E81: Expanding Beyond the Personal Mind
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The mind is not inherently a problem—it becomes one when used to narrowly define reality based on our extremely limited personal experiences. This limited frame of reference leads to suffering, judgment, and a compulsive need to control life to match our preferences. Spiritual freedom comes from recognizing the vastness of existence, surrendering the egoic mind, and appreciating the miraculous nature of reality as it is.
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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. Chi Grative, Jiamasters. |
| 1:02.2 | We talk a lot about mind. |
| 1:05.0 | Let's take a step back. |
| 1:07.3 | On the spiritual path, which is your life, mind can be the greatest gift or the greatest curse. |
| 1:16.9 | And that's the truth. |
| 1:18.8 | So if that mind is not the problem, mind is an infinite, capable device that you have access to, that can do anything. |
| 1:27.1 | Depending on what you're doing with them. |
| 1:29.2 | If what you do with your mind is become very little, what does that mean? |
| 1:35.8 | Your frame of reference is what determines how emotional, problematic you are. |
| 1:43.0 | I did, as you know, my most mostly know, I did like 30 years of prison |
| 1:46.3 | work, Maximum Curry prison, and they're locked in a cell, very small cell. |
| 1:53.2 | Someone with multiple people, some of them in solitude, no matter. We had a guy, he used to |
| 1:58.5 | fight a lot, his beautiful soul soul But he used to fight a lot |
| 2:01.5 | Not be able to come in a class |
| 2:02.6 | So I was ask him |
| 2:04.0 | What happened |
| 2:05.3 | And one time he told me |
| 2:06.9 | Somebody moved my comb |
| 2:08.1 | Now most of you don't know |
| 2:11.1 | Exactly where you left your comb |
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