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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 6

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 6

    In me alone everything is born, in me does everything rest and in me is everything dissolved. I am that brahman—there is none other than me.
    – Kaivalya Upanisad V. 19
    Meditation

    I am brahman, non-dual existence. Everything arises from my being and unto my being it returns. But because there is only me, this arising and returning is merely illusion. For how can I arise from myself? How can I return to myself? When a pot arises from clay, it is nothing but clay. When it returns to clay, it is nothing but clay. There is ever only clay and the pot is only an appearance. Like clay, I remain one and unchanged, regardless of the forms that seem to appear and disappear in me. Therefore, I do not depend on the body, mind or external circumstances to be the limitless reality that I am.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 5

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 5

    I have no family, lineage or social status.  I am not perceived by the senses. I am the unattached and formless witness of all.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 1:5
    Meditation

    Family, lineage and social status pertain to the body alone.  They do not pertain to me, the witness of the body.  In truth there is no body—there is only me, non-dual existence.  So to whom can I be related?  From whom can I descend?  To what class of society can I belong?  To what can I be attached?  Unlike the body, I am not an object of the senses—therefore I have no form.  Having no form I am free of all qualities, all descriptions and all classifications.  This means I cannot be defined or limited in any way. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 4

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 4

    I am other than the mind so there is no sorrow, attachment, malice or fear for me. As the scriptures say, “The self is without breath and without mind, pure, beyond maya and yet its very essence.”
    Atma Bodha V.32
    Meditation

    Sorrow, attachment, malice and fear are states of mind alone—I am free from them all because I am other than the mind. It cannot be me because it is known to me. Nor can it belong to me, for in truth there is nothing other than myself. Because there is only me, consciousness-existence, there is nothing to taint me—I am ever pure. I have no breath because I have no body. Breath, mind and body are merely maya, illusion, and I am beyond maya. I am never affected by it even though I am its essence, the same way that water is unaffected by the wave even though it is the essence of the wave. Knowing this, I remind myself that the illusory world depends on me to exist and not the other way around. For how can anything be without me, pure being?

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 3

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 3:

    I do not change.  I have no form.  I am free from all impurity.  I am imperishable.  I am not the body which is unreal.
    -Aparokshanubhuti V.25
    Meditation

    The body is merely a form that appears in me, pure existence.  It is like the form of a clay pot appearing in formless clay.  Like clay is fundamentally unchanged and untainted by the form of the clay pot, I remain fundamentally unchanged and untainted by the form of the body.  Being formless and changeless, how can I perish?  Destruction, decline and death are only meaningful in relation to change and only applicable to that which has form.  I transcend them all.  Like the clay to the pot I am the real, the ground of being by whose merit form and change exist.  OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 2

    Steady Wisdom – 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    Day 2

    I am ever-free of any attachment; I am existence, consciousness, bliss; I am the immortal, changeless self.
    Brahma Jnanavali V.2
    Meditation

    I am not attached because attachment is merely a transient thought in my mind.  If it comes and goes, how can it be real?  How can it be me, who am ever present as consciousness, the knower of the thought?  No thought can ever be attached to me because there is only me—pure existence, the essence of everything, seen and unseen.  I am by nature devoid of suffering.  Unlike the mind and body, I was not born and I will not die, for how can I, pure being, come into being?  If I have no beginning, how can I have and end?  Beginning-less and endless, I do not change.  All forms of experience in the states of waking, dream and deep sleep come and go like waves in the infinite ocean of myself.  I am the water of pure existence.  No matter what wave of experience arises in me, I remain unchanged. OM.

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