E111: The Mind Isn’t the Problem—It’s That You are Listening to It
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The deep spiritual teachings emphasize that the real problem is not the mind itself but our attachment to it and the impressions we’ve stored inside that distort our experience of life. We mistakenly look outward for solutions to this problem, when the real work is to release the inner disturbances that block the natural flow of energy and cause suffering. Spiritual liberation is found by turning inward, observing the mind, letting go of stored pain, and returning to the joyful, transcendent nature of consciousness itself.
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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 |
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| 1:00.0 | The most real and important conversation that we can have about the mind is as follows the problem is not your mind |
| 1:16.6 | the problem is that you're listening to it that's the truth you don't realize that |
| 1:24.6 | you get very very far along on the path. |
| 1:28.3 | When it starts, it doesn't seem as though the problem is your mind. |
| 1:32.3 | It seems as the problem is the world. |
| 1:35.3 | People, what they say, what they do, how they treat you, everything. |
| 1:40.3 | That's the problem. Do you understand that? |
| 1:43.3 | That's where most of you are. |
| 1:45.9 | No, you're not. |
| 1:46.7 | You wouldn't have made it here yet. |
| 1:47.9 | If that's what you think, you're out there doing something. |
| 1:50.6 | You have wasting your time being in here. |
| 1:52.8 | Because if the problem is outside, you have some fixing to do. |
| 1:56.9 | You have some controlling to do. |
| 1:59.0 | And that's where most people are. |
| 2:02.7 | They have not looked inside. |
| 2:05.3 | We'll talk about why. |
| 2:07.0 | And because they don't look inside, but the inside is a mess. |
| 2:10.1 | But they don't pay attention to that. |
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