Michael Singer Podcast

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E101: Transform Daily Life into Your Deepest Spiritual Practice
Meditation alone cannot bring lasting peace into this world. This is because we return from meditation to the same deeply seated, unresolved disturbances weve been storing in the mind. True liberatio
E100: You Are Not What Happened: You Are Who Experienced It
We misperceive life and spirituality by fixating on tiny fleeting experiences and projecting personal meaning onto them. We build our entire self-concept and emotional world out of a narrow slice of r
E99: Why Spiritual Experiences Are Not Enough
Spiritual liberation is not about attaining extraordinary experiences; it is about releasing the internal blockages that keep us from a permanent state of well-being. The cause of suffering is not lif
E98: The Guru Within: Returning to Consciousness
True spiritual masters are not mystical icons, they are beings who have transcended the distractions of mind and emotion to rest in the constant ecstasy of pure consciousness (Sat Chit Ananda). This i
E97: Spirituality Is Awareness—Not Beliefs or Concepts
Spirituality is about realizing that all experiences, thoughts, and emotions are just objects that consciousness is aware of. It is awareness that gives meaning to the object, but we get fixated on th
E96: Untethering Consciousness: The Path Back to Your True Self
All living beings share the same divine consciousness, but the sophistication of the human body, mind, and heart allows us to expand our consciousness into very broad frames of reference. Unfortunatel
E95: Relax, Release, and Rise: The Real Work of Spiritual Growth
Deep spiritual growth is not about collecting more techniques but about releasing the inner disturbances we have stored from our past. These suppressed energiescalled samskarasremain inside, continu
E94: Spiritual Freedom Is Simpler than You Think
Life is fundamentally simplewere sitting on a tiny planet spinning through infinite space for a few years, and thats it. We make it complicated by deciding how everything must be for us to be okay.
E93: The Practice of Unconditional Openness
When youre open, life feels beautiful and joyful; when you're closed, everything seems wrong. This leaves you with two choices: find things that open you or find out how not to close. The first leads
E92: Releasing the Meaningless Moments That Create the Personal Mind
The central spiritual teaching is that we are not the mind but the awareness behind it. The personal mind, composed of impressions from past experiences, creates a false sense of self (ego) that cause