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  • Steady Wisdom: Week 10 Progress Check

    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: Day 69

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 69

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

    I am pure being, the “clay” to which the universe owes its existence.  Just as all objects made of clay are nothing but clay, the universe is nothing but me.  And just as clay remains clay despite the appearance of clay objects, I remain pure being despite the appearance of the universe.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 67

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 67

    I’m not affected by good or bad karma, bondage or liberation.  My nature is ever-free; there is no maya for me. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 4:6
    Meditation

    Maya makes the impossible possible:  it makes me, the ever-free self, appear to be the body-mind.  When I take this appearance at face value, I believe I am subject to good and bad karma, bondage and liberation.  But when I recognize maya as the illusion it is, I understand that I never have and never will be affected by good or bad karma.  I see clearly that I cannot attain liberation because I was never bound.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 66

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 66

    There is no day or night in the sun because its very nature is light.  Similarly, there is no knowledge or ignorance in me since my very nature is consciousness, void of all distinctions. 
    -Upadesha Sahasri 17:66 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    The sun shines on the earth, making day and night possible.  But because its very nature is light, the sun remains unaffected by day and night. 

    The self shines on the mind, making ignorance and knowledge possible.  But because its very nature is consciousness, the self remains unaffected by ignorance and knowledge. 

    I am that self, void of all distinctions such as ignorance and knowledge.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 65

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 65

    The universe is merely an illusion.  Of what interest can it be to me?  What reason is there to fear death? 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 3:11
    Meditation

    The body-mind will surely die.  But seeing as the body-mind is part and parcel of the illusory universe, its death is also illusory.  What reason is there to fear an illusion? 

    Further, what does an illusion have to offer me?  Similar to the way that food in a dream cannot satisfy hunger in the waking state, I cannot find satisfaction or security in the illusory world after I’ve awoken to my true nature as the absolute reality.  OM. 

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