E116: Doing the Best You Can: The Path to Liberation

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Doing the best you can every moment with what’s in front of you is the entire path to liberation. Outcomes don’t define you; the inner growth you earn by showing up wholeheartedly does. Life is your teacher; just do your very best and what comes back are your lessons, not your punishments or rewards. Let go of goal-orientation and approval-seeking. Keep welcoming life’s experiences, and you’ll trade neurosis and control for openness, energy, and joy.

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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. Jaggerty, Giamastres.
1:00.0	There are some aspects of the spiritual path that seem bright and mundane, but they end up being the entire path,
1:13.6	from totally lost to totally liberator.
1:16.6	So I want to talk about the biggest one of those.
1:19.6	And believe it or not,
1:21.6	there are those that say the entire Bhagavā Gita is about this.
1:26.6	All of its chapters, all its different phases, the
1:30.4	own conversation between Krishna and Arjuna. And that is doing the best that you can.
1:37.5	Everybody wants to do the best they can. Everybody tells you to do the best you can. But what
1:41.2	is that really mean? So start this way. If you're playing a sport, then it
1:48.0	has to be a professional sport. You're just having fun with your friends playing volleyball, football,
1:52.8	basketball, whatever. How much fun is it if you're playing against somebody who doesn't care?
1:59.7	How you like doing that? They couldn't care less. If you made a shot,
2:04.5	they made a shot, they're just wasting time. That's not doing the best that you can. And what if you
2:12.3	argue? Well, I understand there was a field out here, just an open field. We have a lot of land out here, an open field.
2:20.8	And you took some white lines, and you took 100 yards, and you drew this box, 50 by 100, whatever it is,
2:28.6	and you drew these lines on it every 10 yards.
2:31.3	And you took a ball, it was kind of weird shaped egg type shaped and you decided what do we do
2:37.7	with it okay i got an idea let's try to move it every 10 yards and you know we can just carry it
2:45.7	no what if the other guys try to stop you why just for fun why would. Why would they try to stop you? Who cares? There's nothing happening. It's just a field in the middle of planet Earth spinning around, right? Well, if you take that attitude, I don't want you on my team. Well, what if I take the attitude? If I don't win, they're going to be some serious problems around here. I don't care
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