I love metaphysics and nonduality! My passion is a scavenger hunt in western and eastern philosophies and spiritual traditions to find the commonalities among them. I have found that one and the same truth is expressed in all of them, and that they all differ only in the outward form of their expressions. My search is primarily inspired and shaped by Vedanta Metaphysics and Husserlian Phenomenology, particularly Husserl's method of Phenomenological Reduction which allows one to access the transcendental dimension of consciousness. I started my blog NOEMAYA in 2013 to share my findings and experiences. I also started a book series on nonduality and published my first book called "Nondual Perspectives on Quantum Physics" in 2014. I have a degree in theoretical physics from the University of Maryland and currently teach physics and mathematics to high school students.
All real growth begins in the gap between stimulus and response. Not by controlling what happens, but by choosing how we meet it. Playfulness is what keeps that gap open—because play doesn’t trigger resistance the way protest does. It sneaks past the defenses of habit and makes change possible. … More Living in the Pause: An Attitude of Playfulness Toward Change
To say that matter preceded consciousness is already to speak from within consciousness. The claim itself is not matter, not solidity or extension, but a thought—an event of awareness. Thus, the very gesture of asserting matter’s primacy undermines itself, for what appears as primary is already secondary to the condition that allows it to appear at all. Consciousness is not a thing among things; it is the openness in which “thingness” itself becomes possible. It is not contained by the world, but rather the world is contained in it as appearance, as meaning. … More Which Came First: Consciousness or the World?
All behavior is a mask shielding us from the feelings we fear most. Unmasking begins by setting the behavior aside so we can finally see what it was covering—then facing those very fears. From avoidance we move to tolerance, from tolerance to acceptance, and finally into love, where suffering itself is transformed. … More The Play of Masks: How to Drop the Mask of Behavior and Love Your Suffering
The Self shines as meaning itself, casting light through us into the world. Reality is nothing fixed but a story we choose to tell. When we drop our old narratives, infinite possibility opens before us, and freedom is found in the simple act of assigning new meaning. … More The Shining of Meaning: Owning the Meaning of Our Lives
We cannot escape suffering, but we can choose its form and transform it into meaning. To live deeply is to govern the inner city, to hold all parts of ourselves, and to remember the original understanding: everything finds its way. … More Everything Finds Its Way: Choosing Your Suffering, Finding Your Meaning
Life is not something we kill—it only flows, and our habits carve the grooves that direct its course. Every repetition becomes a channel, shaping whether we move toward light or darkness. This reflection explores how small, consistent shifts can gradually redirect the flow of life toward clarity and growth. … More The Channels We Carve: Habits Set Grooves That Shape Life’s Flow
The parable of the king and the jester speaks to a deeper truth: when we forget our higher self, smallness takes the throne and life shrinks to fit it. Yet forgetfulness always carries the seed of awakening. This is a call to remember who you are and reclaim the crown that was always yours. … More The King and the Jester: On Forgotten Greatness, Fear, and Return
Have we made life so safe and structured that it’s become dull? What if our reality is already a simulation—and we’re stuck in a cycle of chasing the thrill we’ve forgotten? … More The Play of Restlessness: Are We Living in a Forgotten Simulation?
Continuously expose yourself to the Good, and the rest will take care of itself. Grace and willingness and strength will naturally flow into your life if you desire and gaze at it enough, for that’s the nature of the Good, to overflow and give away freely to whatsoever is facing it. … More Toward the Good: The Soul and the Geometry of Alignment
To be serene isn’t about managing and manipulating your environment into peace, for most often you yourself are the element of chaos, and your attempts at bringing peace is the very cause of disturbance.
Alternatively, one can find serenity by a simple act of reframing the will, the wish, and the goal:
If I want perfection to be the goal and wish that it’s the case, then by reframing what is as the perfect state of things, then the goal is already achieved and my wish instantly fulfilled. And if I will what already is, then I’m doing as I wish, for my wish, too, is what already is.
The cause of suffering is to wish things to be otherwise than they are, and that’s insanity to wish something that has already appeared in a certain form to have appeared differently. … More Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business
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