From Distraction to Liberation | The Michael Singer Podcast

welcome to the Michael Singer podcast presented by sounds true in partnership with Shanti Publications for more information about Michael singer's work access to all prior episodes and information about upcoming releases we invite you to join us at Michael Singer podcast.com [Music] Dr Dr Masters if you're very sincere in your spiritual growth you eventually realize all the techniques all the teachings are really about are you willing to diminish and let go of your ego which is a very very very serious task it's no joke you can think about it all you want and it's your ego

thinking about it but seriously while there's ego and we'll talk what ego is and talk about diminishing it and why and how etc etc but while there's ego your consciousness will be distracted by it spirituality is about returning to the source of Consciousness the problem is consciousness is aware of things and it can get distracted by something that is distracting that's all you hear a loud noise your Consciousness is going over there you see somebody you love your conscience is going over there you somebody you dislike tremendously your conscience is going over there just gets

distracted by things that you care about and you care about things that you like and you care about things that you don't like probably you care about things you don't like more than you care about things that you like so if you like something your Consciousness is drawn to it it's a distracted if you see a picture that you like there's 15 pictures laid out in front of you only one of them do you know the person I'm telling you your conscience is going right there not because you know them because there's this distraction that

that thing stands out here I'll I'll use an example you understand more you're walking outside and all of a sudden you hear a Rattle and there's a rattlesnake in front of you hopefully 10 feet away I hear that's a safe distance but I don't think any distance is safe but in any event there's a rattlesnake in front of you guess what there's also trees grass clouds wind heat there's lots of things in front of you guess what you see they're out snake they not all equal are they listen to me some things stand out more

than others no they don't they're all just colors and shapes and things there they are but because your mind as focus on something more than something else right your Consciousness gets drawn there so what's the importance of that it's being drawn away from the seed of consciousness there the essence of the path that's all of it in one sense God your God self which is God is the seat of Consciousness God is universal Consciousness omnipresent meaning what Universal everywhere is omnipotent the source of all forces the source of all power not that God can do

anything God is everything so it's omn present it's the cause of all of creation and it's aware of that it it's omniscient it knows that it knows that it knows so there's just this tremendous infinite Eternal field of Consciousness that's what everything Springs from guess what you're it Consciousness is consciousness if I go to the ocean and I take a cup and I dip it into the ocean but don't pull it out what's the cup full of the ocean the ocean is not a spot it's not this it's a whole field and it's equal everywhere

isn't it every spot of the ocean is the ocean okay Consciousness is consciousness there's no high Consciousness low Consciousness better Consciousness God Consciousness personal Consciousness there's just Consciousness what is that that which is aware I ask you a question are you aware just answer me are you aware how do you know because I'm aware that I'm aware that may sound silly to you those words I'm aware that I'm aware what did God say his name was when Moses asked him with the burning bush I am that I am I am aware that I am aware

I am that which is I am the I am so that's who you are you are in there being aware awareness is a quality that's incomprehensible nothing else is aware you're aware of 100 billion trillion things she can be it's the same awareness isn't it the exact same awareness is aware of what you like and aware what you don't like aware of your you look in the mirror you see yourself when you're young look in the mirror you see yourself when you're old it's the same Consciousness seeing both it did not get old it did

not get young it's not good it's not bad it's not up it's not down you want to see down look down who look down Consciousness want see up look up who looked up Consciousness Consciousness is the SE sear the awareness the essence of everything without Consciousness all right let's say everyone in the room just disappeared right now would you know that yeah how do you know because I'm aware they all pop back did you see they came back how do you know because you're aware now I'm going to turn off your awareness what's going on

you can be aware of tons of things but if I turn off awareness there ain't nothing mayor Baba said beautifully Great Master he said everything in the whole universe all of form all of creation is zeros they're just zeros all of them are zeros Consciousness is the number one put the one to the left of all the zeros and all of a sudden everything has meaning what's that one do just put that one in front of all the zeros it becomes hundreds zlion billion trillion quillion and take the one away zero Consciousness is the meaning

of everything if you were not conscious why are we having a discussion Now problem is our a problem it's part of reality Consciousness does not look on everything equally you don't see everything equally you see men you see woman you see up you see down you see cold you see hot you see snake you see grass you differentiate the zeros the truth is we might as well get it over with every single thing you've ever experienced is the same every single thing that ever came in through your eyes your ears your nose your touch is

exactly the same how can you say that I'm not saying it physics is I have no right to say it what do I know I'm not a scientist we need to ask the scientist what's out there you know to tell you nothing now they'll tell you nothing I used to tell you it's atoms there's a bunch of atoms out there okay guess what the atoms aren't all the same we have a periodic table what there 108 or whatever it is okay 98 natural elements or something right those are the types of atoms out there so

they're not all the same okay but what are the atoms made of electron Neutron or protons are they all the same every single electron is the same every single Neutron is the same every single proton is the same exactly the same so now we know what's out there electron neutrons or protons gee is that what it looks like to you do understand that science has told you this was back in the late 1800s they figured electron Neutron and protons right we find out they were wrong but anyways that's what they said was out there so

