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Tag: Self-Inquiry

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 18

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 18

    Ever free from name, form and action, I am the self, the supreme brahman, one without a second.
    -Upadesha Sahasri 11:7 (Metrical)

    Meditation

     I am the self, the supreme brahman, one without a second.  Since I alone exist, how could I be anything other than myself?  The body-mind is merely a fleeting form described by an arbitrary name.  But I am the ever-present nameless reality that underlies all names and forms, myself defying all description–I cannot be the body-mind.  Because I am not the body-mind, I perform no actions and reap no results.  I have no karma.  I am the ever-free self. OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 17

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 18

    That which has form is impermanent and unreal. I am formless, permanent and real. Knowing this, I am freed from death and rebirth.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:18
    Meditation

    The definition of real is: permanent and unchanging.  For how could something be real if it is here one moment and gone the next?  How could something be real if it is one thing one moment and something else the next?  By that definition, the body and mind cannot be real.  They are mere forms, continuously changing transient objects that are known to me.  Being unreal, they cannot be me.  Being known to me, they cannot be me.  Only the body and mind are subject to death and rebirth.  Knowing that I cannot be the body and mind, I recognize that I always have and always will be free from death and rebirth.  OM.  

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 14

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 14

    This is the absolute truth: I am neither gross nor subtle; I neither come nor go; I have no beginning, middle or end; there is no higher or lower in me. I am immortal consciousness, ever the same like space.
    – Avadhuta Gita 3:6
    Meditation

    I am neither a physical object like the body nor a mental object like a thought. Unlike them, I neither come nor go, I neither begin nor end. Instead, I am ever-present as their immortal witness, consciousness itself. And yet, like space, there are no divisions in me: no higher and lower, real and unreal, subject and object, knower and known. In truth, I am non-dual reality and all appearance of difference in me is falsehood. As such, I take the various states of the body-mind in stride, recognizing them for the illusory objects they are.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 12

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 12

    Virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, belong to the mind, not me, the all-pervading one. I am not the doer or enjoyer. I am ever free.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 1:6
    Meditation

    I am all-pervasive pure being—I exist everywhere at all times. How then could I be the mind which is limited to the body and subject to disappearance in deep sleep? That being so, I am free of the mind—I am unaffected by its various states such as virtue and vice, pleasure and pain. I am also untouched by the ego, the thought of “I” in the mind which claims the actions of the body-mind as its own. Because the ego is known to me, it cannot be me. Because the ego continuously vacillates between, “I did this” and “I am enjoying the results of my actions” it cannot be real. But I am real—the ever-present, unchanging, all-pervasive self. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 11

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 11

    I am not limited by the body, senses, or intellect. Good and bad karma do not affect me in the least. Old age and death, hunger and thirst, grief and delusion do not touch me. I am none other than pure consciousness, the ever-free.
    – Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha V.841
    Meditation

    I am pure consciousness. The body, senses and intellect are known to me so they cannot be me—nor can they limit me. Good and bad karma, old age and death pertain to the body—they do no pertain to me, pure consciousness. Hunger and thirst belong to the senses—they do not belong to me, pure consciousness. Grief and delusion affect the intellect—they do not affect me, pure consciousness. I am untouched by them all. I am ever-free. OM.

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