awakening – NOEMAYA

Samsara is Nirvana

31 Mar 2026

A reflection on the illusion of separateness: the world we chase is shaped by our own ideas, and the self we cling to is only a layer over something deeper. What we call personality, desire, and even reality are constructions laid upon a more fundamental awareness. Peace doesn’t come from fixing the world or acquiring more—it comes from seeing through the ideas that bind us and recognizing that we are already whole, already the ground from which all experience arises. … More Samsara is Nirvana

The King and the Jester: On Forgotten Greatness, Fear, and Return

20 Aug 2025

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

The Three-Fold Lie

11 Nov 2024

Now, the opposite movement, the ascent to heaven, is not a matter of fixing things or some sort of a material or metaphysical redemption but a matter of awakening to this whole narrative-construct of our situation and realizing that not only we can’t fix things, but also there’s nothing to fix, that nothing is really broken; and that in the final analysis, there’s nothing truly ours, even the stream of our thoughts and feelings and of the human experience in which we always find ourselves, so we are already totally ok and enough. We are just witnessing. Just like God, we have no power over anything, and nothing has any power over us. … More The Three-Fold Lie

The Other Side of Pain

5 Sep 2023

The field is raw and empty. Several campfires spread across the land and a few of them are still breathing their last breaths but no one is around to receive their fading warmth. Everything is soaked in the dusk and the face of the field has started trembling with muffled echoes of the dark. In … More The Other Side of Pain

The Holy Passage

20 May 2022

Grateful to Science & Nonduality for publishing my poem “The Holy Passage.” https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/article/the-holy-passage#

The Sliding Doors and The Eternal Now

1 Apr 2022

There is an invisible door right here and right now, opening and closing all day, beyond which bliss and eternal life await us. To cross, one needs only drop “the doing.” … More The Sliding Doors and The Eternal Now

The Garden of Eden: Paradise Buried Alive

31 Mar 2022

I am lost in some strange neighborhood of my mind; there are so many buildings and high-rises in every direction that I have lost my sense of orientation. I don’t know how I ended up here. It is strange like a dream: I have somehow naively accepted the inception and reality of this place but … More The Garden of Eden: Paradise Buried Alive

Prison Break

9 Mar 2021

I have become world-loose again; warm and detached, I am nearing the sun that melts the shackles of these cunning appearances. I have a foot out, a foot in; an illusive essence and a human mask, a wavelength and a momentum. I’m not in the world, and not of it, at least tonight. The world … More Prison Break

Hidden by Obviousness

14 Apr 2020

It is hidden by its omnipresence and obviousness. It is sought by all but found by none: It is there at all times; it is the act of looking for It that conceals Its reality. It is a jokester: It is veiled by Its unveiling; It hides Itself by showing Itself. There is no veil … More Hidden by Obviousness

The Play of Masks

27 Jun 2019

I wear a mask made of nothing, you don’t see it on my face but I feel it all the time. The story has it that I am hideous, but god knows who has that story! I wove the mask I wear with the labor of time; it is a conglomeration of conflicting stories teamed … More The Play of Masks