E13: The Mind: Prison or Liberator?

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The mind can act as either a prison or a liberator, depending on how we use it. By holding on to uncomfortable past experiences, we trap ourselves in suffering. Expanding our thoughts beyond ourselves allows us to break free of the prison of mind. Through this process, we can liberate our consciousness, experience peace, and ultimately achieve enlightenment.

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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. Jigrativ. Jamesters? Mind is a very, very, very fascinating thing. Very, very few people understand mind. If mind studies mind, it only knows about mind.
1:16.7	If you get too close to something, you can't see it. Only great masters who have transcended
1:23.3	mind, which we can talk about what that means, are able to look at it as what it is.
1:29.8	Mind is a field of energy in which thoughts can be created.
1:35.5	They don't have to be created.
1:37.6	The field can be completely still.
1:40.2	The Buddhists speak of the void, the emptiness.
1:43.6	And they speak of it like great ones speak about God.
1:47.0	Even Zen doesn't believe in God, but they believe in the void and the emptiness,
1:53.0	which is the same as God.
1:55.0	So, mind can be still.
1:59.0	If you meditate deeply, there's times where the mind has become still.
2:04.4	And it's very, very beautiful.
2:06.2	You come back and you're changed.
2:07.8	If you go deep enough, you're changed for life.
2:09.9	You could go into total still mind and beyond for seconds and never be the same when you come back.
2:17.6	Because you realized I'm not my mind. Because you realized, I'm not my mind.
2:20.3	You didn't think I'm not my mind.
2:22.0	You're not your mind.
2:23.6	It's just you can go stand by the ocean and watch it and study it
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