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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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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 64

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 64

    The mind’s discriminating cognition, “I am the knower alone, never an object of knowledge, pure, eternally liberated” belongs to the intellect.  It is a transitory object known to me. 
    -Upadesha Sahasri 12:14 (Metrical)
    Meditation

    Self-ignorance, in the form of a thought such as the firm conviction “I am the body-mind” is an object known to me.  Self-knowledge, in the form of a thought such as the firm conviction, “I am the self” is also an object known to me.  Since it is clear that both self-ignorance and self-knowledge are objects known to me, I realize that I wasn’t deluded in the first place.  Nor am I now an enlightened.  I am, and always have been, the eternally liberated self (not that I was ever bound).  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Week 9 Progress Check

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 63 – Week 9 Progress Check

    The steady one who sees the same everywhere, sees no difference between happiness and misery, man and woman, and prosperity and adversity.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 17:15
    Meditation

    Even though I experience the dualistic, relative and mutually exclusive opposites such as happiness and misery etc., I see (clearly understand) that they are all the same as myself, the non-dual absolute.  OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 62

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 62

    I am infinite and pure, free from attachment and desire.  I am at peace.  Objects are illusory and they do not limit me in any way.
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 7:4
    Meditation

    Attachment and desire are but thoughts and feelings that periodically appear in my mind.  As a lamp is not limited by the objects it illuminates, I am not limited by the thoughts and feelings that are known to me. Therefore, when the mind is tainted by attachment and disturbed by desire, I remain pure and fully at peace.  OM.

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