End Of Knowledge

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 99

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 99

    I myself am that which is ever-calm, immutable, undivided, of the essence of limitless consciousness.  That alone is my true nature.
    -Paramahamsa Upanishad V.2
    Meditation

    I am limitless consciousness.  Therefore, I am calm when the mind is not; I am unchanging when the body-mind changes; I am undivided even when experience appears to be divided into subject and object.  This alone is my true nature. OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 97

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 96

    I am ever-pure.  In me there is no knower, no means of knowledge and no object of knowledge.  
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 20:8
    Meditation

    My non-dual nature is inviolable.  Divisions such as knower, known and knowledge can only appear in me through ignorance.  Realizing this, I need not seek myself as an object of knowledge because I am already myself.  I cannot be a knower because there is nothing outside of myself to be known.  I do not need to gain knowledge because I am the essence of all knowledge: consciousness-existence, one without a second.  OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 95

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 95

    My nature is neither pure nor impure.  My nature is neither existence nor non-existence.  I neither have form nor am I formless.  My nature is the absolute reality, beyond them all. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 3:45
    Meditation

    To speak of one thing is to affirm the existence of its opposite.  So to say that I am pure is to affirm the existence of impurity; to say that I am existence affirms the reality of non-existence; to say that I am formless is to affirm the existence of form.

    But I am one alone, without a second, without an opposite.  So while words can surely be used to point to my true nature, I can never be defined by words.  I am that “from which speech, along with the mind, turn back, unable to reach it.” At best, I can be described as, “Not this, not this.”  Knowing this, I abandon futile descriptions in the form of “the self is this” or “the self is that” and abide in myself alone.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 94

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 94

    I am indeed in all beings, and all beings are in me. Knowing this, there is nothing to be renounced, accepted or destroyed. 
    -Ashtavakra Sahmita 6:4
    Meditation

    I am brahman, the essence of everyone and everything.  There are no others but there is also no individual self.  There are no enemies and yet, there are no friends either.  There is no world but there is also no nothingness.  I am one alone, free of all dualistic opposites and I am perfect as I am.  Therefore, what is there to be renounced, accepted or destroyed?  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 92

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 92

    I am undifferentiated. For me there is no karma, no liberation-in-life and no liberation-in-death. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 20:4
    Meditation

    I am one alone and I have no internal divisions or differences.  In the absence of distinctions such as the agent of action (ego), the instrument of action (body) and the action itself, how can there be action (karma) at all?  Since action does not truly exist I cannot be bound by action or its results.  Because I am not bound, I do not need not be liberated, either here in this life or in death—not that life and death apply to me in the first place.  OM. 

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