that's what's out there the fact that you put them together and see people and see dogs and cats and clouds and no there's just electron Neutron protons the way I explain it to you so you finally get it is do you have a flat screen TV everybody's got a flat screen TV get up real close when you're watching a movie so close close just it's getting harder because they have 4K stuff and so on right just get up real close what do you see dots called pixels that's what's really there no there's a movie no

there's not there's just dots RGB red green blue moving around the dots are moving around that's what's really there the fact that you see a movie has a lot to do with your mind has a lot to do with your senses has a lot to do what did Einstein say your senses are the problem they're lying to you about what's out there you have to look past your senses that's why we develop all these machines all these devices right now they can actually isolate electron neutrons and protons but it takes a 12m long cyclotron accelerator

out CERN underground to be able to bombard the atoms together so they break up into electron neutr protons and they have these receptors that can can see that stuff for a billion of a second comes out and it crashes again okay but that's what's out there what's out there is pixels we call them atoms I'll call them electron neutrons and protons there at least three red green blue and that's truth why don't you see that because your mind and your senses average that stuff out what happens when you step back from the movie it averages

all those pixels out and you start seeing form there's no form there's just elect Elon Neutron or protons okay very good that's reality I also finish it CU I said it was not there are not electron Neutron and protons wow but I went to school too bad they taught you wrong why we went further back further down and they found out that neutrons and protons are made of things they're not Elemental particles forget atoms those are just combination electron neutrons and protons interacting together electron neutrons and protons are made of sub atomic particles right but

you get down to what they call quantum physics and you don't need to understand the DAR thing I just want you to understand what they found you have to do the math that was so complicated but what did they find they found that there are not pixels there are not particles there's Fields Fields like a field of light there's a field underlying those those pixels when you stare at the screen are light emanator and it's all light it's photons so they underneath the electron neutrons and protons there are subatomic um I don't want to use

word particles going to find out they're not particles but there's quirks leptons and bosons and that's what they find out that's the whole the standard model of physics that exists now and then they get put together so two up quirks and a down Quirk make a proton and two downs and and an up make a neutron and you don't need to know that the point is what you're looking at is a lie is is your senses are lying to you there not what's out there then they went further and now they understand that there are

not particles that's not what's down there what down there are just Fields fields that get agitated and then they start to make waves like an ocean a wave or or drop a leaf in a lake lake used to be still now it makes waves those wavelets are what appear to have the properties of a particle there are no particles they're just waves the yogi said it was all made of light turns out they were right science is all the way down that level there are no particles they're just waves and the waves behave as particles

at certain times they're properties and when we look at them they seem like particles they're really just wavelets and if you ask Quantum physicist fine what is the Quantum field what is it that's waving they will look at you and say we have no idea go to Yogi a deep meditator an enlightened being who God realized and asked what is the Quantum field made of it tell you Consciousness look how close physics is to spirituality pretty neat is it okay so God pure Consciousness and it vibrated in yoga they say the oh was the original

vibration that's just a vibration on the field of Consciousness and it created what's called a vitty a little wavelet and everything's made out of that now we would sit there say how can everything be made out of a little waver of Consciousness look how close physics has gotten they've told you everything's made out of agitation of a field right not a particle nothing there no particle just a field and by the way physics will tell you that the quantum field is omnipresent first time I read that it was in but writing from NASA I was

reading some stuff on the web and it said the quanum field is omnipresent the only time I heard the word omnipresent used was for God omnipresent omnificent omniscient well guess what if the quantum field is omnipresent and all so-called particles came out of it it made everything okay it's omnipotent and if it's conscious now you have what you call God okay so that's what's going on out there so why don't I see that and if I'm pure Consciousness and you are you're pure Consciousness looking at something you're looking here you're looking at the TV and

seeing a movie there not a movie Underneath It there's just pure light you're the light you are that light Consciousness is all the same there's no once you get back to Pure Consciousness to its source you have merged with God that's what the great Masters told you they did when they went far enough back and stopped looking at their thoughts and stop looking at their body and stop looking at the senses what was coming through senses and stop looking at their emotions we talk about what that means and how one does such a thing and

whether they want to all right then the looker is what left if you're not looking at something then you're just there patang talks about that Consciousness is contemplating Consciousness and then they fell back the drop of Consciousness fell back into the ocean and merged that's what yoga means merger Union what do Christ say my father and I are one that is the truth and what did he say to you as I sit at the Throne of my father other words as my Consciousness sits within God Consciousness so you shall sit by my throne and these

things which I do you should do these and even greater things you are God descended you are the same thing as Christ and Buddha well why don't I experience that because you're busy being you you're busy being conscious of your thoughts your emotions and what's coming through your senses your Consciousness is distracted away from the seed of Consciousness that's why I started okay well what does that mean we were talking about ego now that it's just distracted that by the way is the fall from the garden the garden is you're sitting in the Ecstasy of

