May 7, 2026

First a note about me.  I’m in New York!  Why? For various reasons that may become clearer as I go.  I’m not sure how long I’ll be here, a couple weeks?  A few months? I’ll keep you informed.  But for now, a change of scene and a change of focus and I’m sure more to be revealed.  You’ll be the first to know.

There is a guru I have a great deal of respect for.  He was a simple tailor when he became liberated.  He had no interest in having a following or being a renowned guru so he stayed a tailor, stayed with him wife and children and kept his humble little tailor shop and let people find their own way to him if they happened to.

Word spread and sometimes small groups would gather in his cramped room.  Many foreigners soon learned of him and they began to come as well.  Eventually the idea of recording his words occurred to someone and it was allowed.  And much later those recordings made their way into a book.  That book is one of my favorites of its type.

His spiritual title became Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.  The book is called, I AM THAT.  The following is an excerpt of an exchange that took place between him and a visitor from the West who is designated the Questioner, or “Q.”  “M” designates his reply, the initial of his title Maharaj.

It a delightful mini-discourse as I think you might agree.
Enjoy,
XO Mayet

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Questioner: I have met some realized people, but never a liberated man.  Have you come across a liberated man, or does liberation mean, among other things, also abandoning the body?

Maharaj:  What do you mean by realization and liberation?

Q: By realization, I mean a wonderful experience of peace, goodness and beauty, when the world makes sense, and there is an all pervasive unity of both substance and essence. While such experience does not last, it cannot be forgotten. It shines in the mind, both as memory and longing. I know what I am talking about, for I have had such experiences.

By liberation, I mean to be permanently in that wonderful state. But what I am asking, is whether liberation is compatible with the survival of the body.

M: What is wrong with the body?

Q: The body is so weak and short-lived. It creates needs and cravings. It limits one grievously.

M: So what? Let the physical expressions be, and be limited. It is an instrument of experiencing, there is nothing amiss in this.  But liberation is of the self from its faults and self-imposed ideas.  Liberation is not contained in some particular experience, however, glorious.

Q: Does it last forever?

M: All experience is time bound. Whatever has a beginning must have an end.

Q: So liberation, in my sense of the word, does not exist.

M: On the contrary, one is always free. You are both conscious and free to be conscious. Nobody can take this away from you. Do you ever know yourself non-existing, or unconscious?

Q: I may not remember, but that does not disprove my being occasionally unconscious.

M: But who is it then that is conscious of your lapse into un, or less, conscious? Why not turn away from analyzing the experience of the experience, sir, and realize the full import of the only true statement you can make: ”I Am That.“

Q: How is that done?

M: Just keep in mind the feeling “I am”, merge into it, until your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts, you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection, and your mind will be firmly established in the thought–feeling I am. Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind.

Q: And you call it liberation?

M: I call it normal. What is wrong with being, acknowledging, knowing and acting so effortlessly and happy? Why consider it so unusual as to expect the immediate destruction of the body? What is wrong with the body that it should die in encountering it? Correct your attitude to your body and leave it alone. Don’t pamper, don’t torture. Just keep that balance going, most of the time below the threshold of conscious attention.  That is liberation.  And you are the only liberator there is.

April 30, 2026

Several weeks ago I wrote a Musing titled, A Frightening Diagnosis.  I had recently given a message from Spirit to someone who had just received a terminal diagnosis for a condition for which there was no treatment. 

I didn’t yet have permission to share the message itself so decided to write about it, having first a dialogue about spirit about such a diagnosis… what might they have me think about. A few of the visuals or metaphors were the same but it lacked the fullness of spirit of the original message.

Later when that person had received and integrated their message, we both felt it could be an important one for us all to have.

So today, here is the message as it came for them.  It carries such a simple potency for helping us all design a new way of walking our path.  It’s only slightly edited for privacy.

Beloved woman, as you have grown, you — like most others — have done so assuming that life should be largely knowable, sorting always for clarity, certainty, prediction. The desire being that the future make sense in advance and that the ground be solid beneath the feet.  Most of your life energy has gone to the endeavor of creating and maintaining the seeming safety and certainty of solid ground. 

Yet in truth, as you know, it rarely is.  In those moments in which you have glimpsed the true nature of things, it was clear that very little is actually known.

Most of what is called certain, in fact, is always and only a set of working assumptions. There is the assumption that tomorrow will resemble today, that the people who are loved will remain, that bodies will continue as they are and plans will unfold more or less as intended.  

