When Light is Dark

A Great and Wonderful Yogi Living Master : Sadhguru

The idea of this article comes from a video of Sadhguru entiteled "Enlightenment or Endarkenment? Which is Right?"  This video reminded me of an Osho discourse  about Darkness and Light. It also reminded me a documentary about the Sun and suggested to me an analogy between the Photon journey from the core of the Sun and a Human Being journey in this Life. Enjoy the reading and the videos !

1- Invisible Light

In this video, the amazing Yogi and Living Master, Sadhguru explains that Enlightenment or any other word is just a signpost used to indicate which cannot be described by any word from this world. Sadhguru talks about light which remains invisible unless it is reflected by something. In fact photons, the little particles of energy, transporting what we call light, are simply invisible ... unless they hit an object. This object can be either your eye if you’re looking at the source of the photon; or it can be any material object reflecting the photons. The photon materialize itself for the eye when it hits an object, otherwise it is invisible.

The astronauts in the outer space far from the atmosphere are in complete darkness even when the sun is shining. The absence of the air and little particles of dust in suspension in it, they can't see sun's rays. So in the outer space there is no light. It's absolute darkness, despite trillions of photons and other energetic particles are traveling from every where ! It's an amazing thing that light and darkness are so entangled ! In the absence of any object, light is not distinguished from Darkness, it melts with it.

In a beautiful discourse, Osho talked about Darkness as  "The Substance Existence is Made Of". Not only Light is dark but "Darkness is a Deeper Phenomenon than Light" said Osho. Light goes on and off, but Darkness is always there. Light has some source generating it, but Darkness is Eternal. Sadhguru continued in the same manner: Light has the biggest speed known in this world, but still has a limited speed and needs time to travel from point A to point B. But Darkness is every where.

Composition of the Universe upon NASA WMAP probe

In fact Darkness is the symbol of the unknown for humanity. In Science we call “Black hole” this phenomenon we try to understand and still blows up our physics equations. In Cosmology, Scientists are talking about Dark Matter and Dark Energy. In this NASA website, the latest measurements of WMAP probe demonstrate that only 4.6% of the stuff making the Universe is made of Atoms. 24% is Dark Matter, which is an unknown form of matter. Without considering it; all the Structures in the Universe like Galaxies will collapse. 71.4% is Dark Energy, which is an unknown form of energy. This energy is a kind of anti-gravity that goes on expanding the whole Universe.

Light is the source of all kind of Life we know on Earth. Without solar rays, it’s impossible for Life to be born and grow up on Earth. And if the Sun disappears, all forms of Life on Earth will die. But Darkness seems to be the womb of the Light, the matrix where Life can take place. Without Darkness, nothing can ever take place …

2- The Photon's Journey and The Seeker's Path

In this Documentary entitled "Journey From The Center of the Sun", the journey of photons born in the core of the Sun is described. Generated from nuclear reactions, photons are produced as high energetic Gamma Rays. They leave Sun’s Core at light speed but are immediately faced with very dense and chaotic upper layers of the Sun. The photons bounce here and there, are absorbed by this atom and then ejected to be caught by the other atom and so on. At each absorption/ejection a part of its energy is absorbed until it attains the Sun surface as a low level energy photon we called Visible Light. This journey between the generation at Sun’s Core and Liberation at the surface of the Sun could take thousands of years and even a billion years ! After that the photon can head towards a planet of solar system  or travel across the entire universe and melt with it!

When I saw this documentary for the first time, tears came to my eyes and I started crying like a child. I didn’t realize then why this journey of photons touched so deep my heart. Now I can see the parallel I can make with human Consciousness journey in this Life.

The real self of a human being is his Consciousness, his Awareness. We can’t define it or grasp it but we can make an analogy with the photon, the Particle of Light. 

• Like the photon, our Consciousness travels and hits various kind of Life forms, from the more dense, like the rocks to the more subtle like human being body and mind. 
• Like the photon, it can be a very long journey from the dense core of the Sun before the liberation at the surface of our home star. The same with our Consciousness, it evolves from the extra dense to the ultra subtle before it realizes its Liberation, its Enlightenment. 
• Like the photon, our journey seems to be an endless and chaotic journey, but in fact it is pulled with an invisible force towards the surface, towards the Liberation. 
• Like the photon which is absorbed by atoms before its ejection, our consciousness is absorbed by various kind of Life until the last and most evolved form of Life, the human being. During this temporary merging with Life forms, we can lose ourselves and be identified with the temporary form, but we should know that our Consciousness is eternal, unbound and aiming to its ultimate merging with the entire Universe.

Of course this analogy with Light or Photon is just a metaphor. Let's not seek any truth in it. Truth is to be searched deep inside each one of us. Without any preconceived idea. The entire Universe is reflected within us. Just let's close our eyes, relax our body and mind. Then wait.  Let's our Consciousness accommodate with Emptiness. Let's our inner eyes accommodate with Darkness, the Source of all what is.

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
Image created by free software Gimp using Noise Filter

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.

Day D : Happy New Love Era !

December 21st, 2012, 11:11 am in the clock of the site http://time.is

Here we are; at the much hyped, revered, commercialised, anticipated, and very often feared, the date of December 21st, 2012. This morning on the Internet, I caught, in the picture above, the exact moment of transition to the New Era at 11:11 am.

Any anniversary is almost an arbitrary moment we choose to celebrate some great event or simply a pleasant moment. The Long Count in the Mayan calendar ends exactly today at 11:11am. Many of us see in this date a symbolic date of the new Age of Humanity. An age of Love, Harmony and Awakening.

So, in this great symbolic day, I'd like to tell you "Happy New Era !" 

 

A cycle of 26000 years ends, another begin... Happy New Era !

Is has been proved that a world dominated by the mind, the ego leads us to all kind of calamities. So let's begin this new era by being more heart oriented, more loving, less calculating, more sharing, less hoarding, more feeling, less thinking, more gratitude, less complaint, more happiness, less sorrow, more play, less seriousness, more here and now, less there and tomorrow, more be, less become, more whole, less many...

