Action and mind vs. heart
This is from my journal, originally written in November, 2021: I try to use Nisargadatta’s teaching about good and bad actions: If it...
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Bill Smith
- Oct 30
- 1 min
Why do I believe in non-duality?
Originally written in my journal November 18, 2021 At one of the zoom meetings, something got me questioning, “Why do I really believe...
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Bill Smith
- Oct 30
- 2 min
Finding the source
The three poems I’ve recently posted (Rumi’s Where Everything is Music, Gabriela Mistral’s Drinking -- or To Drink in another...
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Bill Smith
- Oct 29
- 2 min
Three poems
I'm going to post links to 3 of my favorite poems first, then discuss them together in another post. First, a beautiful poem by Rumi from...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Two steps to not two
Most of us have these insights; they come and go, just like peaceful days and less pleasant ones. So I don’t want to make too much of it....
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Bill Smith
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
On what manifests
I’d like to introduce two connected topics: What have we “gained” by following this path? Does it make the world a better place? Does it...
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Bill Smith
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
King Lear and John Smith
Note: This discussion is based on Rupert Spira's metaphor of King Lear and John Smith: King Lear represents our unrealized separate self,...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
Ramana Maharshi: Attention to the "I"
Recently, both from following this “attention to the ‘I’ process,” and from reading the Q&A between Ramana and his followers, I gained a...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 10, 2022
- 2 min
This dream
I had a realization one recent morning. I wonder if it will last, or if it’s just a flash of insight. Last night, I went to sleep reading...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Never mind...
Recently, both from following this “attention to the ‘I’ process,” and from reading the Q&A between Ramana and his followers, I gained a...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Non-dual zoom groups
Although from the point of view of Awareness, there is no progression to Awareness, no “development” or “stages,” many of us who haven’t...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 6, 2022
- 1 min
At the threshold
I have this threshold experience where I get right up to the door of Awareness but the doorman says, “Sorry, bud, you can’t get in.” “But...
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Bill Smith
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
Fear of your father
My dad told me a few stories about my grandfather, TW, who died when Dad was about 16. TW was a big man, like my dad, and Dad was afraid...
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Bill Smith
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
Very special Nisargadatta quote
I’ve been reading this quote from Nisargadatta (I Am That) for several days. I find it rich with meaning. I’d like to share the quote and...
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Bill Smith
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
There is only one love, one beauty
In the zoom meeting today, I expressed my concern that I seemed too often be diminished or raised up by “others.” I would have a period...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
On balance in the universe
Note: All quotes are from Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao te ching. In a recent non-dual zoom meeting, someone raised the...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
An indescribable "experience"
I had an experience when I awoke late last night. I put quotation marks around “experience” because I know Holger will jump on that term,...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 9, 2022
- 1 min
Memories of my dad
When I was in elementary school, maybe 5th grade, I tried to play little league football. I was very small, had small bones, and was not...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
Experience moves through the self
I’ve been listening to the meditations from the Garrison Retreat, and in one, Rupert says that “the Self doesn’t move through experience,...
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