reactions. If we see a flower in the best case it triggers an automatic sentence as “this rose is beautiful”. If someone irritates us in the traffic, it triggers some predefined pattern of anger, etc.
So when we're identified with mind we're no more alive and alert we just automatically and unconsciously attach labels and react upon some predefined mind patterns and we miss the whole life. We miss the beauty of the world, of the nature, of the human beings. Each living being in this planet is a miracle. Each human being is probably the highest expression of Life in this planet. Even if he or she is unaware of that, behind the thick curtain of thoughts there's Life, there's tremendous beauty. And if we're alert, we can see and appreciate this beauty in every body. In the other hand, when identified with mind we're just an automaton more or less intelligent than man made computers.

Personal suffering

We can suffer either physically from illness for example or psychologically from negative emotions. But emotions are just the expression of thoughts in the body. A thought materialize itself either as an action or as an emotion. When we're identified with the mind, we start being identified with emotions too, especially negative emotions. The process of identification with negative emotions is loved by the ego since it enhanced its self esteem. It is the same process with positive emotions too or with possessions. Ego loves anything that is special to him, either positive or negative.
And this is the source of most suffering in the world. There are certainly objective reasons to suffer, but the main source of suffering is all the negative thoughts created or “picked up” by the mind. 10% is perhaps the original cause of suffering and the other 90% is the negative thoughts created around the original suffering. For example if I'm ill, my mind is likely to create or pick up negative ideas like “what if I couldn't work anymore ? Who will pay my bills ? How will I pay my children education ? Etc. And these negative ideas hurt more than the original illness. The physical illness could be cured in few days but the emotional suffering could last several weeks or months.

How to dissolve the ego

We saw that ego is defined as the process of identification with the mind. The Ego is also the main cause of most of our individual and collective sufferings. How can we diminish the influence of the Ego in our Life ? We can step out of the ego "simply" by watching our thoughts and not identifying with them. We are not the mind and its contents. All our memories, ideas, thoughts, etc, are just dust we've gathered during our lifetime, since we cling to them. This dust covers our internal mirror from reflecting the beauty of the world. If we let go all these thoughts and not feed them with our attention, they will no more contribute to the dust. And the presence gained in this process will help suppress the old dust also. So let's be alert to the incessant traffic of thoughts in our mind and not pay too much attention to them. But beware not to be trapped in the other polarity : fighting or not accepting the contents of our mind. Let's be friendly with our mind. It's a complex, wonderful and powerful tool when used rightly in dealing with practical matters in science or any aspect of practical life. But Mind is also a powerful antenna gathering and accumulating many thoughts circulating around, especially the negative ones. So let's be aware and not enthrone Mind as our master making us running after any thought he gathers. Let's accept all the contents and the traffic of thoughts and ideas in our mind, without judging them and without following them either. Let's create some space between us, as a conscious being, and the incessant traffic in our mind. We can just look at them the same way we look at the clouds passing in the sky. We can appreciate the traffic of thoughts, the numerous forms and shapes they take. We can watch the strategies of the mind to get our attention to pull us towards this or that thought. It is a game with the mind. Let's be playful. The playfulness is the key secret to have a still mind. Since what we resist persist. If we resist a thought, it will gain energy. If we simply watch it, it will pass … too … As any thing in this world.

Concluding

Finally I'd like to share with you a personal experience with my own ego. Sometimes I have to do some new exciting and useful project in my life. So I use my mind to set up the project, make a plan, prepare all the prerequisites, etc. All this mind activity is good and useful. But after finalizing all what I can think and do in the present moment, instead of stopping my mind, be still and live and appreciate the present moment, my mind wouldn't stop. My mind has got so much momentum that it wouldn't stop anymore. I start thinking about future, the outcome of the project, the impact on people, on my own life, etc. Or my mind will replay the same scenario of the imagined execution of the project endlessly. I know that all this thinking is useless. It is either speculative projections about future or stupid repetitive thoughts, but my Ego loves them since they generate emotions of satisfactions. For example satisfaction of being successful in this project or being appreciated by other people, etc. I know all that, but I can't help seeing my mind running at fast speed and not wanting to stop. I try to direct my attention to my breathing or to my inner body, but a few seconds later, the mind restart playing the same record again and again. So instead of fighting my mind and trying hard to stop my mind using some mantras or replacing those repetitive ideas by other ideas; or instead of being angry against my own mind, I just try to be alert from time to time and acknowledge that my mind wouldn't stop, that  my mind has gained too much momentum that it becomes non stoppable. So I laugh to myself and try to remain watchful of my mind in the brief instants between thoughts, and be patient until my mind calms down and the storm is over. Doing so, I don't feed my ego, and all the instants of alertness are not lost, they come fuel the pool of alertness and presence in the core of my being. Next time those instants of presence will be longer, the gaps between thoughts larger, the presence deeper and the ego weaker. And this all what this article is about : how to make our ego weaker and weaker until it dissolves totally.