Despite outwardly the World didn't change, but if  you trust your heart, you will know that the changes are tremendous. The light has definitely won and the age of darkness is behind us forever... When you celebrate your birthday it doesn't mean that you have gained a whole year during the day of celebration. The aging process lasted for one year and your celebrate at the climax. The same here, our collective and individual awakening has begun many years ago. Today is a day of celebration. But the process is not finished. It is still going on. For me, today it is the greatest day in my lifetime so far. If a greater day is to come, there will be no "me" to celebrate it, but the Universe will ...

The Sylph

Paradise Bird by Aomori

In these blessed and beautiful days, this fairy tale is my gift for you, dear reader. Many cultures are celebrating holidays this late November, early December. Muslims have just celebrated the beginning of Hijri Calendar culminating with the Day of Ashura, November 24th, 2012. Jews are starting the celebration of Hanukkah, the festival of Light, yesterday December 8th, 2012. The same day, the Buddhists are celebrating the Boddhi Day, the Day of Enlightenment. And of course Christmas is coming soon... But before December 25th and St. Sylvester's Day, there is the end of the great cycle of Mayan calendar, some December 21st ... And I would love that you read this tale before this mythical date. So, enjoy reading my modest holiday gift for you !

Foreword

My name is Sami. In my time-line, today is December 9th, 2014 and I'm celebrating my 37th birthday. I'm now living in the new Earth, far more beautiful than any paradise a human being had ever dreamed about before... But I'm not going to talk about this new Earth, since you will soon experience and live it. I have just made a leap, back in the time, of two years to post this story in this blog, this December 9th, 2012, in your time-line. This narrative may looks like a fairy tale, but it is really what happened to me; this unforgettable day of December 21th, 2012. You may believe it or not, it is not so important. But I have a great message for you, dear fellow human : what you will experience these coming weeks, late of December 2012, is too wonderful to be conceptualized by your current mind. Yet the vibrations of your heart will soon overwhelm your mind and "push" it into the next level of consciousness. In this vibration level, you will see, experience, the True Life, the Beauty and Majesty of this World.

Fabulous Awakening

I awoke this morning with a strange feeling of peace and stillness. Seldom I sleep without any dream. But this night, it was a dreamless, peaceful, deep relaxing night. Usually I don't use any alarm clock, I wake up spontaneously about one hour before sunrise. That to say about 6:00 am in December. I don't open my eyes immediately, but I enjoy the feeling of the transition between the sleep and the awaken states. I feel in my heart a deep gratitude for this new day, given to me by God, to continue my journey in this planet. I also listen to the sounds surrounding me. The peaceful breathing of my wife beside me, the sound of the tramway passing next to my building, the rustling of my balcony's plants in the morning breeze, etc. I experience this meditation, this listening, while lying in my bed, eyes closed and without any thought. Not a single ripple disturbs the calm lake of my consciousness. But this morning, an unaccustomed deep silence enveloped the room where I woke up. No single sound was heard. Then the first thought of the day came to my mind : "We are The December 21st, 2012 !". In my ordinary state, this thought would raise a lot of others thoughts, emotions and perhaps fear or anxiety. But not this morning. I was too peaceful, too still to be seduced by this thought. I looked aloof at this idea brushing my mind and trying to get my attention, but I remained relaxed, gently centered on my being. So the thought faded on its own and I continued feeling my body, hearing the unusual deep silence surrounding me. I also felt an aliveness and weightlessness in all my body. I enjoyed this feeling for several minutes before, finally, I decided to slowly open my eyes. I knew later that my eyes are opening on the birth of the new World ...

What I saw the moment I opened my eyes this morning is, till now, two years later, very vivid in my memory as if it happened just yesterday. The room was enveloped in the darkness, not a single beam of light filtered from the large window. This darkness with the deep silence enhance more the feeling of stillness and peace. But despite the total darkness, I could see distinctly all the furniture in the room as if I were in the daylight ! It is difficult for me to explain this paradox : a total darkness with a day-like sight ! I could see everything in the minute detail. The objects seems to have their own inner source of light ... their colors were glowing with a beautiful and rich soft light, just illuminating themselves. For example, the reddish-brown color of the commode had now a multitude of beautiful shading and glowing colors, I hadn't seen before. I slowly looked to my wife sleeping like a child beside me. Not only I could see every detail in her lovely face, but her head were surrounded by an aura sparkling with beautiful colors shading from orange to yellow. I knew that every living being is surrounded by an aura, but I never have been capable of seeing it. I had seen photos or pictures of auras but experiencing a real aura is simply marvelous. All the head of my wife was surrounded by this aura, so it was not a circle but a spherical haze of light twinkling with throngs of multicolored beams of light sparkling up to 20 cm above the head. Then, I noticed that my own body was also surrounded by an "auric field", a kind of glowing light of a few centimeters over my skin. I couldn't see with my eyes the larger aura around my head but I felt that I had a beautiful one like my wife. All these surprises didn't affect my calm and stillness. I continued to experience the feeling of silence and ... love. Yes, the air seemed to be charged with love. I can't explain that, but a deep feeling of oneness with everything was pervading all my being. I felt as if there is no real boundary between my body and the rest of the world. It was a continuous of life vibrations, soft, beautiful and so silent ...

Condensation of Energy

Then I felt a living presence in the room; other than my wife. I raise my eyes, and I saw, suspended in the air, a beautiful little "light" being. The creature of light, almost transparent, was about 130 cm tall. It hovered there, in front of me, about 40 cm above the ground. The intelligence was reflected in its smiling face and the goodness was emanating from its entire light being. Its head was surrounded by a huge and beautiful golden aura. Its hair, which was long and silky, golden-blond in color, fell to its shoulders and framed a face that was perfectly oval in shape. Under its blue-mauve eyes and long curled lashes, its nose was well-proportioned and slightly flat at the bottom, which accentuated a perfect mouth.(1) It was not dressed by any kind of garment, but the skin was transparent. Under the skin there were no organs but a kind of little light bubbles circulating through the body. I don't why at this moment the word "Prana" entered my mind. Could these small bubbles materialize the "Life Fluid", called "Prana" by some ancient cultures ? The arms and legs were analogue to human being ones. The light creature had no genital organs and no body hair. It floated in the air, but had no wings. The gravity seemed to have no effect on it. The divine being, with a large smile, transmitted to me telepathically this phrase : "Hi Sami, how are you feeling ?". Surprisingly, I was not shocked by this vision. The feeling of Love pervading my whole being was stronger than any other emotion. I answered by the same way, mentally, "Thank you. I am fine. Who are you beautiful being ?" The smile on the face of this light creature become larger and the answer came in my mind : "I am what your legends call a Sylph, created from pure air". After a little silence, The Sylph continued. "I see that you are a little puzzled, I will give you more precisions, not by words, but I will "send" it to you and you will understand ..." Instantly, I saw clearly in my Mind the scientific explanation of the origin of The Sylph and all those marvelous creatures populating our legends and fairy tales. I will try to put this knowledge into words; as simple as I can.

