E90: How to Stop Minding and Start Living
Michael Singer Podcast
Michael Singer
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
“Do you mind?” We “mind” everything, from traffic to childhood memories, and this habitual minding creates endless mental ripples that disturb our peace. Spiritual growth is not found through adding practices but through subtracting resistance, through relaxing and letting go of what disturbs us. Every moment becomes an opportunity to free ourselves by choosing not to mind, and over time this unlocks profound freedom and transformation.
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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. Jackard of Ziamester's. |
| 1:02.0 | The word mind is normally used as a noun, the mind. |
| 1:09.4 | Back in the early 70s, when people started coming out here, |
| 1:13.7 | I kiddingly started a club. |
| 1:16.2 | If you wanted to hang out here, |
| 1:18.2 | you had to join the I Don't Mind Club. |
| 1:21.3 | That's mind as a verb. |
| 1:23.6 | Would you mind if I borrow your car? |
| 1:26.4 | Would you mind if I borrow your car? Would you mind if I borrow your wife? |
| 1:30.6 | I like mind as a verb. |
| 1:32.9 | Kind of neat. |
| 1:33.4 | We don't always use it that way. |
| 1:35.3 | What does it mean to mind? |
| 1:39.1 | It means what I just said. |
| 1:41.2 | If I come up to you and mention a word, |
| 1:47.3 | your mind goes like a leaf drops into a still lake. The mind starts going, doesn't it? About everything until there's wavelets |
| 1:53.8 | on top of waveless, on top of wavelets, until you don't know what it's like to not have |
| 1:58.0 | those wavelengths. You are always minding. It's always saying |
| 2:03.6 | something. That is the verb use of the word mind. You are minding. You don't need anything, a leaf from |
| 2:11.4 | outside to drop into your lake. It does just find by itself. In fact, each one of the ripples, you mind the ripples. |
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