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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 20

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 20

    I am immutable and indivisible.  For me there is no action or inaction, no bondage or liberation.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 20:12
    Meditation

    Action and inaction depend on the division between the doer and the action itself.  But I am indivisible–there is no action or inaction for me.  Bondage and liberation depend on a change from one state to the next.  But I immutable–there is no bondage or liberation for me.  I am the non-dual, action-less and changeless self. OM.    

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 19

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 19

    I am ever-pure.  For me there is no body, mind or senses; there is no world but there is no nothingness.  I have no reason to despair. 
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 20:1
    Meditation

    There is no world insofar as it is an illusion.  But does that mean there is only nothingness?  No, because the body, mind and senses are a plain fact of my everyday experience—their existence, although illusory, cannot be denied.  I am their very essence, existence itself.  The body, mind and senses are merely waves in the limitless ocean of myself.  Just as water is untainted by waves, I am untainted by the body, mind and senses:  I am ever-pure.  Because I cannot be touched by the body, mind and senses, there is no reason to despair. OM.   

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 17

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 18

    That which has form is impermanent and unreal. I am formless, permanent and real. Knowing this, I am freed from death and rebirth.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:18
    Meditation

    The definition of real is: permanent and unchanging.  For how could something be real if it is here one moment and gone the next?  How could something be real if it is one thing one moment and something else the next?  By that definition, the body and mind cannot be real.  They are mere forms, continuously changing transient objects that are known to me.  Being unreal, they cannot be me.  Being known to me, they cannot be me.  Only the body and mind are subject to death and rebirth.  Knowing that I cannot be the body and mind, I recognize that I always have and always will be free from death and rebirth.  OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 13

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 13

    I am brahman, the all-pervading limitless reality. Just as space exists inside and outside of a jar but is not limited by it, I exist inside and outside all things but I am not limited by them.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:20
    Meditation

    I am the all-pervasive, limitless reality. The body, mind and world appear in me but do not divide or limit me in any way, similar to the way a jar appears in space but does not limit divide or limit space in any way. I am brahman—I remain unchanged by the presence or absence of objects.

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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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