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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 12

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 12

    Virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, belong to the mind, not me, the all-pervading one. I am not the doer or enjoyer. I am ever free.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:6
    Meditation

    I am all-pervasive pure being—I exist everywhere at all times. How then could I be the mind which is limited to the body and subject to disappearance in deep sleep? That being so, I am free of the mind—I am unaffected by its various states such as virtue and vice, pleasure and pain. I am also untouched by the ego, the thought of “I” in the mind which claims the actions of the body-mind as its own. Because the ego is known to me, it cannot be me. Because the ego continuously vacillates between, “I did this” and “I am enjoying the results of my actions” it cannot be real. But I am real—the ever-present, unchanging, all-pervasive self. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 11

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 11

    I am not limited by the body, senses, or intellect. Good and bad karma do not affect me in the least. Old age and death, hunger and thirst, grief and delusion do not touch me. I am none other than pure consciousness, the ever-free.
    – Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha V.841
    Meditation

    I am pure consciousness. The body, senses and intellect are known to me so they cannot be me—nor can they limit me. Good and bad karma, old age and death pertain to the body—they do no pertain to me, pure consciousness. Hunger and thirst belong to the senses—they do not belong to me, pure consciousness. Grief and delusion affect the intellect—they do not affect me, pure consciousness. I am untouched by them all. I am ever-free. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 10

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 10

    I need no support but I am the support of all; I have no desires to be fulfilled; I am the immortal, changeless self.
    – Brahma Jnanavali V.15
    Meditation

    The universe depends on me but I do not depend on it. For how can anything exist without me, existence itself? Therefore, I do not have to rely on the body, mind or world for security. Because they are ever-changing and unreal objects, they have nothing to offer me, the immortal, changeless self. So I watch the objects come and go, all the while remaining satisfied in myself. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 9

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 9

    Attachment and aversion belong to the mind but the mind does not belong to me. I am unchanging consciousness, free of all thought.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 15:5
    Meditation

    The mind, being an ever-changing flow of thoughts such as attachment and aversion, is not real. Being unreal, it cannot belong to me anymore than a dream house can belong to me upon waking. Because I am the ever-present, unchanging witness of the unchanging mind, I am free of all thought. Thoughts come and go but I, consciousness, remain unaffected. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 8

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 8

    I am without beginning, middle and end. I am never bound. By nature I am pure and perfect—this is my firm conviction.
    – Avadhuta Gita 1:44
    Meditation

    Objects alone have a beginning, middle and end. But being the essence of all objects, I myself am not an object—therefore I am eternal. Bondage, impurity and imperfection, being concepts that refer to the state of objects, do not and cannot affect me. OM.

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