The concept of bless the earth was intended as an expression of environmental conscience as a manifestation of our conscious existence. By using meditation as a vehicle to bring greater awareness into our thoughts and actions, we can discover our own inner peace, not only for the benefit of ourselves and all others, but for the environment too!

There are as many expressions of individual consciousnesses in this world as there are people, animals, birds, fish and insects etc; how many trillions of individual expressions is that?

However, in the human realm, many of us take our existence for granted, a state of being that's on some sort of permanent auto pilot; we seem to exist in such and such a place, this is my life, these are my possessions, my family, my body, my feelings.
It's unfortunate however that as thinking humans, our sense of being can lead us to extreme behaviour in pursuit of our comforts and often exaggerated needs, which invariably precede any consideration as to where those resources actually came from.


    But what would it mean to you, to stop for a moment and consider the consequences of your everyday actions?
To consider that almost everything we consume has an endless chain of interlinked events and which required incredible demands on the earth to provide them; all the materials and/ or chemicals, the energy consuming heat processes in manufacture, the transportation (all that steel and fuel), all the people and their mobility, all the factory and storage buildings, all the electricity, gas, fuel oil, the machines that make the machines; the chain is absolutely endless!!

    But even in your own story;
        Do you really need to throw away one thing just to buy the latest thing?
        Do you really need to fly up the country when you could take a train?
        Do you really need to boil a full kettle of water for one mug of tea?
        Do you need to leave all the lights on, and leave your TV's and monitors on standby?
        Do you need to leave all your power supplies plugged in, generating wasted heat?
        Do you think of the VAST amounts of power (for the servers and their cooling)
            required by the thousands of server farms around the world running the internet?
        Do you really need to buy your vegetables in HDPE moulded packaging?
        Do you share a single thought for the animal or fish you're about to eat?

    I guess by now you've got the drift?
   

  
     Having a conscience-awareness isn't about abandonment of life to live in a naturally formed cave; it could be about abandonment of our attachments to things; but more important, it's about living life to the full, but in full awareness of our every action.