the Divine Consciousness form still exists you can look at it you don't have to get lost in it you don't have to stare at it it's going by if you watch a movie and something happens in the movie that you either really really really like or you really really really don't like guess what you're not going to watch the rest of the movie you're lost in what you liked I hope it comes back oh she's so beautiful here again or oh my God it was so scary I don't know if I watch the movie anymore

you're busy lost in what you saw your conscience got distracted by some event that happened out there they weren't all equal everything the movie wasn't equal some things were the rattlesnake and now your Consciousness is focused on that it's fixated on that if it gets totally fixated on that you didn't watch the rest of the movie you have to go back and Rewind have you ever sat there reading a book and realized you turned five pages and did not read one single word that's on that book and you have to go back and turn the

pages back why you were distracted by your thoughts you were distracted by your emotions can you get distracted by your thoughts can you get distracted by your emotions I'm telling you you are always distracted by your thoughts and always distracted by your emotions you just know the ones that distracted you from being distracted you're sitting there thinking I don't know do blah blah blah and then something happened oh I got distracted by the noise you are already totally distracted I'm telling you what it's like to be human what is a human the Divine Consciousness distracted

by a particular set of thoughts a particular set of emotions and a particular set of senses that are taking in how much of the universe do you take in at any given moment take a look what you're taking in what your senses pick up nothing I like when people say I don't want to miss anything you are missing everything every single moment of your life you were missing 999999999999999999 and that's just on Earth percent of what's going on right or wrong it's so limited it's ridiculous and what is happening is these moment I I'll talk

about where eego comes from where it all comes from these moments are happening and your senses are picking them up and your senses are very very very limited but they're the only thing you pick up you're not experiencing all the other moments that you're not experiencing you're not conscious of them because they're not coming into your senses truth is let's get something straight you are conscious of them an enlightened Master is one Christ is one with the universe is conscious of all things simultaneously you are in God Consciousness why don't I experience that because you're

very interested in a very small part of the whole what part me I me mine I interested in me aren't you interested in you no I'm interested in my children there they are my I'm interested in where my husband is I'm interested where my wife is you check out how often you use word I me mine that's what you're interested in why because what happened is your senses received a very small amount of the universe extremely small it came in your conscious experienced that some of the things that came in I've told you this before

I'm going tell it again some of the things that came in had a vibration that was pleasant vibrations the electromagnetic spect we think it runs from radio waves to what ultraviolet it goes way past that those are just what our instruments can pick up they didn't know anything about ultraviolet or infrared before so they said it ran from here to here small little Spectrum then they made an instrument they picked up radio picked up this picked up that and then they expanded the definition of electromagnetic spectrum well were they going to suay get instruments that

pick up your thoughts don't you doubt that they will they're just higher and higher vibrations of energy that are subtler and subtler but they're there how do I know they're there do you have thoughts how do you know how do you know you have thoughts prove it to me show me the instrument that is picking up your thoughts so you know you have thoughts it's called mind you have an instrument you don't even think twice about it you have an instrument that picks up those high high high vibrations in the field of mind Consciousness can

experience all vibrations because it is all vibrations it is omnipresent omnicient it is God Consciousness is God Consciousness is God not this's this thing I'm conscious of no that that's a symbol remember don't make images of me one of The Commandments says that doesn't it okay don't make false images of me in other words don't try to put me into form I'm not form I'm universal infinite Consciousness Pure Energy a field of pure energy energy Consciousness so it's not that you put your conscious on something to become God conscious itself is God so basically come

down to you've had this experience a very small experience and they have vibrations every single a rattlesnake does not feel the same as a butterfly I don't mean touching it experiencing it does it somebody you see that you love that you like had nice experience before does not feel the same as somebody you strange or somebody you don't like they don't feel the same there's vibrations you know that so basically they come in your senses pick up the little bit don't forget how tiny what you pick up is like when you sit there and say

something hey I've been around no you have not what have you experienced during your life it rounded to nothing you experience statistically insignificant amount of stuff if it's true that you're only picking up this right now in this room how many other things are going on that you're not picking up of what meaning what statistically is what you're picking up compared to what there is to pick up it's it's nothing are you willing to be humble enough to finally this that's how you grow spiritually you catch on you know nothing because you only can know

what you've experienced how much do you know about what you never experienced nothing and how much of what you experienced is in relationship to everything that there is not to mention the universe oh my God 300 billion stars one Galaxy and two trillion Galaxy how much are you experiencing of all that nothing wake up and the fact you don't let my saying that we're getting toward ego because it's the truth did I tell the truth or not is it trueth that you've experienced nothing in reality okay the nothing you're experiencing comes in and it has

