E156: Mind Is Not the Enemy—What’s Stored In It Is
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The mind becomes a problem when it is filled with stored emotional impressions (samskaras) that we resisted or clung to, shaping our preferences, beliefs, and ego. These inner patterns distort reality, create suffering, and cause us to constantly judge life based on past experiences. True liberation comes not from controlling the mind but from understanding these roots. We can then learn to let go of the stored disturbances and allow life to unfold freely without resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | Dragrative, Jamestrus. |
| 0:04.0 | It's common in spiritual teachings and with spiritual teachers |
| 0:11.0 | to recognize that the mind is the problem. |
| 0:16.0 | That's helpful. |
| 0:19.0 | At least you know where the problem is. |
| 0:21.6 | It doesn't solve the problem. |
| 0:24.6 | So some people teach to quiet the mind. |
| 0:29.6 | Meditation, some many different forms of meditation, are about quiet in a mind. |
| 0:36.6 | People take long periods of time, retreats, and some baticals to try and quiet the mind. |
| 0:45.3 | The trouble is when they come back to their job, to their family, to finances, to issues. |
| 0:55.0 | It doesn't take all that long for the thing to start talking again, does it? |
| 1:01.0 | Let's be honest. |
| 1:03.0 | It's nice to get the reprieve from a troubled mind, but somehow the interactions with life, the world, people places, things, money, |
| 1:15.9 | everything, relationships, just seemed to stir it up a little bit. Anybody with me? Have you |
| 1:22.2 | noticed? So I always say, people sometimes say to me, why don't you teach meditation? |
| 1:28.0 | Everybody teaches meditation, it's wonderful. |
| 1:30.0 | There's so many techniques. |
| 1:31.5 | Find something that works for you. |
| 1:33.5 | I want to teach what's doing you're not meditating. |
| 1:36.5 | That's what I've learned over all my years. |
| 1:39.5 | Doesn't mean you don't meditate. |
| 1:41.5 | It means a lot of time you're not meditating. |
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