Dustin Poirier

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344 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

Dustin Poirier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Send Me To Sleep · Send Me To Sleep | Meditation (Voice Only) · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

doing chores, seeing friends interacting. voice-verified

And these things, they happen effortlessly. voice-verified

And the thoughts that accompany them, well, they're linked to the next doing thing. voice-verified

And so in that way, often, voice-verified

your thoughts become your actions. voice-verified

And so I feel that it is a very important practice to try and sit with your thoughts in purposeful moments of inaction. voice-verified

And this is because, and voice-verified

But in day-to-day life it can be easy to begin to believe voice-verified

that your thoughts are you. voice-verified

If all your thoughts are linked to an action, then it really seems as if those thoughts are you, are the sum of you. voice-verified

But when you spend some time thinking without doing, voice-verified

You can begin as you, like I say, take those thoughts, turn them into something concrete, an object you can hold in your hand, really look at it, analyze it. voice-verified

You can see that these thoughts voice-verified

are not you. voice-verified

They don't control you. voice-verified

Sometimes they might not even really feel like they come from you. voice-verified

And not only this, but they are, or most often can be, extremely transient, ephemeral, voice-verified

This is especially true of thoughts that are linked to strong emotions that you can feel in your body. voice-verified

And whilst sometimes thoughts and their accompanying feelings can feel so powerful as such that in that moment they feel voice-verified

immovable eventually they too pass and this is why often you will hear when people are talking on the subject of meditation the metaphor of the mind voice-verified

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