different vibrations because everything in creation has a vibration different vibration Alpha Omega it comes in some of the vibrations are Pleasant some of the vibrations are not pleasant they're just experiences can you experience something of that's Pleasant yes can you listen to some music that's in Harmony and experience it can you listen to some music that's in total Discord and disharmony and experience it yes or no can you experience them both the same meaning that your reaction to them your interaction with them is the same hear I'm experiencing something pleasant you're experiencing something very unpleasant

very disharmonious it's an experience it's just an experience different type of experience here's a note it's a c d e sharp they're just experiences they come in through your sense you experience them why do you like some and don't like others it's just an experience and by the way every one of you like and dislike different things so it's not like things are naturally likable and naturally unlikable oh again interesting so the stuff comes in it has different vibrations okay we're not an ego yet we just have Consciousness experiencing creation that's the garden you're sitting

in God Consciousness experiencing ecstasy because that's the nature of God Consciousness such Eternal conscious ecstasy that field that field of Eternal infinite is just it's ecstatic that's what it's experiencing the most natural experience is ecstasy total all right now things are coming in from creation and and ecstasy experiencing the dance of creation that's where a master is it's just all coming in the same there's no difference it's different but you don't experience it you experience it as the variety of Life the beauty variety is the spice of life isn't it so in other words you're

letting to come in it's passing through it's all coming in I quote you I can't help myself the gaita has a beautiful beautiful sloka concerning that Krishna says to Arjuna there are enlightened beings out there there are beings who are one with me Krishna speaking is God they're one with me they've merged with me right very great beings and Arjuna krishna's disciple says to him wow far out that's Modern Line it didn't say it like that this is 60s talk wow far out Krishna all right how will I know such a person what if I

meet them do they walk talk sit like any other man how will I recognize this enlightened being and Krishna says no you will not recognize him like that he sits he talks like any other man if you would recognize him recogniz him as such he lets goodness exist when it must it comes and when it goes It goes he lets Darkness be when it is and when it goes It goes He Walks as a Sojourner a stranger in the midst of the qualities of nature those vibrations I talked about as a stranger in the midst

of qualities of nature all right just as all the rivers and streams of the world pour into the ocean but the ocean is not overstep its bounds so the world of sense pours into the yogi and leaves him as it found him at peace Serene content equinity is yoke that's what we just talked about if you're completely open and you're clear and you're just conscious yes there is creation yes and it comes in and it feeds you every experience you have makes you a greater being do you understand that I just said if you never

experienced it you don't know anything about it if you experience it you're a knower of things so it's feeding you and you're having these experiences very good that's living in the garden like Adam and Eve had form there was trees and so it wasn't the unmanifest Brahma form was created and God was experiencing the creation and was loving it it's beautiful there was were snakes there were things what happens the fall from the garden is as follows here you are in that state now something comes in and you paid a little too much attention to

it it was either too uncomfortable for you to not be distracted by it that word distracted is so in fact they talk about original sin that's the original sin is distraction is differentiation creation is all God it's just God having created every aspect that could possibly be everything that could possibly exist all right and it's coming in and you're experiencing it but you differentiated the snake from the grass what does that mean I paid more attention to it I focused on it more so now everything's not even to me that's stood out how did it

Stand Out by putting more attention on it than I put anything else I focused on it when you focus on something you miss everything else and something else happen when you focus on something it makes a deeper impression on you than if you didn't focus on it right or wrong look you're already 99% enlightened you listen to me 99% of every single thing that ever came in through your senses went right through the clouds the trees you're driving by The Cars you drove by the people you don't know the sounds almost everything just com comes

in goes right through it do freak out doesn't do anything it just you experience it did you experience it yes you drive by White Lines every single day of your life when you're driving they freak out no they just come in you deal with them and they pass through if indeed they distract your Consciousness that means they pulled your attention to them you will remember that white line if all of a sudden it wasn't white it was daylow you go oh and then you tell everybody about it you didn't tell everybody about all the other

white lines you drove by you put your Consciousness you concentrated your Consciousness on that therefore it made an impression in your mind that stayed because you put conscience on it so now everything's not the same anymore not to you because some things you separated out from others did you separate the same things everybody else of course not everybody has different experience every single person is experiencing something different right now every single of the 8.3 billion people on the planet Earth is experiencing something different everyone in this room is experienced something different you're looking from different

angles there light hitting different things you came in with different patterns in your mind you're experience you're all experiencing a unique experience of the moment I like to ask this that moment you have just experienced whatever happen again will it ever happen again not a chance in the world you are being given a unique experience that never happened before will never happen again and you're the only one experiencing it will you please contemplate that people say I want to be special you're pretty special that moment you experienced has never happened before no one else saw

it and it will never happen again and you missed it because you're distracted by your thoughts you're distracted by things that happened before so you can't be here now that's what be here now means it's a very sacred thing from now on understand that every moment you're experiencing it's so sacred it's ridiculous that God made that moment for you must have been it never existed before will never exist again no one else saw it it's sacred it's just for you so it comes in you experience it and some of the things you get distracted by