The Earth like other similar planets in the Galaxy, periodically, at the beginning of some cosmic cycles, receives a huge amount of Love Energy from the Galaxy, especially from what we call "Black Hole", in the kernel of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. This tremendous Energy is aimed to make some evolution leap in the DNA of the inhabitants of the target planet. This colossal Energy filling the space of the Earth "condensed" at some points with many beautiful and special kind of Life. Like the air when it is charged with steam, in the coolness of the morning, some dewdrops appear on the leaves or on the blades of grass. The same thing happens with Love Energy, it creates some "coolness" producing the creation of Sylphs, Mermaids, Gnomes and other light creatures. But what distinguishes these living beings from the permanent inhabitants of the planets is their inner constitution. This condensation of Love Energy creates a special state of matter, what physicists call Bose-Einstein Condensate, or BEC. This special state of matter is "pure" in the meaning that it has a simple quantum, yet macroscopic, state of energy. In other words, our bodies of human being have very complex quantum states of Love Energy, in the other hand, the fairy tale creatures are made of simple states of the same energy. Also, like dewdrops, these beautiful beings are short living. Like dewdrops gracefully disappear with the ascent of the sun in the sky, these beautiful creatures are gone when Love Energy takes another configuration.

Dance of Energy

The Sylph told me telepathically "Sami, will you please meet me down stairs, in the street" and it disappeared passing through the wall of my room ! I dressed quickly and take a look to my wife. She was peaceful in a deep asleep. There was no sign of any coming awakening. I printed a light kiss on her lips, got out of the room then I headed towards the flat's door. A few seconds later, I was in the street where The Sylph was waiting for me. The darkness was still total, there wasn't ever the slightest beam of sun's rays from the east, where the sun was in theory about to rise in less than one hour. This time, instead of telepathy, The Sylph talked to me in Moroccan Arabic, my mother tongue : "How are you feeling now, Sami ?". I was about to answer its question when my eyes caught the environment in the street around me ... and I stayed open-mouthed ! The Sylph burst into laughter. It laughed so heartily that I recover a little from my astonishment and painted an shameful smile on my face. Usually at this time of the day, there are cars in the street and some people going to their jobs or coming from the Mosque after doing the first prayer of the day. Instead of that, the street was full of magical creatures, standing, walking or floating in the air ! Some looked like The Sylph I already met. Others, were real mermaids; but are swimming in the air ! Their pretty body, half-woman half-fish was so light that it could float in the air and they were elegantly swimming across the street. In the corner of the street, near the tramway station, a group of Gnomes were laughing and talking to each other in a language unfamiliar to me, but very harmonious; like a beautiful music. There were also human beings like me, but they were strangers for me. I felt that they were coming from distant planets in the galaxy. Some are very big sized, almost three meters tall and others are "normal sized". But all those beings were beautifully framed with a marvelous golden aura. Theirs faces were glowing with beauty and nobility. When a group of those giants passed by me and The Sylph, they addressed to us a large smile. Not knowing how to greet them and not daring touching their divine body, I just closed my eyes and joined my hands in a deep namaste, charged with all my love and blessing. When I opened my eyes, one of them touched slightly my shoulder with his hand. I felt immediately a beautiful fluid traversing my whole being and a feeling of well-being followed.(2) I thanked him telepathically and he continued his walk with his friends talking in their melodious tongue. I also "knew" that this group of giants were coming from a planet called Thiaooba, in a system located in the beautiful constellation of Pleiades.

The magnetic fluid induced in me by the giant E.T., helped me to gather courage and relaunch an already stopped mind. I eventually answered the question of The Sylph. "Yes, I am fine, thank you. But why are those visitors from other planets here ? Where are my fellow citizen gone ? and why the sun is not yet arising ?" The smile of The Sylph became larger, then it answered in Arabic : "Don't worry, you will understand every thing soon. I will transmit all the answers the same way I did before, directly and instantly in your mind. But before that, I'd like to introduce to you a being you met one night ..." At this moment, a blue-mauve horse with a large tail of peacock appeared in front of me. I immediately recognized the horse I saw one night in a vivid dream. I never forget this beautiful animal. It was so real for me even in a dream. I could communicate telepathically with him and, in the dream, I rode his back for a long time in a beautiful mountainous landscape. Sometimes we were on the ground and sometimes we flew in the air without any wings. The gravity simply disappeared for us in this wonderful dream. When I saw the peacock-horse near The Sylph, tears come to my eyes and I started hugging and kissing the horse as if I had met a beloved after a long absence. I could hardly believe that I was really with this lovely horse. I caressed his hair, looked deep into his eyes ... The horse shared his joy with me by jumping and neighing with his melodious voice.

