E61: The Nature of Suffering: How to Let Go and Find Peace

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Pain is a physical sensation, while suffering is a psychological struggle created by resisting reality and holding onto past experiences. By learning to relax and allow emotions to pass through without attachment, you can reduce suffering and open yourself to joy and inner peace. True freedom comes from learning to let go of preferences and expectations and embracing life as it unfolds rather than always resisting it. Learning to first accept reality and then working to raise it leads to a state of inner peace, fulfillment, and Self-Realization.

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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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1:02.2	It's amazing how often the opposites come around and touch each other.
1:10.1	So for example, we always talk about joy, ecstasy, love.
1:16.6	Let's talk about pain and suffering.
1:20.6	If you're going to find out how close they touch each other in the back.
1:24.6	First of all, the proper use of the word pain
1:29.6	and the proper use of the suffering is as follows.
1:32.6	Pain is a physiological event of the body sensors,
1:39.4	usually tactile, but it can be otherwise,
1:42.2	experiencing something that is sending very, very, very strong,
1:47.0	difficult vibrations through the nervous system and it creates pain.
1:53.0	Okay, that's pain.
1:55.0	What is suffering?
1:57.0	Suffering is a psychological event, not a physiological event.
2:01.6	We use them interchangeably, but they're not.
2:03.6	I don't know about anybody else, but from a spiritual point of view, they're quite different.
2:08.6	So, what suffering is, is an internal experience, mind and emotions,
2:14.6	those are psychological things, not physiological things.
2:18.9	Suffering is generated when what you want inside is not happening outside,
2:26.5	or what you don't want inside is happening outside.
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