I said does everybody have the same collection of stuff they distracted of course not because nobody else had the same moments and everybody got distracted by different things so now you have patterns in your mind the Mind holds on to those things right in fact I just didn't say it right it's not true that the Mind holds on to those things you your will Consciousness focused is the force of will you all know you have will in there can you push things away inside your mind can you cling to things you have will when you

focus Consciousness there's a power it's called shaki right in fact in yoga tradition God is called chit chakti not shaki not chit chit is consciousness shaki is energy it's one word chi conscious energy the same thing when you focus your Consciousness on something you have put energy onto it so now you held on to it does it come back up what you held on to does it come back up you never suppressed anything now you don't have anything that you held from your past that keeps coming back up periodically yes it comes back up why

because it's trying to pass through the natural state of things is these experiences happen you experience them you learn from them and you get to your next experience get to your next experience if you go there and take fifth grade math and have trouble with it but you finally pass when you get to sixth 7th 8th 9th 10th I hope you're not still thinking about fifth grade math oh I have such trouble with it but then you're not going to do good in sixth seventh or eighth so the world comes in you experience it it

passes through when it doesn't pass through it's because you use your will you focus on it and you held it you held it in your mind I said your mind held it no you held it in your mind how do I know that when it comes back up you push it back away if something happened to you in your childhood or your first marriage or yesterday when you got embarrassed it comes back up you see something reminds you of it and therefore it comes up and you push it back down it wasn't comfortable or you

cling to it if it was I like thinking about it you're the only doer in there Consciousness is everything and Consciousness is the doer so when you focus on it you send energy to it it stays within your mind fine now I got some stuff stuck in my mind how much stuff you got stuck in your mind how even do you see everything all the time not Chance in the World somebody says something sobody doesn't somebody doesn't say something that gets stuck in your mind what that they didn't say it okay so you got a

mess in there you got a collection of messes but what you have in there are not the things that were neutral the things that you just experienced they're the things that you couldn't just experience they were either the vibration was too distracting not nice or too distracting nice that's what you held in there and every single one of you have a different collection all right so now what's it like to live in there impossible why because things you didn't like stayed in there I always ask you guys what kind of smart thing is that you're

the highest species on the planet and you decided to store that which was the most disturbing things in your entire life inside so you can keep them they happened 20 30 years ago they'll never happen again the people were dead you grow up there nothing but why is that still in there there's no reason for it none and that's what I'm going to teach you how to not do that how you like that you know what spirituality is don't do that so you get distracted you hold these things in there they were either I don't

like to keep saying they're either really nice or not nice do you know the ratio between what's in there that you kept in there because it was so nice and what you kept in there because it wasn't nice and not even close and you could count on your hand how many times in your life you had an experience that was so beautiful that you couldn't let it go it just keeps coming back up it's just it changed your life it was so beautiful you can have them it's a life-changing experience but you ain't had many

of those how many experiences have you had that you didn't like that's still in there somebody said something they didn't say something you dropped something in your pants you had to go to work you said something to somebody and now you're embarrassed by what you said 20 years ago you a lot of drunk in there don't you and most of it's negative most of what you got stored in there is stuff that bothered you and therefore you pushed it away you didn't want to experience it fully right things that are nice the hug or the

beautiful sunset I told you I can't help myself all right you had experiences that you told somebody oh my God it was so beautiful I just melted it melted me and I felt like I was in the presence of God it touched me to the core of my being have you ever had an experience like that yes or no how many be honest doesn't happen very often does it but you've had them that means you let it all the way in it did touch you to the core of your being it came into your Consciousness

unaltered unfiltered it was really unbelievable blew away didn't it I mean love can do that you can hug somebody and just melt can't you you can just melt melt in their arms melt completely melt not be there where did you go you went back into the did you were you having the experience yes were you thinking about it you better not be thinking about it or you didn't go back there it's not even an emotion it's beyond an emotion it's a state of experience of total being people do drugs psychedelics to try and get to

those States I feel sorry for them why cuz you should live in that state naturally do you understand that it's your natural state so instead of trying to get there try to figure out why you're not there that's the Deep teaching so now you're sitting there and you know you can have that experience that's beautiful but you don't you push things away all the psychology is based on the fact that you're in there using your will to push stuff away that you don't like Freud was not down there trying to find out what you liked

about your mother you're trying to figure out the problems you had etc etc that's a suppression you know suppress good things you suppress bad things so that whole thing about suppression repression and fixations and and denial it's all about the fact that you're in there not liking what you experienced so now you've shoved all the stuff down there it's very hard to live in there how do you learn to live in there with all that junk coming back up and things everything reminds you of it how do you interact with people how to do anything

well you better find a way and so what you do is you build in your mind out of those things each one of the those things is a brick a building brick that thing you stored in there that's floating around you need to put them together into a package that you can live with and you build an ego you build a thought pattern it's just a thought pattern a pattern of thoughts built out of the stuff you stored in there your ego is not built out of the stuff that pass right through not one you