June 23, 2013, Two Moon : Eckhart in The Heart and a Close Shaving of Our Satellite !

It's a great opportunity to do a world wide meditation with millions of participants around the world with one of the most beautiful spiritual teacher nowadays, Eckhart Tolle. So don't miss this occasion to be still and to join your life energy with million of others fellow human beings. This way we contribute to make a new beautiful earth, where life, stillness, light, love, inner and outer peace prevail. 

So "rendezvous pris" for this coming Eckhart's Live Guided Meditation on June 23, 2013 at 1pm PT (US/Canada Pacific Time), 9pm Casablanca Summer Time (GMT+1).

To register to this event, please visit this page.  To have an idea on how this Live Guided Meditation takes place, please view this video about this Eckhart's Live Meditation two years ago :

The same day; June 23, 2013, the moon will be a full moon located at its lowest distance from earth this year (at the perigee). So il will be a little bigger than a classic full moon (see picture below). For more information about this astronomical event, please visite this page.

Comparaison of a full moon and a "supermoon" Source : earthsky.org

So on June 23, 2013 at night, there will be two moon, one in the sky and one in our heart, Eckhart Tolle. This remind me a beautiful Arabic (Andaloussi) Poem :

رأيتُ الهلالَ ووجهَ الحبيب                 فكانا هلالَينِ عند النَّظرْ   

فلم أدرِ أيهما قاتلي                    هلالَ الدجى أم هلال البشرْ

ولولا التورُّدُ في الوجنتين             وما راعني من سواد الشَّعَرْ

لكُنتُ أظن الهلالَ الحبيبَ           وكنتُ أظن الحبيب القمرْ

فذاك يغيب و ذا لا يغيب            و ما من يغيب كما من حضر

 : Below is a try to translate this arabic poem into english  

I saw the moon in the sky

And my beloved passing by

They're two moons in the sight

Magnificent beauty, wonderful bright

It's so confusing ...

Who's my "assassin" ?

The Earth satellite or my soul mate ?

If there weren't rosy cheeks and black hair,

The moon is my beloved, I'd swear

And my beloved is the moon there

But the moon sets, and my beloved is permanent

Can I confuse who's always present and a dying sphere ?

The New Earth and The Silence of The Sages

The New Earth
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As the date of December 21, 2012 is approaching, I noticed that some great spiritual teachers are becoming silent : no events, no communication, no statement, no explanation. For example, Adrian P. Cooper entered into silence since October 30th. Kiesha Crowther, The Little Grandmother "disapears" since june 2012 and canceled all events supposed to be held in november and december 2012. Eckhart Tolle's website advises us to stay informed but there is no event scheduled. Finally, Swami Rajneesh,  his mystery school is not held since November 2010. What could be the meaning of this silence ? What are we supposed to do in the meanwhile ? are two questions that this article try to give some hints to answer.

1- The New Earth

The earth as we know it is dying. Upon The Global Footprint Network, to satisfy current humanity demands of natural resources and ecological services, we should have 1,5 planet Earths. If all human are consuming like north Americans, we should have 5 planets ! But we have only one planet Earth ... And we are killing her. If we continue as we are doing today, all earth resources will be exhausted bye the year of 2030 and our planet will definitely die. All Earth blinkers are red : Oceans, Forests, Wild Life, all is collapsing at unprecedented scale. At the human level, all man made systems are collapsing : economic crisis, wars, etc. Moreover, man seems to be unconscious about what really he is doing. The Experts, the Specialists don't agree even on the diagnostic, how can they  agree on solutions ? The politicians and businessmen, short term minded, are unable to make the rights decisions.

