Dustin Poirier
speaker
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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doing chores, seeing friends interacting.
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And these things, they happen effortlessly.
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And the thoughts that accompany them, well, they're linked to the next doing thing.
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And so in that way, often,
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your thoughts become your actions.
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And so I feel that it is a very important practice to try and sit with your thoughts in purposeful moments of inaction.
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And this is because, and
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But in day-to-day life it can be easy to begin to believe
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that your thoughts are you.
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If all your thoughts are linked to an action, then it really seems as if those thoughts are you, are the sum of you.
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But when you spend some time thinking without doing,
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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.
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You can see that these thoughts
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are not you.
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They don't control you.
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Sometimes they might not even really feel like they come from you.
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And not only this, but they are, or most often can be, extremely transient, ephemeral,
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This is especially true of thoughts that are linked to strong emotions that you can feel in your body.
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And whilst sometimes thoughts and their accompanying feelings can feel so powerful as such that in that moment they feel
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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
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