E70: Beyond the Self-Concept: Returning to Spiritual Truth

Michael Singer Podcast

Michael Singer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Have you noticed that you live with a personal mind that is shaped by your past experiences? In that mind, you develop a self-concept of how life should be. This ego-mind leads to tremendous suffering and distorted views of truth. True spirituality involves recognizing that you are not your thoughts or experiences, but the consciousness that observes them. By ceasing to identify with your ego and facing reality without resistance, you can awaken to a deeper truth and experience lasting peace and fulfillment.

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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. Charger-death
0:58.8	Chimasters
0:59.4	There's certain truths
1:03.2	which are just absolute
1:05.8	as a very nice truth
1:08.9	people can't mess with them. Your life should be about those
1:17.2	truths. If your life is not about absolute truth, it's about relative truth. And
1:25.2	everybody has a relative truth. What is relative truth? Well, it depends.
1:30.3	If you're very sincere and you would like to know truth, you take your experiences, you
1:37.3	be honest about them, and you try to put together what looks like the truth. The trouble
1:42.3	is everybody's doing that. I understand that.
1:46.1	Like, you literally think that people are purposely lying when they're trying to tell them the
1:50.0	truth based on what they've seen, based on their experiences. I showed the most foundational
1:55.8	things that I have found in life is a statement that psychology says, man is the sum of his learned experiences.
2:04.5	You can't just gloss over that. Why? Because that's the truth. It's not the truth that you are the
2:10.6	summary learned experiences. The truth is that your mind and your heart are programmed by the
2:16.6	summary learned experiences.
2:18.7	You get turned on or turned off based on your past experiences.
2:23.4	You don't know if you've never seen it before, you don't know anything about it, and
2:26.8	neither turns you on or turns you off.
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