Michael Singer Podcast E70: Beyond the Self-Concept: Returning to Spiritual Truth
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Apr 21, 2025 Explore how your personal mind shapes your self-concept and distorts your view of reality. Discover the differences between the personal and impersonal minds, and how your experiences mold perceptions and emotions. Delve into the relationship between consciousness and ego, emphasizing the need to acknowledge all emotions for deeper self-awareness. Uncover the journey to your true self by letting go of ego attachments to reach spiritual fulfillment. Experience how facing reality without resistance leads to lasting peace.
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Personal Mind Programs Preferences
- Your personal mind is programmed by the sum of your learned experiences, shaping your likes and dislikes.
- This personal mind is a small subset of the infinite mind field that creates thoughts like waves in an ocean.
Stored Experiences Cause Suffering
- The world has yin and yang, nice and not nice; that is reality, not the problem.
- The problem is that you stored every disturbing experience inside you, causing ongoing suffering.
Bad Food Analogy for Memory
- Example: a bad food experience makes you avoid that food forever, like storing bad experiences.
- We do this with many unpleasant memories, keeping them alive inside us unnecessarily.