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Steady Wisdom: 12 Week Progress Check

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Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

DAY 84 

Arjuna said, “What is the description of the person with steady wisdom, whose mind abides in the self?”
Krishna said, “When, like a turtle that withdraws its limbs, this person is able to completely withdraw the sense organs from their objects, his knowledge is steady.”
-Bhagavad Gita 2:54 & 58
Meditation

When a person is able to withdraw their sense organs from objects, they are said to have steady wisdom.  There is no objection here.  But because I am not a person, nor do I admit the reality of the senses and their objects, how can I, the non-dual self, have steady wisdom?  As the one, unchanging reality, steadiness is my nature, not something I gain from a particular state of mind.  OM.      

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Steady Wisdom: Week 10 Progress Check

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Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

DAY 70

Arjuna said, “What is the description of the person with steady wisdom, whose mind abides in the self?”
Krishna said, “The one who is unattached in all situations, who neither rejoices on gaining the pleasant nor hates the unpleasant, his knowledge is well established.”
-Bhagavad Gita 2:54 & 57
Meditation

I am the self, one without a second.  Nothing other than me exists so there is nothing for me to be attached to.  The mind (and all of its states) are falsely superimposed on to me so when the mind rejoices I do not rejoice; when the mind hates, I do not hate; when the mind becomes established in knowledge, I do not become established in knowledge.

Ironically, a mind with steady wisdom negates the possibility that I myself have steady wisdom.  Why? Because it shows that I am reality itself, free of the mind, free of all qualities and distinctions.  OM.

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Steady Wisdom: 8 Week Progress Check

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Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

DAY 56-Week 8 Progress Check

Arjuna said, “What is the description of the person with steady wisdom, whose mind abides in the self?”
Krishna said, “The one who is not affected by adversities, who is without yearning for pleasures, and is free from longing, fear and anger, is said to be a wise person whose knowledge stays unshaken.” 
-Bhagavad Gita 2:54 & 56
Meditation

I am the self.  I am not affected by adversity.  I do not yearn for pleasure.  I am free from longing, fear and anger.  But freedom from adversity, yearning for pleasure, longing, fear and anger is not a state I attain—it is my very nature.  When my mind conforms to this knowledge, it is said to have steady wisdom.  But I, the self, am free from wisdom, steady or otherwise.  OM. 

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