Tag: avadhuta gita

  • 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 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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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 16

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    Day 16

    I have neither mother nor father nor children.  I was never born nor will I ever die.  The mind does not belong to me.  I am the absolute reality, always steady, never agitated.  I am immortal consciousness, ever the same like space. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 3:22
    Meditation

    The illusory body has a mother and a father—this is true.  But to say that I, immortal consciousness, have a mother and father?  That is false. I am existence itself, absolute reality, and whatever truly exists always has and always will exist.  So I cannot come into being—I have always been.  Therefore I was never born. 

    The illusory body begets children—this is also true.  But to say that I, immortal consciousness, beget children?  That is also false.  I am existence itself, absolute reality.  I am one without a second, for what could exist but existence itself?  There is none other than me so nothing can truly arise or descend from me.  And that includes the mind; like the body it is merely illusion.  As such I am never subject to its wavering or agitation.  Like space, I remain steady and ever the same. 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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