E52: The Mind Is Not the Problem: Identifying with It Is

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Spirituality is about recognizing that you are a conscious being, separate from your thoughts, emotions, and external experiences. You suffer because you identify with the past experiences that have molded your preferences and desires. True spiritual awakening occurs when your consciousness ceases to be distracted by the ego, permitting thoughts and emotions to pass through without clinging to them. This allows the shift inward to the infinite consciousness that lies beyond personal identity.

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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 spiritual path in terms of basic understanding is very, very simple.
1:10.0	You are conscious, obviously.
1:14.1	You're aware of things.
1:15.6	Consciousness and awareness mean the same thing.
1:18.6	You are aware, obviously.
1:21.5	You're aware of thoughts.
1:22.8	You're of emotions.
1:24.4	You're aware you have a body.
1:26.1	You're aware that there is a world coming through your senses.
1:29.3	Fine. That's just called reality. So what's the problem?
1:35.3	Well, the mind can be a problem. Why? For the same reason, if you eat food, it's really not good for you.
1:49.2	As you get stomach aches, you get indigestion, it's not so much fun. Your mind is exactly the same.
1:58.5	If you fill your mind with negative thoughts, you fill your mind with problems that
2:06.6	you've had in the past, with situations you didn't like, with fears about the future, if you
2:12.6	fill your mind with garbage, it's going to be a garbagey mind. It's just as simple. Anything you fill
2:20.8	with garbage is going to be not peaceful, not loving. It's going to express what you put into it.
2:29.3	The mind is not at fault, no more than your computer is at fault. If you put data and programs and garbage into it, it's going to spit that back up because
2:39.0	you told it to.
2:40.0	You have told your mind to be a problem.
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