have an ego built out of the white lines and I always have to qualify that if you were the white line painter that sat on the back and use the you've seen them they use a little turn thing and you dripped some sometimes they drip and you dripped too many times and got fired now it comes back up the white lines come back up and if you see you're driving down the road and you see a little dribble that somebody else put there did they get fir so you now have an ego that part of

it is built around the white lines because you stored that so you laugh about the white line painter what I talk about your husband or the fact that your kid did this the fact that your neighbor does that and you said something what when you're in kindergarten what go go back to your high school reunion I do not advise it all right you go back to your high school reunion you tell me that as you see those people again where the stuff doesn't come back up this one's stle your girlfriend that one got better grades

than you you competed against them all this 23 years ago right and or that was your best friend right she's now A Serial murderer right to let her out just to come to reunion I thought good for her but you just experienc the same old stuff don't you cuz you stored it in there and then what you did with these stuff you stored God if you understand this I've done my job all right you stored this stuff you know you did and you can't live it it all just shoots up and it's all they don't

necessarily line up you met somebody she was a redhead you got along great when you were young but then you got married to one I found out what they're like all right and so emotional and this and that and now would you you like redheads or not and it goes for everything you build buil a self-concept out of this stuff that you stored and it's just a collection of thoughts that you glued together and said this is who I am I'm the person that likes brunettes cuz I don't like redhe heads and I'm the person

that likes this sort of thing and this is the kind of job I want to have right and I don't want to be doing what I'm doing I like I don't like I all based on those bricks I'm telling you you did not make one single decision in your entire life about like and dislike that you made you were programmed what does psychology say man is a sum of his learned experiences heard that a person is a sum of their learned experiences what else could their mind be it can't be the sum of their not

learned experiences right I'm the sum of what I never experienced you're a great being then you're empty Buddhist would like to meet you there Z okay but no you just some your learned experiences what else could it be but your learned experiences aren't every experience you ever had they're the ones you held on to the other ones are still back there you can bring it back it's called memory you have memory it's fine you can bring back the white lines they don't come back by themselves you didn't push them down you let the energy come

in and pass through it got stored in in your deep memory it's fine but this stuff that you resist that's a key word you resist it therefore it stays because you're holding it it's doesn't stay by itself there's no super glue in there but there's your will the will of Consciousness and it resists and builds these blocks keeps them in there that's why the mind is not pure that's why the mind is not empty empty mind when the Buddha talk about empty mind it means they're not distracted by this garbage that you stored inside they

have full access to mind to think purely to create all of it mind's a beautiful thing you cluttered your mind with the garbage that you couldn't handle and now you're distracted by the ego by that there the little thing you built in there if I watch I wouldn't do it all right you wouldn't let me if I put a stethoscope in there that could listen to your thoughts all day what I'm going to find out is that and I'm I'm GNA give a percentage I want to blow you away a very very very very very

large percentage of every thought that's created in your mind is about you what do I like what do I do about it how do I get this how you going to like me how do I get out of this relationship I can't believe them in this relationship that's all I love him I really don't like God I'm embarrassed to say anything about all my parents say my friends oh my God I can't do that I feel so guilty nobody thinks like that right those are your thoughts the thoughts are about you what I want oh

my God I like them I wonder if you pay attention to me what should I wear what kind of car should I buy that other people impressed with should I get a test or thing or should I buy a Ferrari well they use gas and it tells they use electric yeah but it's just all this garbage meaningless garbage it's about you it's all because you stored this stuff in there when the Buddhist talk about empty mind we're having a nice talk here it doesn't mean you're stupid it means it's not cluttered with that garbage there's

no ego in there therefore it can think clearly it can do math really good all right because there's nothing in there distracting from what you're doing if you try to make a Blackboard in your mind and write down 1,433 * 12 draw a line under it and multiply it out some people can do that you can't why because when you try to do it it says I can't do this that's a distraction that's a thought isn't it I can't do this why should I have to do this I'm embarrassed I should be able to do

this what are those those should help you do it don't they pay attention to the Mind what's going on in there there distractions therefore you can't be as brilliant as you are you are way more brilliant than you think you are why because you're busy with those personal thoughts of stuff you couldn't handle and then you built an ego and what the ego says is I know who likes this I no one who doesn't like this I know one who wants this I know one who doesn't want that it's called a self-concept it's not who

you are it's a concept that you built who are you the one who notices the concept you're the Consciousness the witness the indwelling Consciousness and you do have an ego that's what the ego is a collection of thoughts in your mind your mind is infinite think of Saturn think of a galaxy far far away think of a boat it can do anything the mind is so great but yours is busy thinking about you this tiny little thing on the planet 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun how much room do you take up I'm trying to

tell you you have to be willing to be nothing to be everything when you're busy thinking I want to be something that's your ego I want to be noticed by people I want to be loved I don't know why people don't treat me properly me I me mine I me mine I me mine right the Consciousness God Consciousness that which is the whole universe is lost staring at your stuff array of divine Consciousness has focused on your thoughts your emotions what's coming into your senses that's pretty small stuff compared to the universe and you want