This is why many sages are talking about New Age, New Earth. Since the old can not continue. He is already dying. Many sages see also in the coming December 21, not only the beginning of a new cycle of the long Mayan calendar, but also a symbolic date of the beginning of the New Age. The birth of the New Earth. Many metaphors are being used, "poles shifting", "Fifth Dimension Lifting", etc. All agree that there is two possible outcomes :

• Humankind will fail in this transition. After unthinkable suffering, Earth will die and all mankind with her.
• Humankind will success and start a new era based on Love and Oneness with Nature. 

These two possibilities are not two alternatives, if one occurs the other is excluded. Probably both will occur together and are going on already now ... How could that be possible ? The next paragraph is a try to put this possibility into simple words ...

2- Vibration levels

It is well known to human science today that all the universe is some kind of vibrations. At quantum level, the building blocks of matter are energy waves, vibrating at tremendous and imperceptible frequencies. What human science has not yet known is that there are many many other subtle and also higher vibrations. The same reality can be perceived at many levels of vibrations. Our body-mind has a level of vibration allowing him to perceive the World around him, the matter, etc. But we can raise the vibration of the body-mind and access other levels of reality. The highest level of energy is Love Energy, which is sustaining and pervading the whole Universe. This energy is not only beyond the detection capabilities of our instruments but also beyond our current understanding.

It seems also that Earth, as a living entity, has its own consciousness, its own vibration level; and can raise it spontaneously or helped by some very caring superconsciousness. Extra Terrestrial intelligence or soul volunteers incarnated on earth  are usually believed to be those supercounsciousness helping us, Earth and human beings, in raising our vibration levels. 

What happens to an entity, be it a human being or a planet, when this entity raises its level of vibration ? It has access to another reality, richer, brighter and infinitely better ! It is like making a leap from one dimension to another one ? Can we, for example compare a line (1D) with an area (2D) or this latter with a 3D space ? No, there is no way to compare them with measurable entities. With each dimension, we access an infinitely richer reality. This is why, often, the 5th dimension metaphor is used to bring to our understanding the quantum leap which happens when an entity raises its vibration level. 

So, firstly, when an entity raises its vibration, it accesses a far more richer reality. Secondly, the entity may disappear from the lower reality... I'll give an example to help understanding this second idea. In deep meditation, some persons feel they are levitating, the gravity has no more effect on them. When they open their eyes, they find they are still sitting on earth. As soon as they close their eyes, the levitation feeling comes again. But some meditators, not only they feel levitating, but their body also levitate a few centimeters above the ground. So in the former case the meditator has accessed another reality but still his body is on Earth. In the latter case, the body has also accessed the higher reality and leaves the lower one ...

3- The silence of the sages

Let's go back to Earth and our sages being silent. If Earth and many human beings are now, and since a couple of years ago, are continuously and increasingly raising their vibrations, they may have already accessed another realm, another richer reality ... They can also, and they probably have the choice to disappear from our common reality ! What are the consequences of these statements :

• Since we are still on Earth, we can conclude that even if Earth, as a living entity, has already "levitated" to a supra dimension, it has left her "body" with us. Thanks mother Earth ! The sages who have disappeared recently may also have accompanied the Earth in her ascension and left us behind ... Or they may, by compassion, have stayed with us even if they have already accessed to the higher dimension. They are silent but they are still with us. 
• We can now understand how the two scenarios described earlier in this article can coexist : an earth with suffering and ultimately death coexisting with a new Earth with Love and Oneness. This is possible if Earth and some human beings raise their vibrations and access another dimension, while the "body" of Earth stay with some other human beings not able to raise their vibrations.
• We can also deduce an amazing consequence : Mother Earth can "liberate" herself by causing some violent cataclysm in her "body". All the humans who already joined her in the upper dimension and have disappeared from our reality, are not affected. But the others died. And the Earth can be liberated and make her "body" join her in the upper dimension ! For The Universe, the death of those humans is not a big problem. They can reincarnate in another planet more suitable for them. Since they are not loving they can continue fighting each others for eons until they wake up. Whereas Earth, now becoming a paradise, can be inherited by those who choose Love. Unconditional Love.