In truth, however, it is ambiguity that has been your constant companion. You realize this, as all do, for it is widely known but rarely deeply acted within.  And so — full of anxiety and questions about how things will turn out — there is always the turning to psychics, experts, authorities, healers – diviners of the unknown.  And this is purposeful, well and good and is a fun way for you to communicate with Spirit.

Yet there is also a place in you, in all, that is knowing itself. You are meant to guide yourself there more often.  This is called the Living Way.

What you face now is the invitation from the Fullness to set yourself primarily upon this Way — which means the putting aside of the illusion of certainty, doing this so that you may live ever more gracefully with not-knowing. This then becomes your superpower — artfully living with ambiguity. That is your Way Forward, and what is that Way?  It is the discovery of the true power of The Unfolding Path.  

For you see, ambiguity has always been woven into the deepest truth of all, it is the core of the Unknown.  At the very heart of existence lies a vast and beautiful mystery — the creative force flowing through galaxies, forests, oceans, and through the unfolding of your own life.

Ambiguity is a spiritual orientation of high order.  It is the willingness to participate in a universe far more creative, surprising, and alive than your certainties would ever allow.

And in learning to rest more comfortably in not knowing the outcomes and timelines, you will begin to discover something quietly reassuring:

That the ambiguity humanity has tried to avoid at all cost is actually the very space in which life is continuously creating itself.

Which means, beloved one, that when you feel lost in the wobble of ambiguity — wondering what comes next, urgently wanting to know — you are not lost at all.

You are simply standing where the life that you are is still writing your story — where the power of life resides. 

And so we see you standing in just such a place at this time, waving your magic wand about like a child who knows the power of make-believe — but one who is also a Merlin, wise with the secrets of the gradually unfolding and ever continuing Life.

April 23, 2026

Something very serendipitous happened, it was great fun!  When ending my contemplation and meditation time this morning, I had the thought that I felt a little boring lately.  I’d had a some weeks of days that were very similarly from one to the next.  I felt my life could use a little dash of spice.  So I said aloud — to the life I am, and to those who walk in spirit with me —  “Send something serendipitous my way, let’s have a bit of fun!”

Then I got up from my meditation chair and bumped right into a small stool I’d placed a pile of papers on.  The stool tipped over and the pile spilled out across the floor.  So I plunked down on the stool, leaned out and gathered up.  Standing, I noticed the scrap of paper now on top of the pile.  It was a message about serendipity. I kid you not!

It was in my handwriting but I’m not sure of the source.  It could be a message I got from Spirit I received at some point long ago — this pile was from a box I’d just opened from deep storage.  Or it could be from a wisdom card deck, or something I read somewhere and jotted down.  No date or source was on the note.

That morning I’d also been thinking about what to write here… well, we couldn’t have a better message!  And I couldn’t have a nicer dash of spice for my day.  Enjoy our serendipitous message about serendipity. 

Serendipity — Opportunity allied with readiness; the awareness of synchronicity; luck and good fortune appearing as signs and symbols; a magical alignment of events.

You’ve stepped into alignment with the greater good, where your dreams and the collective dream resonate in exquisite harmony.  Now is the time for luck and preparation to meet and create miracles you could never have planned all by yourself.  

Keep in mind that you are a channel for providence right now as a higher energy uses you as a force on behalf of the whole world.  Your fortune becomes everyone’s fortune.  Everything you bring into being now will leave a wondrous legacy for others in the future.  Your service to the world is being supported at this time.  Expect the unexpected.  And smile, for Spirit loves you very much.  

Spirit has a plan, and that plan is to place you in front of the right person at the right time.  You have met or are about to meet someone vitally important to your journey, Someone Spirit wants to bring into your life.  Only Divine Forces can bring about this meeting – it is out of your hands.  Pay attention to the signs Spirit presents.

You are in the right place at the right time.  Be grateful, for the Stars are aligned in your favor and fortune is smiling on you.  The choices you have made in the past have prepared you for the opportunities before you. 

Allow your excitement to grow and grow in anticipation of the serendipity of Spirit.  Be certain you will recognize them each in their moment.  Feel blessed and lucky in what comes forward.  Claim the perks along your path, the boons intended and reap the many rewards of your journey to now.   

Let your heart overflow in gratitude and wonder at what is now fulfilling in ways both large and small in any minute of every day, day by day, month by month, season to season. Limitless blessings are already yours.  Limitless blessings await you.  

Expect this on waking, acknowledge it at mid-day and close your eyes at night in the certainty and fulfillment of what is so.

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Isn’t this message itself just the very blessed serendipity it refers too?!  What a treat! Thank you, beloved life I Am,
💞 Mayet