E183: The Impersonal Nature of Reality
5/21/202650 min
The personal mind creates suffering by taking everything personally and forming preferences about how life should be. In truth, life’s events are the outcomes of vast chains of cause and effect stretching through time and space. Suffering arises when we deny the reality of these causes and resist the events that are unfolding before us, as well as those that have unfolded in the past. Spiritual liberation comes from learning to align with reality as it is and then working to raise it as it passes before us.
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First 90 secondsMichael Singer· Host0:01
Mm-hmm. Jagard of Sham Masters. The mind can be one of the greatest obstacles on the spiritual path. Usually is. But it can be a great liberator. There's two layers of mind: the personal and the impersonal. It's not a philosophical discussion, it's something you live with every day of your life. But we don't pay attention enough. What is the personal mind? It thinks about you. What do I want? What do I not want? What do I like? What bothered me? What happened in the past that I liked or didn't like? What might happen in the future? It has the word I, me, and mine. That's pretty much defines it. If it's using I, me, and mine, even things that you think are not you, like my child, my husband, what I love, what makes me feel love, that's all personal. Why? 'Cause it's about you. Wow. What else is there? A whole universe. You're really very small. [laughs] If you look at yourself physiologically, you don't take up much space on the planet, do you? There's, what, eight point three billion, billion of you running around, and they all use the word I, and they all are talking about themselves. That is the