Birth of New Earth

The Sylph transmitted me the answers of my questions instantly and we departed for a journey around the World. I rode my horse in the air and The Sylph "flying" beside me. The Sylph explained me in its instant "transmission" that the Earth has entered temporarily in an upper dimension. In this dimension, there is no sun. In fact, Earth and all inhabitants disappeared from the solar system for three stellar days. I understood why many channels and mediums predicted 3 days of darkness... During this period of ascension of the earth to the upper dimension, most of people and animals will be unconscious, in a state sleep-alike, but more peaceful and dreamless. They will join their "higher selves" or "the heaven" for a little rest, while their bodies will receive a kind of "surgery" of their DNA. The Universe is preparing The New Humanity for The New Earth. In the Evolutionary Biology, scientists had coined the word "saltation" to designate a leap in the evolution of a species from one generation to another one. A new saltation in the human being DNA was in progress during those three days following the December 21th, 2012. After that, people will wake up without noticing any change in their clocks and calendars. But the change in DNA will be noted by the biologists sequencing the human genome. This remind me the suspension of a virtual machine in a modern computer. All the applications running on a virtual machine are suspended for a more or less long time; then resumed. For those applications, the time has stopped, but not for the "host system", where the virtual machine is running. The environment can be radically changed, but only noticed afterwards, when the virtual machine is resumed.

During this period of three days not all people were unconscious. Some human beings, who were enough spiritually advanced, could withstand the huge amounts of Love Energy surging on Earth. Those were fully conscious during these three days. They were needed by the Universe to channel the Love Energy to their fellow in various regions and cultures of the World. Those few chosen are not great or known personalities in the World. Some of them are indeed famous, some great teachers are among them. But most of them are very humble and utterly anonymous in the world. Their Love is huge but their personalities/egos are almost nil. Their Soul is infinite but their knowledge/power is almost non-existent. Dear reader, you may think that those few chosen people were intended to do hard work and suffer to channel Love Energy to the new Earth and its inhabitants ! No at all ! They were present only to celebrate the birth of The New Earth. They were not supposed to do anything. Their only presence was sufficient. Not doing, not thinking. Just being. And celebrating. To share this celebration many human beings from other planets were invited by the Universe to visit Earth at this exact period to share their love, wisdom, joy and celebration with earthlings. During those memorable three days, there was not a single thought, not a single ripple in the surface of the Earth global consciousness. This stillness reached the depths of the Galaxy.

During our journey across the Earth, The Sylph, the Peacock-Horse and I we saw oceans and continents being scanned by a powerful laser beam. Sometimes the earth's crust cracked, a mountain shook, or a huge typhoon arose in the ocean and a few seconds later the calm got back. In the sky I noticed two bright "red suns" in the dark and starless sky. The Sylph explained me that these were two spacecrafts coming from a very advanced civilization in the galaxy. Those spacecrafts were producing the laser beams I saw earlier. One of the spaceships was fixing the damage doing by man to the Environment, cleaning the oceans, rivers and the air, repopulating the forests, seas and continents with flora and fauna, etc. The second spaceship were destroying and wiping the weapons such as atomic bombs, missiles and nuclear plants which are difficult to clean out in the current development of human technology. I understood then the meaning of the prophecy of two suns in the sky ...

During our journey across the world, The Sylph introduces me to many wonderful beings. Some of them were like me, earthlings, others were from various planets and some others were like it, pure creatures of Light. We all enjoy the three celebration days. We sang and danced peacefully. Once the three days were over, all the visitors from other planets went back to their homes and the light beings disappeared like dewdrops in the sun. When the moment of separation with my friend The Sylph arrived, I couldn't hold back my tears. I asked it if I could see it later. It told me that it will loss its light body in few hours. But unlike we, human beings, the light beings don't cross the river of oblivion before incarnating in another body. So it will remember me and I could meet it later, either as a another light being or as an animal. And if it is an animal it would be a horse or a dolphin. Since this day, whenever I come across a horse or a dolphin, I look deep in his eyes searching the soul of my friend The Sylph.

Birth of the New Humanity

December 24th for me, December 21th in the earth calendars, I was a little sad but I forgot my sadness when my family, my friends and all the human beings woke up. Their eyes are now peaceful, their heart pervaded by a silence and stillness never experienced before. They saw the new world with amazing and childish eyes. The joy and happiness were everywhere. During the few weeks following the December 21th, 2012, all the old monetary, financial, economical and political systems made by the old mind collapsed like a house of cards. Lot of people lost their jobs, the money lost its value ... but who cared ? The humans were too still, too self contented to be disturbed by such events. Instead of money, people try now to exchange their goods and services. In the beginning it was a real chaos; but everybody laughed at this chaos instead of being angry. We made jokes about the chaos and every one love hearing the last one. We really laughed heartily. Gradually things were getting better. New ideas were found to share commodities at the scale of the planet, without monetary system, without greed, without pollution and without waste.

After December 21th, 2012 and the awakening of humanity, military and political leaders were at lost. Most of them were becoming enlightened and understood the stupidity of their former job. Others, less spiritually advanced, were now a minority. Moreover without their weapons and without fanatic and mad people pushing them, they calmed down and try living without hurting other human beings. The job of soldier, politician and sensational journalist disappeared forever. Many other jobs remained but changed radically. For example, schools and teachers, businesses and their bosses had nothing to do with their previous activities.

Let me point out that awakening which followed the three days of December 21th, 2012 was not uniform. Globally the human consciousness increases. Human DNA changed to allow human beings access higher vibrations levels. But no one were forced to walk in his spiritual path faster than its own pace. Since the number of persons who were spiritually advanced were larger than the less spiritually advanced, the entire Earth toggled in the "Light Side of the Force" to borrow an image from Star Wars movie.

Christmas Eve celebrated on December 24th 2012, was the most wonderful and happy holiday ever celebrated so far on the Earth. Our friends from the distant planet, made their two spacecrafts shining two white laser beams, simulating two "white stars" in the sky near Pleiades constellation; each brighter than Venus. All the people in the world saw this phenomenon and recalled them the "Star of Bethlehem". But now, our celebration is double : the birth of the New Earth and the New Humanity. The two "stars" lasted in the sky during one month and disappeared. They were guiding humanity to the Cosmos. They invited us to join the galactic humanity in their celebration of Life. Now the humanity is spiritually ripe to explore the Galaxy and spread Love in the Universe. Certainly the human technology is still rudimentary, but now with its spiritual awakening, it is easier to overcome the old limitations of human technologies. The gravitational well of Earth will be soon overstepped using the anti-gravity vortex near Earth Poles. It will be easier to transport tons of equipments in orbit around the earth using little energy. Anti-matter engines combined with the fallout of the new Theory Of Everything will offer to humanity superluminal travels. Visiting a stellar system located one thousand parsecs from our solar system will be a little trip in the outskirt of our sun.

