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Tag: Self-Inquiry

  • Steady Wisdom: Day 10

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 10

    I need no support but I am the support of all; I have no desires to be fulfilled; I am the immortal, changeless self.
    – Brahma Jnanavali V.15
    Meditation

    The universe depends on me but I do not depend on it. For how can anything exist without me, existence itself? Therefore, I do not have to rely on the body, mind or world for security. Because they are ever-changing and unreal objects, they have nothing to offer me, the immortal, changeless self. So I watch the objects come and go, all the while remaining satisfied in myself. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 9

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 9

    Attachment and aversion belong to the mind but the mind does not belong to me. I am unchanging consciousness, free of all thought.
    – Ashtavakra Samhita 15:5
    Meditation

    The mind, being an ever-changing flow of thoughts such as attachment and aversion, is not real. Being unreal, it cannot belong to me anymore than a dream house can belong to me upon waking. Because I am the ever-present, unchanging witness of the unchanging mind, I am free of all thought. Thoughts come and go but I, consciousness, remain unaffected. OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 7

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Days of Changing My Thinking

    DAY 7

    The knower, with all objects negated is ever the same like space, one without a second, ever liberated and ever pure—I am the brahman alone.
    – Upadesha Sahasri 12:11 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    When the reality of the body, mind and world is negated, I alone remain—I am one without a second. Since unreal objects cannot taint me or create a real difference in me, I am ever the same and pure like space. Like space I am never bound by the objects that appear in me. I am brahman alone. OM.

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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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