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Category: Steady Wisdom

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 42

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 42

    In me there is neither existence nor non-existence, purity nor impurity.  I am neither everything nor am I nothing.  Dear mind, you are none other than me.  There is no reason to grieve. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 5:8
    Meditation

    Dear mind, stop causing yourself undue stress by trying to define me as existence, non-existence etc.  I am your very essence, that which cannot be defined by words or concepts.  Rest easy. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 41

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 41

    I am free from the workings of the mind.  In truth there is no empirical world or absolute reality, no happiness or misery.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 20:10
    Meditation

    The mind always thinks of things in terms of opposites such as the relative vs. the absolute or happiness vs. misery.  But I am free from the workings of the mind so I am untouched by these distinctions.  I am the non-dual reality that makes dualistic thinking possible; and yet, I am unaffected by it. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 40

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 40

    I am unattached to objects, actionless, self-luminous and without any blemish. This is my true nature whether or not I practice meditation.  Thinking otherwise is bondage. 
    -Ashtavakra Samita 1:15
    Meditation

    I am the pure, self-evident, actionless consciousness that is unattached to the mind, regardless of what it does or does not do.  This always has been true and always will be true.  I was only ensnared by bondage because I believed otherwise. OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 39

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 39

    Just as all clay pots are nothing but clay, the whole universe is nothing but me.  Thus proclaims Vedanta.
    -Brahma Jnanavali V.19
    Meditation

    Everything that exists is me, existence itself.  And yet, I myself am not a thing.  Just as all clay pots are nothing but clay, the whole universe is nothing but me.  But just as clay is never truly a clay pot, I am never truly the universe or any part of it.  Therefore, I am free from samsara. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 38

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 38

    In my presence the sun does not shine, nor does the moon and stars, nor does lightning or fire.  When I shine, everything else follows.  By my light, all these are lighted.
    -Katha Upanishad 2.2.15
    Meditation

    I am pure consciousness.  Everything is illumined by my “light,” even the light of the sun, moon, stars, lightning and fire.  For how could the light of these be known without me, knowingess itself?  OM. 

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