What if the pain you’ve been avoiding is actually the thing that could set you free?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Michael A. Singer, beloved wisdom teacher, founder of the Temple of the Universe, and author of The Untethered Soul, The Surrender Experiment, Living Untethered, and his newest book, Wisdom Untethered: The Time for Questions. Drawn from 1,200 reader questions distilled into 200 essential ones, the conversation keeps returning to a single teaching Michael once received from a saint: “It’s the pain that ends all pain.”
Join Tami and Michael to explore:
- Why “letting go” is an inner practice, not spiritual bypassing or passivity
- What samskaras are, and why blocked energy, not memory, is the real source of inner darkness
- Why the willingness to feel disturbance, rather than suppress it, is the actual path of purification
- The practice of “falling behind” resistance, and other techniques for letting stuck energy move and release
- The difference between preferences and fears, and why the Buddha named preference as the root of suffering
- How to face real-world injustice with clarity instead of ego-driven reactivity
- Why the true motive of spiritual practice is simply to let go of what’s in the way
Whether you’ve read The Untethered Soul a dozen times or are new to Michael’s teachings, this conversation offers both the practical tools and the felt experience of what it means to stop blocking the shakti that’s already flowing within you.
Listen now, and discover why the pain you’ve been running from might be exactly what ends it. →
This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and originally aired on Sounds True One.
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