So the silence of the sages could be explained in two manners :

• They have already joined the New Earth in another reality and left us behind.
• The New Earth is already a reality. The sages are already in higher vibration levels. But still, by compassion, they stay with us.

I personally feel that the second explanation is the right one. But why are they silent while approaching the date of 21 December 2012 ? 

As said earlier, Earth is receiving since a couple of years Love Energy vibes and it is going crescendo until next 21 December. Another cycle will start but the showering will probably continue. As stated above, the New Earth may be already a reality and some people have probably already joined the new Earth. But many sages stay still with us to be human channels to broadcast energies coming to the earth. Until the last moments they will probably be there to help the largest amount of human beings to make the Shift of Consciousness. Since we are in the final straight, it is no more the time of words. It is the time of meditation, of silence and prayer.

4- We can do it

It is not late to save our Mother Earth and all human beings living on her. It is yet possible to create a new paradise on Earth, to build a new world of Love and Oneness with Mother Earth, with Nature and with the Universe. Why is it yet possible ? The most difficult challenge is not to overcome the harm we made to our Mother Earth. Everything can be reversed. We can clean oceans, repopulate wild life, replant forests, find clean and virtually infinite sources of energy, we can wipe poverty and diseases from earth, etc. But the big challenge is man itself. Man today is violent against Live. Man is destroying himself. Man has made madness, hate and greed his true religion. But the energy of Love is tremendous, far more powerful than the energy of hate or greed. If we attain a "critical mass" of human being who are pure Love; who feel deep in their heart that they are one with all living beings on this earth, we can reverse all the hate in the world into Love and all the greed into altruism. What is this "critical mass" ? 10% ? 30% ? or 50% of world population ? In this matter the quantity does not matter. If a few persons with huge amount of love are there, they can balance all other human beings in earth. 

So what are we supposed to do to help establishing the New Earth, the New Era of Love and Harmony ? Here are some guidelines :

• Be Love. Unconditional Love. Showering our Love on every thing, every living being in this earth and in the universe. 
• Never be discouraged. Love will ultimately win. We will save almost all human beings on Earth. I know we can't force anyone to be saved if he want to die or to stay in his mind jail. The freewill is an Universal Law that we should respect. But we can still love unconditionally until the last breath ...
• Join our meditations, our prayers to those beautiful beings already helping us and channeling love energy to Earth. There is no little or great soul, we are all equal expressions of God, we have all a tremendous power, an unthinkable power. Since it is unthinkable and we are in the mind, we miss this power. But we should persevere and participate with the amount of awareness we have. By doing so, we will multiply the number of relays channeling Love energy in our World. The New Earth will become closer and closer. And our awareness bigger and bigger.
• Never let the fear enter our heart. We are the strong souls chosen by God, The Universe to be in earth in this critical era of Earth history. You should not fear anything. We will win and end up in the New Earth with all our beloved. If Mother Earth expresses herself in earthquakes, floods or volcanoes, let her do its duty. We will still love her. We will still be with her until the last breath ...

A human mind or an activist, may not be satisfied with the recommendations above and will ask : "What should we really do ? we can't sit without doing anything to stop the dying of Earth ..."

Again you are not supposed to do anything. We have just to be in two important states :

• TO BE. This is Awareness. Your presence is required. Not in the mind, but in the heart.  Feel your body, your mind, your emotions, than feel other human beings, other living beings. Feel our mother Earth. To be is to feel, to be aware of life in yourself and then in anything else. So, first you have to be. Then you have ...
• TO BE LOVE. This is Oneness. Love vibrations is the most powerful and subtle energy in the Universe. It sustains and pervade all the Cosmos. To be Love is just to be in harmony with the Universe. It is such a tremendous power. Such a beautiful feeling. Be love doesn't mean to work in charities, to help others, to do this or that. All these things can be a byproduct of Love, but it is not Love. Love has nothing to do with "doing". Love is being. To be Love is to feel deep in your heart that the others are really you in other bodies. Love is the feeling that this tree, that animal or the Earth in its entirety is simply other expressions of Yourself. There is no real border between you and anything in the Universe. This true feeling of oneness is to be Love. So try to be Love by simply see with your heart the divine beauty in anyone, in anything ! Unconditionally. By trying to feel this, the feeling of oneness with the Universe will grow and the Love will grow.