http://pemavajradesigns.com Recent blog posts from my shop. en-US Your beliefs? Taught.
Your identity? Assembled.
Your story? Rehearsed. So what part of that is actually you? Strip away culture, religion, race, gender, status, memory—what’s left? Don’t answer too fast.
That reflex to answer is the problem. We cling to identity like it’s oxygen. Why? Because belonging feels like survival. If I am this, then I belong there.
If I belong, then I am safe. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:43:32 -0400 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1480573113593/why-the-world-suffers https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1480573113593/why-the-world-suffers?pub=1776033812 In the relative world, orgasm is perhaps the closest most of us come to tasting the dissolution of separation. Not because of the act itself—but because of what disappears within it. For a fleeting instant, the illusion of subject and object collapses. There is no “one” having the experience. No giver. No receiver. No time. No distance. Just presence. This is why it is so sought after. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:38:04 -0400 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1478268518938/sex-spirituality-and-our-true-nature https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1478268518938/sex-spirituality-and-our-true-nature?pub=1775587084 Stop waiting. Stop looking outward. Stop trying to decode signs and symbols as if God is hiding behind the curtain of existence. There is no curtain. There is only this. And this is already speaking. Not in words——but in being. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:52:09 -0400 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1474541264718/a-message-from-god-for-the-me https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1474541264718/a-message-from-god-for-the-me?pub=1774385529 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:28:21 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1469738483779/the-magic-of-is https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1469738483779/the-magic-of-is?pub=1772159301 There is an ancient story about a wooden vessel carrying pairs of animals across a vast flood. We have read it as history, myth, religion, morality tale — but there is another way to see it. Noah’s Ark is the egoic self. Every one of us is that ark. We float in an immeasurable ocean — awareness itself. Within this ocean appears what we call “me.” A center point. A narrator. A chooser. A defender. A judge. And inside this ark live the pairs: masculine and feminine, attraction and aversion, fear and desire, pride and shame, hope and despair. The ark is duality organized into a personality. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:27:36 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1464954484086/noahs-arkthe-egoic-self https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1464954484086/noahs-arkthe-egoic-self?pub=1770928056 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:39:45 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1465444105901/is-is-what-is-is https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1465444105901/is-is-what-is-is?pub=1770673185 Oneness isn’t achieved.
It isn’t learned.
It isn’t earned through merit badges or incense smoke. It is the simple recognition that: There was never a separation to begin with. Time Full mind dances. Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:26:23 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1453076321637/time-full-mind-versus-time-less-mind https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1453076321637/time-full-mind-versus-time-less-mind?pub=1767813983 In Dzogchen, we are often reminded not to fixate on states of mind but to notice their true nature: impermanent, luminous, self-liberating. Serenity, then, is not a goal but a glimpse—of what we are when the turbulence of grasping ends. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:40:35 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1448669217143/cascading-serenity-the-descent-of-grace https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1448669217143/cascading-serenity-the-descent-of-grace?pub=1766774435 Tibetan Buddhism, particularly Dzogchen, teaches that our natural state is pure awareness: rigpa, unborn and unceasing. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:29:21 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1448665308497/sacred-synthesis-tibetan-buddhism-meets https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1448665308497/sacred-synthesis-tibetan-buddhism-meets?pub=1766773761 Indra’s Net comes from ancient Vedic and Mahayana Buddhist traditions. It teaches that every being, every atom, every experience, is both unique and inseparable from the whole. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:19:37 -0500 https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1448661766341/indras-net-interbeing-in-the-age-of https://pemavajradesigns.com/post/1448661766341/indras-net-interbeing-in-the-age-of?pub=1766773177