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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 41

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 41

    I am free from the workings of the mind.  In truth there is no empirical world or absolute reality, no happiness or misery.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 20:10
    Meditation

    The mind always thinks of things in terms of opposites such as the relative vs. the absolute or happiness vs. misery.  But I am free from the workings of the mind so I am untouched by these distinctions.  I am the non-dual reality that makes dualistic thinking possible; and yet, I am unaffected by it. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 39

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 39

    Just as all clay pots are nothing but clay, the whole universe is nothing but me.  Thus proclaims Vedanta.
    -Brahma Jnanavali V.19
    Meditation

    Everything that exists is me, existence itself.  And yet, I myself am not a thing.  Just as all clay pots are nothing but clay, the whole universe is nothing but me.  But just as clay is never truly a clay pot, I am never truly the universe or any part of it.  Therefore, I am free from samsara. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 38

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 38

    In my presence the sun does not shine, nor does the moon and stars, nor does lightning or fire.  When I shine, everything else follows.  By my light, all these are lighted.
    -Katha Upanishad 2.2.15
    Meditation

    I am pure consciousness.  Everything is illumined by my “light,” even the light of the sun, moon, stars, lightning and fire.  For how could the light of these be known without me, knowingess itself?  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 35

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 35

    I am the limitless ocean of consciousness.  In me the wind of the mind produces the diverse waves of the world.  I remain unaffected. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 2:23
    Meditation

    The world appears as thought-waves in the ocean of the mind.  But the mind appears as a wave in me, the limitless ocean of consciousness.  The mind comes, goes and changes but I, consciousness, remain unchanged.  Therefore I am unaffected by the world. 

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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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