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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 61

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 61

    I have no attributes or impurities; I am free of desire and action; I am the eternal, formless and changeless self; I am ever-free. 
    -Atma Bodha V. 35
    Meditation

    I am not the transient, ever changing forms referred to as “this body” and “this mind.”  Therefore I am not defined by their attributes; I am untainted by their impurities; I am unmoved by their desires; I am untouched by their actions.  Just as sand is not moistened by the water of a mirage, I am unaffected by the mirage of the body and mind.  I am ever-free…not that I was ever bound.  OM. 

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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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