to be spiritual you want to be enlightened you want to grow you want to do something great with your life stop it as a yogi yogan you understand I'm in here and I held this stuff in here how do you know because you keep doing it here somebody said something to you yesterday kind of friend of yours pretty much that bothered you can happen right it comes in didn't feel good okay it happened yesterday what happens when you see him today maybe you avoid seeing them have you ever walked around so that you didn't have

to see somebody that you had an interaction with that wasn't pleasant in the past see comes back up doesn't it it stays in there it's in there because you held it in there you're the only doer in there there's nobody else in there Mommy not in there daddy not in there preach not in there you're the only one in there and what you're doing is doing this and then you build it you not B enough you held this stuff then you built an ego out of it that you could live with as long as I'm

getting what I want I'm okay and just don't I told you I don't like when you talk about that I'm not comfortable when you talk about that congratulations let's manipulate everybody so they fit your garbage how can you have a nice life you can't why is there anxiety I can see why because everybody has to be the way you want them to be are they have you found out that everybody's the way you want them to be have you found out that every moment the weather all the situation in life the driver in front of

you have you found out they're all the way you want them to be no what are you doing they're not the way you want to be suffer either you suffer a little it's hot he driver come on I'm in to rush you drive the speed limit you suffer or you really suffer I can't believe you did that I never thought you'd do anything like that I thought you love me oh my God W that's some sure suffering is it okay you built out of this mess that you stored in there you built an ego and

if things are not the way that little mental concept wants them to be you are in trouble have you ever actually experience the thing break that something happened and you couldn't get up from down you couldn't even see straight anym you didn't know what was going on you could even relate to it at all and you felt completely lost like I had some solidity in here and now I don't it's like I yes or no answer me I love you to pieces but I hope you have I hope you've seen that think can break why

it's not real it's a false thing you built in there you see you're my wife these are my children that's my house this is my job these are my finances this is my plan for the future this is who I like and who I don't like this is the things that happened in the past that I just I'm not going back there know the things happen that I like I look forward to you've built all that haven't you well what happens when the husband leaves what happens when you get fired from the job what happens

when the investment you put in Bitcoins fell apart what happens it can get broken in there can it why because it's fake the ego is fake of course it can break it's only okay if everything's the way it wants it to be and it can learn to tolerate some stuff little some people have no tolerance they can freak out over anything and some people take a little more room right still yeah someone want ask yogan what is the ego you know Enlighten Master you ask enlightened Master what is the ego said the masquerading self in

other words the self you the Consciousness isn't comfortable being who you are because you stored all this stuff and you're distracted by it you've lost your sense of self so you're distracted by the garbage and you're holding it like a mask in front of you your ego this is who I am no it is not you're God descended and not even descended you're God looking at you all right I I love telling people that right it's not I have to get back to god stop leaving it's a whole another understanding the source of your conscience

sitting right there but you're staring at your ego you're staring at your stuff you can't get away from your ego what you do instead you don't try to get away from your ego you try to make everybody and everything in your world match your ego what do I want how I will get it what a waste of life you are the greatest thing that ever existed you you are so great you have no needs you're in ecstasy all the time your Oneness with all of creation come on down here and serve but you can't ego

always takes that's all it knows to do because it has to keep itself together all right spirituality is about understanding what you're up against I am the Consciousness that was not able to handle the experience of reality and so I built this mess inside my beautiful mind and you all have Beautiful Minds all of you but you built this mess in there and all your Tendencies of prejudice or liking and dislike all that stuff are based on that how do I get out can you get out can you get out can you be liberated jivan

MTA a liberated Soul can you just drop back into your seed of Oneness of conscious reality and let that stuff fall off yes yes every s single one of you if you took human birth you're capable of self-realization you're capable of knowing who you are not what you made up how do you do that I can do it I swear to God in two minutes people say teach techniques oh I do teach techniques you just don't want to do them if the problem is I'm distracted by my ego if the problem is I built an

ego out of the events that happened in in my life that I couldn't handle that's your E's built out of well what what if I really like something you can't handle it not happening anymore you're in there thinking about how to make it happen again you can't handle the events of reality well then how do I stop doing all that learn to handle the events of reality there that's the highest spiritual path it will cover everything period learn to handle reality why because it's reality if it happened it happened happened you can't make it not

have happened it happened it came in through your senses either you can handle it or you can't if you can handle it is an experience that you had and you grow and you become a greater being because you had that experience what do somebody I love died it's a deep deep experience you have the experience you feel the pain you feel the loss for how long the amount of time that it naturally takes for it to pass through what if I don't wanted to pass through what I wanted to have died what if I can't

