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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 86

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 86

    I am neither the doer nor the enjoyer.  There is no karma for me, past or present.  I have no body nor is the body mine.  There is only me so what could be mine or not-mine? 
    -Avadhuta Gita 1:66
    Meditation

    The thoughts, “I’m doing this” and “I’m enjoying the results of my actions” are just that: thoughts.  Because those thoughts are transient, they can’t be real.  Because they’re known to me, they can’t be me.  Therefore, I am neither the doer nor the enjoyer.  For the same reasons, I am not the body. 

    Because I am not the doer nor the body I perform no karma.  Because I perform no karma, I don’t reap the results of karma. 

    But considering the fact that I am non-dual, it’s improper to say “I am not the thought of doership nor is the thought of doership mine” or “I have no body nor is the body mine” or “I have no karma nor is the karma mine” because I do not admit the existence of the doer, the enjoyer, the body or karma in myself, the one reality.  And that which does not exist can neither belong to me nor not belong to me.  OM.

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 85

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 85

    I am the self, the essence from which the universe arises and into which it dissolves, like waves and foam arising and dissolving into the sea. 
    -Avadhuta Gita 2:34
    Meditation

    When waves arise from water and dissolve back into water, nothing is added or subtracted from the water—its nature as water remains completely unchanged.  And while the waves depend entirely on the water for their existence, the existence of water is completely independent of the existent of the waves.

    Similarly, when the universe arises from me, pure being, and dissolves back into me, nothing is added or subtracted from me—my nature as pure being remains completely unchanged.  And while the universe depends entirely on me, pure existence, for its illusory existence, I am completely independent of the illusory existence of the universe. 

    Therefore, let the universe come and go—I remain the same.  I do not depend on its illusory existence to be the limitless reality that I naturally am.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: 12 Week Progress Check

    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: Day 82

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 82

    The body comes and goes. Since I am the self that neither comes nor goes, there is no reason to mourn. 
    -Ashtavakra Samhita 15:9
    Meditation

    The fact that I can say, “The body comes, goes and changes” proves that I, the witness of the body, do not come, go or change.  I must exist prior to the thought, “Here is the body” because if I came into existence along with the thought of the body I would be unaware of the thought’s previous non-existence owing to the fact that I too would have been previously non-existent (and therefore not present to recognize the arising of the thought of the body).  By the same logic, I must exist after any particular thought of the body otherwise I would disappear along with the thought (and therefore not be present to recognize the disappearance of that particular thought of the body). 

    Nor do I change when the body changes, such as when the body changes from childhood to adulthood.  Because if I were identical with the changing body, then when the childhood body changed into the adult body (and thus no longer existed) I too would no longer exist.  And a non-existence entity would not be present and able to say, “Now here is my adult body.”

    So unlike the body, I do not come, go or change.  I am ever-present and immutable.  OM. 

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  • Steady Wisdom: Day 81

    Steady Wisdom: 108 Verses On Changing My Thinking

    DAY 81

    For me, the self, there is no state of freedom or bondage; no state of virtue or vice; no state of fullness or emptiness.  Dear mind, you are none other than me.  There is no reason to grieve.
    -Avadhuta Gita 5:19
    Meditation

    Dear mind, you seek freedom because you believe you are bound.  But you are not.  You seek to get good karma and avoid bad karma because you believe you are the ego and the body.  But you are not.  You seek to determine if your nature is full or empty because you believe you can be defined by abstract dualistic concepts such as “fullness” and “emptiness.”  But you cannot. 

    Dear mind, relax.  You are none other than me, the self.  There is no reason to grieve.  OM. 

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