Jul 9, 2026 · 50 min · 13 segments
Ego causes suffering because it constantly worries about how people and circumstances relate to its self-image and personal preferences. Every experience ego resists becomes stored inside as emotional…
Michael SingerHost
Is it a problem? Well, it creates a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety, a lot of worry, a lot of mind, and ultimately heart.
Okay? Is that natural? Is that appropriate? Does it have to be that way? You live inside.
Why should what you think other people think about you bother you? There's eight point three billion people on the planet Earth.
You couldn't care less about ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent of the people that are here, what they think about you.
How do you like that? And so you say, "Well, why?" Because it does cause commotion.
You feel people aren't looking at you the way you want them to look at you, as it boils down to, because somebody could look at you a certain way or treat you a certain way or talk to you a certain way, and it wouldn't bother you at all.
And somebody else, or even at a different time and place, something gets said to you, and you get offended.
The masters say you'll always have one, but the veil can be so thin that it doesn't cause a commotion.
But in order to live in the body, you're going to have a concept of your individual self, and just depends on what you think of yourself as to how you get affected by how other people think of you.
So if you meditate a lot, and that's where your depth of understanding is, that you find peace and love inside, you're not as sensitive to what other people think.
Is it a problem? Well, it creates a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety, a lot of worry, a lot of mind, and ultimately heart.
Okay? Is that natural? Is that appropriate? Does it have to be that way? You live inside.
Why should what you think other people think about you bother you? There's eight point three billion people on the planet Earth.
You couldn't care less about ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent of the people that are here, what they think about you.
How do you like that? And so you say, "Well, why?" Because it does cause commotion.
You feel people aren't looking at you the way you want them to look at you, as it boils down to, because somebody could look at you a certain way or treat you a certain way or talk to you a certain way, and it wouldn't bother you at all.
And somebody else, or even at a different time and place, something gets said to you, and you get offended.
The masters say you'll always have one, but the veil can be so thin that it doesn't cause a commotion.
But in order to live in the body, you're going to have a concept of your individual self, and just depends on what you think of yourself as to how you get affected by how other people think of you.
So if you meditate a lot, and that's where your depth of understanding is, that you find peace and love inside, you're not as sensitive to what other people think.
Every episode on Radar is fully transcribed, speaker-labeled, and rich with metadata. Here is a taste of this one. Try Radar for free to see the rest.
3 of 6
Sun? No, Star Burn!
He reframes heat with an astronomical twist.
Perspective: 1.3 Million Earths
Tiny Earth versus today’s trivial frustrations.
Why Bother With Billion Opinions?
Questioning our obsession with outside opinions.
+3 more clips · 3 min 32 sec of audio in all
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
All 6 clips — the highlight moments, each cut as its own audio, with a title and a speaker
All 13 segments — the transcript broken into labeled sections, every ad read marked
All 22 topics — jump to every other episode discussing the same subject
Every related episode — other shows Radar links to this one
No account is needed to search Radar.