live with the fact that I'm not here anymore you're going to be screwed up for the rest of your life you couldn't handle something that happened what's going to happen you're going to be a mess you can't think about it every time I think about him or her I got cry no of course I'll never marry again I don't have any relation with anybody was so beautiful relation I have with okay you ruined your life they didn't ruin your life you ruined your life why because death is a natural thing and loving somebody and having

them die is a totally natural thing happens all the time it's a natural thing that doesn't mean you don't feel sorrow that doesn't mean you don't feel pain that doesn't mean you don't feel lost you love feeling the sorrow you love feeling the loss you love feeling the pain why because it's real it touch you to the depth of your being you let it all the way in you let it all the way in and what happens it doesn't get stuck there then you process it naturally it goes through and you can talk to people

about it oh man I was so beautiful my relationship with Mary it was so beautiful and she died young right it was so painful it was one of the deepest experien of my life I honor so much it was one that has to be one of those gifts she gave me to go through that and grow through that I feel closer to her there that's a whole being you're not suppressing it you're not denying that I feel pain you're open to experience all of life so you see a rattle snake it's scary it's supposed to

be scary it's rattling it wants you to not go through it all right that's it and you experien in you toia oh my God I was walking I saw this Ratt steti it was so scary was so beautiful what an experience it touched me the depth of my being all of life there that's how you get ready R go stop storing stuff because you can't handle it learn to handle things don't do the big thing I told you about you can't can't start with those you start how do you play the piano here she never

touched the piano in her life she wants to play Beethoven she really like Beethoven oh sit down and play them I can't I know you can't start with the scales can you play the scales me so yeah all right do it better do it faster try different scales eventually play Twinkle Twinkle eventually you play B doesn't mean you're a concert penist you to be a concert penist but you can enjoy playing same with a sport go on play lacrosse I don't even know anything about it learn that's how you learn to handle reality you start

with the simplest things in life such as the weather the driver in front of you what somebody said what somebody didn't say and you start handling it you practice handling it you just relax through it and offer it up do it everything you need to do to let it pass through instead of get stuck in you and you'll learn how to do that next thing you know something bigger will happen because you learned how to play the scales you can play Twinkle Twinkle because you learned how to handle the hot weather you learn how to

handle this out of the other thing next thing you know somebody had a bad day right know kind of mean kind of off the cuff and somebody was your spouse and all of a sudden okay fine they had a bad day you know how to let go you know how to let go you know learn to let go learn to handle relax release you don't want it in there you just let it go so learn to handle it and then the ego start shedding itself just stuff you store doesn't want to be in there that's

why I keeps coming back up and trying to push up and then I will stop now eventually you'll catch on that the more you let go the less it's in there and the less it's in there the more this this Energy starts coming up and shuy you start feeling these waves of spirit of Joy welling up inside of you from where down underneath where that stuff was you had shoved all that stuff on top of your Divine energy on top of the chi on top of the Shakti and it just comes up by itself and

it comes up stronger and stronger and eventually you feel this flow all the time every moment of your life there's this upward flow passing through different centers of your being and you start saying well that is really nice I used to have to have people like me to feel that I used to need somebody to hug me I love you so much I've never loved anybody but you sure yeah I'm sure I'll never leave you sure yeah yeah I'm really sure okay I feel good now right how about if that's going on all the time

when nobody doing anything not bad right and then you start realizing all it took was for me to not push stuff down on top of it I ain't pushing stuff on top of it anymore but then something really big happens that used to break you okay we'll use this one to go to God okay okay I can handle this I can handle this it hurts I can handle the pain not I can make it not hurt no no no I can handle that it hurts how by letting it pass through by releasing it by honoring

honoring respecting that this is part of life part of the experience okay and then the shock you gets stronger then it gets stronger then it gets even stronger and then you start to realize it's pushing you out of yourself ego used to pull you down into you this is lifting you up it's called the ascent it's lifting you up pushing you out of yourself and eventually gets so strong that it challenges your existence as a separate being as a as a as a ray of Consciousness that's staring at you and and you let go and

that's where the merger takes place that's where the great ones went I let go and I became the whole universe right well you are the whole universe so that's your choice live for ego or live to get rid of ego live to let go of ego and when you do by the way when you're whole like that you're the most beautiful thing ever walk the face of the Earth why it's not that you're not taking you don't need to take from anybody even your spouse even your children even your boss all you're doing is interacting

with reality it's feeding you and you're serving the moment in front of you you don't have to be a servant you are a servant there's nothing left to do but to express the love that you feel to express the beauty The Compassion everything you are that you are that great and you're making yourself a little bger by buying into the ego okay so little by little you won't get rid of it all at once don't even try just take the simple things in life and dare to honor them and respect their right to exist and

let them go and you'll learn to do the next and the next and way do you see what happens to you all right drag [Music] [Music] you've been listening to the Michael Singer podcast produced by sounds true in partnership with Shanti Publications for more information on Michael's body of work and all back episodes please join us at Michael Singer podcast.com thanks so much for listening sounds true waking up the world [Music]