Epilogue

My story ends here. It may appear unbelievable or too good to be true, but it is the truth. What you will experience in coming weeks is far more beautiful than any narrative, any good prophecy. All prophecies of doomsday occurring a December 21st, 2012 are simply a misunderstanding. The three days of darkness are really days of light. The two suns in the sky, planet X or Nibiru are misinterpretation of friendly spacecrafts. All the destructions felt by some channels are meant to construct a better world, more friendly towards Nature.

I don't know, dear reader, if you will be conscious or not during coming 21st, 22nd and 23rd of December 2012. But in each case, be peaceful and grateful to God for his blessing and Love. The New Earth and New Humanity are in progress and have reached the Point of No Return. Peace and Love will win forever. Wars and suffering will disappear forever.

From your golden future,
Sami,
Casablanca, December 9th, 2014

Notes

(1) The description of The Sylph in the paragraph "Fabulous Awakening" is inspired and sometimes literally borrowed from the description of Thao in the beautiful book "Thiaooba Prophecy" by Michel Desmarquet.
(2) Ibid. See Latoli gift.

The Wisdom of the Triangle

The Wisdom of the Triangle leads to the Circle

1- Introduction

Usually the symbol of Wisdom and Perfection is not the Triangle but the Circle, since the latter is a perfect geometrical shape. In the other hand, Life is imperfect, but its imperfection is perfect, as Osho used to say ! So the perfect Circle does not exist in Life and a simpler shape such as the Triangle could be a mean to approach the Circle by an iterative process. Hence the title of this article.  

Firstly, I will start by recalling briefly a historical mathematical problem, "Squaring the Circle". Then, I will use the analogy of the transcendental number PI (π) to introduce the transcendence of all dualities in life : right/wrong,  beautiful/ugly, happy/sad, etc. This transcendence is the ultimate Wisdom.

Since my goal is not to write a philosophical article but to share spiritual experience, I'll show how we could progress in our spiritual life by transcending the dualities we experience in everyday life. The "Wisdom of the Triangle" can therefore be a powerful tool to attain the state of meditation or no-mind in day to day activities.

2- The Problem of Squaring the Circle

The expression "Squaring the Circle" means trying to do an impossible action. The source of this idiom comes from ancient geometers who challenge anyone to "Construct a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge". Since the area of a square is SxS  (S=side of the square) and the area of a circle is PIxRxR (R=radius of circle); solving the above problem means that PI is a rational number, that is a fraction of two integers (SxS/RxR). But PI is not rational. It is not even an algebraic number. It is transcendental. To put it in simple words, an algebraic number can be precisely defined using algebraic (simple) equations. But a transcendental number is a "wild" number which can't be confined in any simple equation. We can't neither calculate its value precisely even using the most powerful computers. We can only calculate approximates and finite values of it. The ancient mathematicians failed to prove the transcendence of PI and the "Squaring Circle" remains an unsolved problem until the 19th century when ultimately it had been proved that PI is transcendental. So it is useless to try to solve the problem of "Squaring the Circle". There is no solution for it.

The figure below shows a simple method to calculate an approximate value of PI by paving the area of the circle using many little triangles. We  can then calculate the sum of the areas of the triangles, divide the result by the square of the radius of the circle and then obtain an approximate value of PI. The greater is the number of triangles, the better is the approximation of PI and the nearer we approach the perfect circle.

From Triangle to Circle.
The sum of areas of the little triangles in step 3 is almost equal to the area of the circle.
We can refine the approximation of the circle by increasing the number of triangles.

3- From Transcendental Numbers to Spiritual Transcendence

Why the circle is the symbol of perfection, of wisdom ?  Here are some reasons :

• The Circle has no edge. Its shape is smooth without any angle. It can't "hurt". So the Sage.
• The Circle has no preferred direction. It is neutral; at equal distance from anything. So the Sage.
• The Circle has an unmoving center. The periphery can rotate, can be disturbed, but the center remains untouched. The Sage is also centered in his being. He is not touched by all what happens in the world. He remains a witness. A storm can raise huge waves on the surface of the ocean. But deep in the ocean, the stillness is not disturbed.
• During centuries mathematicians didn't accept the transcendence of PI trying to confine it in a simple equation. Finally the transcendence of PI is established and the "perfection" chased is definitely abandoned. So is Life. So is Wisdom. Life is not perfect since it is not dead. It is a perpetual evolution. It is not simply defined and we are done with it. No, Life is transcendental, has no beginning, no end. It is a perpetual celebration, a continuous creation, an infinite improvement.

4- What is the "Wisdom of the Triangle" ?

The world, as it is perceived by an ordinary human being, is full of dualities or contradictions. The mind can't perceive a thing if there is no contrary of it. Example of dualities : I/you, beauty/ugliness, happiness/unhappiness, wealth/poverty, positive/negative, female/male, etc. In the other hand, an enlightened person had transcended all these dualities.

But an enlightened man is almost a "perfect" circle. What about a simple spiritual seeker like me and you ? Here comes the "Wisdom of the Triangle". It is difficult to transcend all the dualities together. But we can proceed step by step. We can consider for example one duality : happiness/unhappiness. What does it mean to transcend this duality ? it means to go beyond ? what is beyond ? It is Peace ! So we can symbolize this by the following triangle :

To be in Peace is to go beyond Happiness and Unhappiness.
Source : Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now".

So a duality consist of two poles/ends of a segment. To transcend this duality is not to choose any pole, but to go beyond. Going beyond is to be in the state where the two ends merge in the third apex of the triangle. This is the what I mean by the "Wisdom of the Triangle". But the idea of triangle as symbol of transcendence is not mine. It is originated from Osho discourses.

Beware, to be effective, the transcendence should not be in the mind, but it must be existential. You should feel and live this transcendence. Otherwise there is no transformation, no progress in the spiritual path. Without existential experience of transcendence, we are just stuffing our mind and enhancing our ego. 

