An escape route to the truth about reality

Geoff Ward
4 min readJun 17, 2022
Shiva, the supreme deity of Hinduism.

‘We all get a little dirty rolling around in the mud of samsara.’ Daniel McKenzie

The Eastern spiritual concept of samsara has many related meanings but they all arise from the idea that we suffer because we’re unable to see the truth about reality; that reality is not the familiar world we see about us in the quotidian but an eternal realm behind or beyond it.

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Geoff Ward

Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).