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Mind vs. Heart
[Written Dec. 9, 2021] I’ve been thinking, lately, about a shift in my consciousness. I’m leaning toward describing it as a shift from...
Bill Smith
Aug 18, 20243 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Nov 2, 20231 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Oct 30, 20231 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Oct 29, 20232 min read
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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....
Bill Smith
Jul 15, 20232 min read
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Bill Smith
Mar 10, 20230 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Nov 5, 20222 min read
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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,...
Bill Smith
Nov 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Sep 30, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Sep 10, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Sep 8, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Sep 7, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Aug 29, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Aug 25, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Aug 25, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Jul 20, 20224 min read
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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,...
Bill Smith
Jul 19, 20222 min read
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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...
Bill Smith
Jul 9, 20221 min read
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