The beauty of the "Wisdom of the Triangle" is that by repeating the process of existential transcendence for each duality, the circle of our consciousness will be more and more perfect; and one day, suddenly, we are enlightened, fully aware ...

5- Practical use of the "Wisdom of the Triangle"

In this paragraph we will  enumerate some dualities and how we can go beyond them using the "Wisdom of the Triangle". 

5.1- Beyond Happiness/Unhappiness : Peace

Life can't be always "Un Long Fleuve Tranquille" (Long Quiet River). It always challenges us. Every challenge is intended to teach us something to let us grow spiritually. So we should try to find out what is the lesson behind each unhappy situation. For example, an unhappy situation can make us angry. So the lesson is probably to let us experience anger with awareness. We are are not supposed to suppress the anger or to express it while being unaware, but to be fully aware of the anger. If we succeed, it is beautiful; we will grow spiritually. If we fail, it is beautiful too. The Life will challenge us again in a similar situation until we learn the lesson. So in each situation we have transcended the unhappiness. In the case of success we grow. In the case of failure there is no guilt, no sadness : This is Peace.

Life can challenge us with happiness too. What is the challenge in this case ? we shouldn't cling to the the situation of happiness. We can enjoy it but not cling to it. Since we know that every situation should pass. Happy or unhappy, no situation is eternal. So we enjoy the moment present and if the happiness ends, we let it go without clinging, without suffering, with total acceptance : This is Peace.

So Peace is really beyond happiness and unhappiness. By accepting the unhappiness and not clinging to happiness we attain the eternal Peace. Here and Now. Situations of happiness or unhappiness can come and go. They are like ripples on the periphery of our circle and we are rooted and centered in our central being, in peace ...

5.2- Beyond I/You : Oneness

The mind divides and the first division is between I and the Other. Next divisions are : my family and the neighbours, my city/other cities, my country/the world, my religion/other religions, human being/nature, etc. So the root of all divisions, wars, environmental problems, are originated from the first division I/You. In fact the other is not really separated from me. If we go deep inside ourselves the borders disappear. We are the same Life expressing itself in different forms. We are all divine beings at various stages of consciousness. We, human beings, and other forms of life on Earth are not really separated. We are all divine beings at various stages of our evolution. 

So it is really ridiculous to be identified for example with a country, with a religion and consider oneself different from the other. Our birth nationality or birth religion is just an "accident" or perhaps a "choice" to learn something for our spiritual growth. So it should not be a serious matter. I can claim my nationality or my country if I want to enrich the other not to be separate from him. Really the difference of colors, religions and nationalities is a beautiful thing like the richness of flowers of many colors and shapes. Diversity of human beings make this world more beautiful, more exciting, more rich. But to transform this opportunity of complementarity into separation and even conflicts is totally stupid. 

In conclusion, to go beyond I and You is to feel and live the oneness with other human beings and with Nature. This transcendence is a must these days since the stupid mind of human beings is leading us towards destruction of our Planet. We must transcend this duality I/You and experience the Oneness if we want to continue our existence on this Earth. Otherwise we will die with an already dying planet ...

5.3- Beyond I/Myself : Wholeness

Almost all human being on Earth are mad. Since almost of them are identified with their mind. But the mind is not whole. The mind is fragmentary. So the identification with mind leads to schizophrenia. The I, the subject, is different from myself, the object. So we start judging ourselves , feeling sorry for ourselves, being proud of ourselves, not loving ourselves or hating ourselves, etc. When we transcend this duality, we are no more split, we are whole. 

When I am whole, I accept myself as I am. When the identification with mind occur, we start apply our knowledge, religion, society rules, etc to judge ourselves. But all our knowledge is fragmentary, contaminated by society illness, historical madness, etc. It is not the role of my mind to judge myself or to let me feel guilty. Its role is to be my servant not my master. I should hear my body, feel my being and align myself with Nature, not with the madness or illness of the mind. The society uses many mechanisms to make us slaves and serve its own agenda. One of these ugliest methods is to filling our mind with knowledge and moral concepts aiming to make us feel guilty whenever we listen to our heart and go in directions not allowed by the society. So let be whole and not judge ourselves nor feel guilty. Let accept what we are, how we are. We have not created ourselves and the Creator has certainly a purpose behind each of our traits. Life challenges us with outer situations and with inner situations too. We go beyond outer situations with Peace and go beyond inner situations with Wholeness and Acceptance. To be proud of oneself is the other end of feeling guilty : it is an illness too. There is nothing to be proud of or to feel guilty for. Let's go beyond and be whole.

6- Conclusion

In the last paragraph I presented some dualities and showed how to transcend them. But there is so many contradictions, so many dualities.  As said above, all our limited mind perceptions are dualities. And all these dualities should be transcended to be fully aware, fully alive and liberated from the slavery of the mind and the society. So it is up to each of us to meditate on all the dualities in his life and see how to go beyond them. The teaching of some spiritual teachers can be helpful; but the great teacher is our own heart. Let our body relax, our mind stop and listen to our heart, to the inner voice inside our being. If we are puzzled by some duality and don't know how to transcend it, let's not think about it. Thinking is always out of our knowledge, out of our past, so out of ill societies. Instead let's ask our heart, be patient, and listen to our inner voice. One day we will understand spontaneously how to go beyond the duality. After that, we can think about it and share it, using words, with other seekers on the path returning to God, our Ultimate Source.

La Pyramide du Corps

Pyramide ou la Sagesse du Corps

Cet article concerne la sagesse du corps. Il met l'accent sur la sacralité du corps humain puis décrit les besoins fondamentaux du corps, en insistant sur quelques règles de bon sens pour maintenir un corps sain et équilibré. 
Cet article peut sembler scientifique ou parfois philosophique, rappelant l'hédonisme, cette doctrine grecque du plaisir. Mais il n'en est rien. Je ne suis ni philosophe ni médecin ni diététicien. Je n'ai aucune autorité scientifique, philosophique ou spirituelle. Je partage juste quelques expériences et sentiments personnels.  

