E108: Understanding the Personal Mind and the Path to Liberation

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The personal mind is a self-created mental construct formed by holding on to past experiences we have tagged with like and dislike. Whatever we experience passes through this layer of mind, which has the effect of distorting our perception and causing suffering. Liberation requires recognizing that you are the awareness noticing these thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. You can then learn to stop storing new personalized impressions while allowing old ones to pass. In this freedom, you can live in harmony with reality, guided by clarity and peace rather than personal preferences.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by Sounds True in partnership with Shanti Publications.
0:22.5	For more information about Michael Singer's work, access to all prior episodes, and information
0:28.7	about upcoming releases, we invite you to join us at Michael Singer Podcast.com. I'm sorry, Goda, Shy masters.
1:01.0	People say somehow I always end up talking about mine.
1:07.0	Let's talk about mine.
1:10.0	You can't talk about something when you're too close.
1:14.6	If a eight-cylinder engine is running, you can't see the pistons, you can't see these camshaft.
1:21.6	You can't see anything.
1:22.6	It's just all a blur.
1:23.6	You're looking at this overall mess.
1:26.6	In order to understand what I mean by mind,
1:30.3	when I talk about mind, you have to at least be able to get to the edges where there's not mind.
1:39.3	Maybe meditation helps, maybe spiritual experiences helps. Many things can help you at least momentarily
1:49.8	see the edges of what your mind is. Otherwise, you will not see it. You think you see it. You don't see it.
1:58.5	Because it is your mind talking about the mind that is your mind
2:02.2	judging the mind is your mind is your mind with its desires and its hopes and its dreams oh this
2:07.5	dream's not bad but that one's good i've got myself together it's mine okay so basically you come down
2:13.4	to what do the edges of mind look like it's still you may never have reached
2:21.6	that state yet you will at some point it will happen don't crave it because that's mine
2:28.2	don't try to achieve it because that's mind just showing how pervasive mind is. So at the edges, it's silent.
2:37.7	What's silent?
2:38.7	Mind.
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