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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 53

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 53

    I am devoid of thought, even when engaged in thought; I am devoid of the sense-organs, even though I have them; I am devoid of intellect, even though endowed with it; and I am devoid of the sense of ego, even though possessed of it. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 18:95
    Meditation

    I am not a thought.  I am not the sum of my sense perceptions.  I am not the reasoning faculty of my mind.  I am not even the sense of “I.”  All of these things are transient objects that are known to me and I am not what I know.  I am the self, untouched by them all. 

    And yet, thoughts, sense perceptions, etc. are all me because they have no existence apart me, existence itself.  They depend on me but I do not depend on them.  How inexplicable but liberating is that!  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: 7 Week Progress Check

    Steady Wisdom:  108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 49

    One who has the firm conviction, “this is done by the body and not by me, the pure self” does not act, even while acting.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 18:25
    Meditation

    I, the pure self, do not act, even when the body acts.  I, the pure self, do not think, even when the mind thinks.  Therefore, I, the pure self, do not do nididhyasana, even when the body-mind does nididhyasana.  This is my firm conviction. 

    After 7 weeks of nididhyasana, I remind myself that the primary goal of Vedanta is to help me see that I am the pure self, not the body, the mind or any combination of the two.  When I directly realize this for myself, I can patiently and objectively correct the behavior of my body-mind, all the while understanding that I am never defined or affected by the state or activity of the body-mind.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 48

    Steady Wisdom:  108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 48

    Untouched by suffering, beyond all illusory appearances and free from doubt and indecision, I am all-pervasive; I am not the body which is unreal. 
    -Aparokshanubhuti V.26
    Meditation

    I am not the body nor the mind, both of which are illusory appearances projected onto myself, the one, all-pervasive reality.  Because I am not the body or mind, I am free from doubt, indecision and suffering.  I am the one, limitless reality.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 47

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 47

    I am immutable, formless and unperturbed consciousness.  I am unaffected by the appearance of the body and mind. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 1:17
    Meditation

    What reveals the forms of the body and mind?  Me, pure consciousness. Does consciousness assume the forms that it illuminates?  No, therefore I am formless.  Is consciousness perturbed by the forms it illuminates?  No, therefore I am unaffected by the appearance of the body and mind. OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 46

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 46

    I have no father, mother or family; I was never born nor will I die.  It cannot be said that I have affection or delusion.  I am ever-free by nature; there’s no illusion for me. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 4:21
    Meditation

    The body is born to a mother and father but I, the self, am not.  Rather, the body is “born” to me, pure existence.  As such, I am present and unaffected before the birth of the body and I remain present and unaffected after its death. 

    The mind suffers from affection and delusion but I, the self, do not.  Rather, the affection and delusion of the mind are “revealed” by me, pure consciousness.  Just as the sun is free of all that it illumines, so I am free of the mind.  There’s no illusion for me. OM.

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