1- Le Corps humain, ce cadeau de Dieu

Dieu nous a gratifié d'un corps magnifique. Aucune machine créé par l'homme n'a pu jusqu'à aujourd'hui égaler la perfection du corps humain. Malheureusement beaucoup d'humains négligent ou torturent leurs corps, parfois à cause d'une mauvaise compréhension de la religion. Le besoins du corps sont alors vus avec dédain et on croit que l'on s'approche de Dieu en torturant le corps ou en le négligeant au profit de l'âme ! Rien n'est plus faux. En fait les gens qui parlent de l'âme ou de l'esprit en terme d'opposition par rapport au corps ne savent strictement rien de leur corps et encore moins de leur âme. Aucun humain ne voit directement l'esprit ou l'âme. Or le corps humain est justement la porte qui mène vers l'âme ou l'esprit. On peut même dire que le corps matériel n'est que l'esprit "solide" et l'esprit ou l'âme est le corps "subtil". En fait, il n'y a pas de coupure nette entre corps et âme, mais un continuum avec sur un bout le corps matériel et à l'autre bout on trouve l'âme ou l'esprit. C'est pour cela que le corps et l'esprit se mêlent et sont très intimement liés. On parle par exemple de maladies "psychosomatiques" qui sont des maladies qui se manifestent au niveau du corps mais dont l'origine est psychique. En réalité toutes les maladies sont psychosomatiques. Toute maladie du corps affecte directement le psyché et l'inverse est vrai aussi. Mais cette relation n'est pas toujours évidente, mais elle existe certainement. Quand on regarde la physique moderne, elle affirme que la matière n'est qu'une forme "solidifié" de l'énergie. Tout est énergie. La matière solide n'est qu'une forme particulière d'énergie. On peut dire que notre corps est également une énergie qui vibre à diverses fréquences. Il y a des fréquences visibles constituant ce qu'on appelle le corps physiologique et il y a des fréquences plus élevées, plus subtiles constituant des corps liés au corps physique qui sont de plus en plus subtils. L'accoupuncture par exemple traite un corps humain plus subtil que le corps physiologique de la médecine moderne. L'homéopathie agit à un niveau encore plus subtil que l'accoupuncture. Elle agit probablement au niveau atomique ou quantique.

En résumé, le corps physiologique matériel que nous ressentons et que nous voyons n'est que la partie visible d'un continuum de plusieurs corps de plus en plus subtils jusqu'à arriver à un niveau totalement immatériel que nous appelons âme ou esprit. Mais il y a une unité organique et solidaire entre tous ces niveaux. Si le corps physiologique tombe malade ou qu'il est torturé ou malmené, l'âme est affectée et en souffre certainement. Au contraire, un corps sain et équilibré est le temple de Dieu. C'est le biais par lequel un humain peut accéder à des réalités le rapprochant de plus en plus de la Vérité, de Dieu. C'est la "Porte des Etoiles" dont parle la Science Fiction. Les sages de toutes les religions et les soufis en particulier, vous le diront sans ambiguïté : ce cadeau de Dieu qu'est le corps humain est la porte qui vous amène directement à tout l'Univers, à Dieu. Plongez de plus en plus profondément, via la méditation,  dans votre corps et dans votre esprit. Quand la méditation a lieu, votre corps matériel est vécu, totalement ressenti, puis transcendé (dépassé). Ensuite votre esprit est exploré, observé puis transcendé. Arrivé à ce stade la Réalité ou la Vérité est révélée. 

2- La Sagesse du Corps

Dans le paragraphe précédent nous avons montré que notre corps n'est pas notre ennemi mais notre ami, notre moyen sûre pour se voir révéler la Vérité. Comment prendre soin de ce corps ? C'est l'objectif simple et naïf de cet article. Cette sagesse je la résume dans une pyramide que j'ai nommé la Pyramide du Corps :

Cette pyramide résume les besoins fondamentaux du corps. A la base de cette pyramide se trouve les quatre besoins fondamentaux nourriture, boisson, sexe et sommeil. Au sommet se trouve la respiration. 

Source : Pyramide de Maslow

Dans les paragraphes suivants, je vais donner un peu plus de détail sur chacun de ces sommets de la pyramide. Mais avant cela, je voudrais préciser que ma Pyramide du Corps correspond en fait à la base de la Pyramide de Maslow. Autrement dit, je ne m'intéresse ici qu'aux besoins physiologiques de l'Homme.

2.1- Manger

L'homme moderne mange n'importe quoi n'importe comment. Cela s'est traduit par des problèmes de santé physiques et mentales incalculables. Il faudrait revenir à une nourriture saine et surtout à une manière de se nourrir qui est correcte. Voici quelques règles de bon sens concernant la nourriture :

• Attitude de prière et de gratitude : Manger c'est sacré. En effet, nous nourrissons le corps qui va nous mener à Dieu. Qui a-t-il de plus sacré que Dieu ?Ce n'est pas par hasard que toutes les religions du monde préconisent de prier avant et souvent également après manger. Et pendant aussi ! car l'acte de manger est une prière. A chaque bouchée que l'on prend, il faudrait être conscient qu'on est en train de manger/prier. La gratitude est également importante.  Même si ce que l'on mange n'est pas très sophistiqué, il faudrait prendre le temps de le savourer et de remercier Dieu de l'avoir amené jusqu'à son assiette. 
• Manger doucement et paisiblement et bien mastiquer : Quand on mastique une nourriture, elle dégage immédiatement une partie de son énergie subtile qui va directement au cerveau. Donc avant même que le repas ne soit digéré dans le tube digestif et circule dans le sang, le cerveau est servi en premier à partir de la mastication. Donc ne négliger pas cette première étape de la digestion. Elle est importante. Le fait de manger doucement et lentement renforce l'attitude de prière dont j'ai parlé ci-dessus.
• Choisir sa nourriture : l'homme mange pratiquement tout et n'importe quoi. Ce n'est pas bien pour sa santé car il met à mal son système digestif. Il faudrait sélectionner des produits naturels non industrialisés et qui sont cuits correctement. Eviter trop de fritures, de gras et de sucre. Privilégier les légumes et les fruits et diminuer ou de préférence éliminer la viande.  Les raisons éthiques, diététiques et écologiques qui nous invitent à ne plus manger de viande aujourd'hui sont très nombreuses et sont en dehors du cadre de cet article. 

