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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 33

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 33

    I am not an object of the five senses nor do they belong to me.  I am the ultimate reality so there is no reason to grieve.
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:16
    Meditation

    As the Kena Upanishad says, “I am the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, the speech of speech, the breath of breath, the eye of the eye.”  For how can there be hearing, thinking, speech, breath or sight without me, pure consciousness?  As consciousness, I am not an object of the senses because the senses are objects known to me.  And as the ultimate reality, pure existence, the senses depend on me and not the other way around (for how can the senses exist without me, existence itself?).  Therefore, I am not afflicted by the suffering caused by the senses and I do not need the senses to be the limitless self I already am.  There is no reason to grieve. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 32

    Steady Widsom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 32

    I am not the ever-changing body and mind.  I am unchanging, non-dual consciousness.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:13
    Meditation

    It is undeniable that the body and mind change from year to year, day to day and moment to moment.  But how do I know this?  Because I am the consciousness that illuminates the body and mind.  Just as the sun is unchanged by the things it illuminates, I am unchanged by the body and mind.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 31

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 31

    I am other than the body so there is no birth, death, or decrepitude for me.  The senses do not belong to me so I am uninvolved with, and unaffected by, the objects of the senses such as sound etc. 
    -Atma Bodha V.33
    Meditation

    The body is a temporary form that arises in me, pure being, like the form of a pot arising from clay.  Just as clay is present and unaffected before, during and after the arising of the pot, so am I present and unaffected before, during and after the arising of the body.  Therefore, there is no birth, death or decrepitude for me. 

    The senses are temporary forms that appear in me, pure consciousness, like waves arising from water.  Just as a wave cannot belong to water because a wave is nothing separate or different from water, the senses cannot belong to me because they are nothing separate or different from me, pure consciousness.  Just as water is unaffected (fundamentally unchanged) by a wave, so am I unaffected by the senses and their objects. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 30

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 30

    I witness my body acting as if it were someone else’s.  There is no reason to be disturbed by praise or blame. 
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 3:10
    Meditation

    How strange is it that while I am absolutely clear that I am not another person’s body, I identify with this body that looks and feels closest to me, call it “myself” and claim its actions as my own.  But how can this be?  I witness the bodies of others the same as I witness this one—they are all thoughts known to me. As such, this body cannot be me.  I merely witness it acting, the same as I witness the actions of other’s bodies.  Just as I cannot be praised or blamed for the actions of other’s bodies that I witness, I cannot be praised or blamed for the actions of this body that I witness.  I am the action-less, blameless self.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 29

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 29

    I have no body nor am I bodiless.  I have no mind, intellect or senses.  It cannot be said that I am either attached or unattached.  My nature is ever-free; there’s no illusion for me. 
    – Avadhuta Gita 4:12
    Meditation

    There is no illusion for me; despite the appearance of the body and mind I know I am pure being, reality itself.  Just because I have no body does not mean I am bodiless.  Just because objects cannot attach themselves to me (affect me) does not mean I am unattached.  Embodied and bodiless, attached and unattached are dualistic opposites.  I am non-dual so I transcend them all.  I am ever-free.   

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