E123: How Clinging Creates Ego and Suffering
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Human beings walk around with a fishbowl over their head full of thoughts about themselves. Instead of naturally processing outside experiences as they come in, we trap the ones we can’t handle inside this bowl. These stored impressions distort our perception and generate endless preferences about what should or shouldn’t be happening. True spirituality is about letting each experience pass through fully processed—whether joyful or painful—without clinging. When no longer distracted by these stored impressions, one enters a state of openness, equanimity, and ecstatic unity with all of creation.
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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. Jaguard of Dymasters, |
| 1:00.0 | In order to actually know what it's like to be a human being, |
| 1:05.0 | here's an analogy. |
| 1:08.0 | I've seen it years ago, and I play with it a lot. |
| 1:11.6 | Take a fishbow, an aquarium bowl, and put it over your head. |
| 1:17.6 | And then realize inside that bowl are your thoughts. |
| 1:23.6 | That's so hard to imagine, because that's how it is, right? |
| 1:28.3 | And they're swimming around, they hit each other and they bump and sometimes they're |
| 1:33.3 | nice and sometimes they're not and they go down and they go over and they're all swimming around |
| 1:36.3 | inside that bowl. |
| 1:37.3 | Where do the thoughts come from? |
| 1:40.3 | Where do the thoughts come from? |
| 1:42.3 | All right? |
| 1:46.4 | Events happen outside the bowl. |
| 1:52.5 | They come in and they make impressions inside the ball. |
| 1:54.7 | That's how the world works. |
| 1:57.5 | The outside comes in. |
| 1:58.9 | That's why you have senses. |
| 2:02.1 | You're gifted with a tremendous gift. |
| 2:11.3 | Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell. If you didn't have those, you in there, way inside the bowl, |
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