2.2- Boire

On ne boit pas assez et pas assez bien. Toutes les limonades et autres boissons industrialisés sont pure perte d'argent et parfois de santé. A éviter ou à consommer avec beaucoup de modération. Boire l'eau naturelle est un must. De préférence boire l'eau du robinet si elle est bonne ou toute eau non conditionnée si possible (directement à partir de la source). Le souci ici est simplement écologique : éviter la production puis le rejet de trop de bouteilles plastiques. Au lieu d'un jus conditionné en boite ou en bouteille, préférer un fruit. Si on préfère le jus, alors il vaut mieux le préparer soit-même et éviter à la planète un emballage supplémentaire. Inutile de préciser que les boissons alcoolisées sont à éviter car ce sont des drogues qui nuisent à la santé et l'équilibre du corps.

2.3- Se marier

Le sexe est un besoin naturel du corps à partir d'un certain âge. Enérgétiquement parlant, l'homme et la femme sont de sens opposés. L'acte sexuel permet de compléter l'un et l'autre de manière harmonieuse et naturelle. Une relation sexuelle entre deux êtres qui s'aiment est parmi les plus belles expériences dans la vie d'une femme ou d'un homme. C'est également une prière. C'est un acte sacré qui nous rapproche du divin; à condition de l'approcher avec esprit conscient, avec amour, rythme et harmonie.

Cependant, les répressions de nos sociétés, les tabous et autres complexes font que la relation sexuelle est soit absente, soit ne remplit pas sa fonction d'élévation de l'âme. Au mieux c'est une délivrance physiologique accompagnée d'un plaisir momentanée. Au pire c'est un calvaire physique ou psychique enduré par l'un ou les deux partenaires. 

Dans la pratique, faire l'amour comme en méditation, le corps décontracté, l'esprit vide de toute pensée, l'ego oublié et laisser son corps s'exprimer  et suivre le rythme du flot d'énergie comme dans une danse sacrée...

2.4- Dormir

Le sommeil est très important pour la santé physique et mental d'un humain. Un homme privé du sommeil ne peut pas survivre longtemps. On peut mieux résister à la faim qu'au manque du sommeil. Seulement, une fois de plus, nous dormons mal. En effet, nous n'arrêtons pas de courir et de réfléchir toute la journée jusqu'à ce qu'on arrive au lit. Là également, on ne dort pas tout de suite, on continue à repasser le fil de la journée et quand le corps s'épuise et ferme la conscience, on continue à penser dans les rêves. Le rêve permet alors de compléter tout nous n'avons pas réussi à accomplir dans la journée. C'est soit un exutoire ou défoulement soit un ramassis de situations ça et là vécus dans la journée. Le sommeil profond et réparateur où il n'y a pas de rêve est soit court soit inexistant.

Pour améliorer son sommeil et avoir le maximum de sommeil sans rêve, il faudrait se calmer dans la journée surtout dans la période précédent le sommeil. De préférence, pratiquer la méditation avant de dormir pour aider à passer une nuit paisible.

2.5- Respirer

"Manger-Boire-Se marier-Dormir" constituent les quatre sommets de la base de la Pyramide du Corps. Le sommet de la pyramide étant "Respirer". Si on suit les triangles joignant chaque deux sommets adjacents de la base de la pyramide au sommet de la pyramide, nous arrivons à ceci :

• Manger-Boire-Respirer : ceci est une sagesse très ancienne. En effet, par exemple, le Prophète Mohamed préconise qu'un tiers de l'estomac doit être affecté à la nourriture, un tiers à l'eau et un tiers à l'air. Donc il faut laisser un espace pour respirer. La respiration profonde jusqu'au ventre ne peut avoir lieu si l'estomac est plein de nourriture et d'eau.
• Boire-Se marier-Respirer : ici la sagesse concerne le rôle de la respiration aussi bien dans le fait de boire ou durant l'acte sexuel. La respiration est impossible pendant la boisson. A cause d'une histoire de position du larynx humain favorisant la parole sur la nourriture. A contrario, la respiration va de paire avec l'acte sexuel. Celui-ci contrôle la respiration. L'inverse est également vrai. 
• Se marier-Dormir-Respirer : si le lien "Se marier-respirer" a été évoqué ci-dessus, le lien entre la respiration et le sommeil est important. La respiration peut être gêné durant les rêves ou si la position du dormeur n'est pas confortable. Mais pendant le sommeil profond et sans rêve, la respiration est lente, profonde et idéale comme il sera expliqué ci-dessous.

La respiration est importante et nous avons perdu l'habitude de bien respirer. Observez votre comportement : si vous êtes anxieux la respiration est superficielle si vous êtes nerveux la respiration s'accélère et devient également superficielle. 

La meilleure manière de respirer est celle des bébés qui dorment : ils respirent profondément et lentement  avec le ventre qui se lève et s'abaisse au rythme de la respiration. Si on respire de cette manière, alors automatiquement on est relaxé, tous les muscles sont relâchés. Si en plus on suit, avec sa conscience, le mouvement de l'air durant cette respiration, alors on est en pleine méditation : les pensées s'arrêtent ! Donc on peut contrôler son corps et son esprit rien qu'on modulant sa respiration. 

Par exemple il est impossible de se mettre en colère quand on respire profondément. Faites des essais et vous allez voir.

En résumé, la respiration est un acte fondamental et important pour la santé du corps. C'est pour cela qu'il se trouve au sommet de la Pyramide du Corps. Des traditions entières de civilisations très anciennes ont consacré beaucoup de temps et de recherche à la respiration. Consultez par exemple ce que le Yoga dit sur la respiration. Il y a de quoi remplir des livres sur ce thème. 

Donc respirez bien, respirez lentement et consciemment et votre santé physique et morale sera nettement améliorée. A chaque fois que vous vous souvenez dans la journée, essayer de respirer lentement et profondément. Plus vous faite attention à votre respiration plus vous serez alertes et méditatif.