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Kitchen Sink Dharma

How ancient teachings help us to navigate modern life. Every two weeks a new episode offers 15 minutes of sanity, drawing from early Buddhist teachings, designed to wake you up from your stress and misery. It can be hard to believe that doing something as simple as practising mindfulness will free us, but it will. Don’t imagine that there are secret teachings out there somewhere that you need to go and find. The answer is much closer to home. You’ll find it right here in this very moment. It’s

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13:35

Many paths, one dharma

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2024/01/03

We live in an incredible time for cross-pollination of ideas, including ideas about how to live in this world, with access to more information than ever about religious and spiritual traditions. For anyone looking for a practice, there’s no shortage of options from which to choose a path. However, at some point, if we really want to wake up, it's important to stop window shopping and to start engaging seriously with one practice.

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12:46

A breath of air

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/12/27

Mindfulness of breathing is taught as a direct and simple approach to waking up. It’s always available to us, not just when we're practising formal meditation. It's available at the traffic lights, in the supermarket or when we’re stuck behind a computer screen. We can practise it anywhere, anytime.

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12:49

On fire

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/12/20

In Buddhist teachings, fire is used as a metaphor to describe reactivity. Much of our waking life is spent burning with discontent. Fire is also the element of transformation. When we learn to engage with this cycle of confusion and pain, we can use it as fuel for awakening.

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Entering the stream

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/12/13

Entering the stream means starting to see through delusion and believing, knowing that things can be different. To enter the stream means to embrace life and change the way we live. Life is no longer blocked; it starts to flow.

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12:52

Touching the Earth

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/12/06

This path isn't about living in a perpetual state of bliss. It’s about being in the present moment, whatever that happens to look like. Walking in your bare feet sometimes. Sleeping on the hard ground. If we’re really going to benefit from our practice, we have to be prepared to engage with the earth as well as the sky.

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12:53

Meditating with a distracted mind

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/11/29

When you first started meditating, did you notice how hard it was to still the mind with all that mental chatter going on? As we practise meditation, we learn that it’s possible to stabilise the attention, to calm the mind and to train ourselves in mindfulness.

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12:11

Making room for joy

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/11/22

Buddhists talk a lot about suffering, but a joyful attitude is at the heart of the whole awakening process. So is a passionate engagement with life. As soon as we stop generating misery and drama, joy is there.

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13:48

Mindfulness and pain

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/11/15

Pain is a process, it’s not solid, it’s more like a verb than a noun. Instead of identifying with the pain as our pain, we can breath into it. We can allow it to arise and pass in its own time. We can make it our teacher.

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13:58

Constant craving

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/11/08

We already possess the capacity to be truly at peace, in the present moment. Inside each of us is a great well of happiness and contentment. We tend to think that a particular experience, an external circumstance will make us happy and complete. But external conditions are a pale reflection of the capacity for true contentment that exists inside us.

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13:34

This precious mind

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/11/01

The world makes multiple, relentless demands on our attention. We live in an attention economy and it’s constantly agitating us, often without us even noticing. Where we direct our awareness is up to us. The choices we make can have a profound effect on our precious minds and on how we experience the world.

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14:39

Wise Effort

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/10/25

Sometimes meditation feels effortless and other times even just showing up to meditate is really hard. The good news is that it doesn’t matter that much whether your practice is sweet and sublime or an uphill battle. If you can get the balance of effort right, it’ll lead you towards freedom either way.

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12:28

Life is practice

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/10/18

Practice is the act of doing something regularly or repeatedly to improve your skill at doing it. We’re always practising something. This moment is practice for the next. With Insight Meditation, we’re practising being on good terms with every aspect of our lives. And it's not just something we do on the meditation cushion.

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Forgiveness

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/10/11

Resentment isn’t a happy, comfortable state to be in. If you’re in any doubt, just tune in to your body next time you’re nursing a resentment. Listen to the chatter in your mind. It’s exhausting. Forgiveness represents a shift from a small, separate sense of self to something much bigger that includes the possibility of moving on and renewal. Without forgiveness, life would be unbearable.

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13:52

An unshakeable heart and mind

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/10/04

The practice of mettā is a capacity of the heart that can be accessed even in the middle of the most difficult situations. It’s a universal antidote for suffering that allows us to be on good terms with every aspect of our lives.

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Beneath the noise

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/09/27

When we quiet the mind and the stream of thoughts starts to subside, we get a glimpse of what else is there. We notice that there’s also awareness, simple awareness. Seeing this gets you closer to knowing your true nature. The narrator in your head isn’t who you are. Any feelings you have of insufficiency or separateness are just feelings. Because really, we’re a part of all existence, we belong in this world and our essential nature, our basic goodness, is always present.

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How does mindfulness actually help us?

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/09/20

Although we usually associate mindfulness with paying attention in the present moment, there’s more to it than that. Mindfulness doesn’t ever exist in a vacuum, it's wise, informed and skilful. It has an ethical dimension. Attention is one component of mindfulness, but it’s a quality of attention that’s informed by kindness and curiosity. Mindfulness offers us a rich source of insight. It protects us from our own habits of reactivity and agitation. When we get lost in stories about ourselves, it

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11:03

Belonging

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/09/13

Belonging and being accepted motivate much of what we do. When we don’t have a sense of belonging it can be acutely uncomfortable. The desire to belong can lead us to try to make ourselves more acceptable, even to hide who we really are, in case we're not good enough. And there’s no need because the truth is that we belong already.

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Clinging in the rain

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/09/06

Buddhist teachers often talk about attachment as the root of our suffering. We’re supposed to practise detachment. But maybe ‘attachment’ is the wrong word to use here because in modern psychology, attachment relationships are seen as being healthy. Maybe the words ‘clinging’ or ‘reactivity’ are more helpful words for describing a habit that causes us endless stress and misery.

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11:49

A Sacred Space

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/08/30

We’re very good at ignoring or blocking what our emotions are telling us. Our inner listening is often drowned out by the monkey chatter of our internal dialogue. Creating a quiet space, a sacred space, allows us to listen in a deep, receptive, and caring way.

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11:35

Who exactly are you?

Kitchen Sink Dharma ·

2023/08/23

We’re profoundly connected to other people, both from a practical point of view but also emotionally. When we feel threatened or overwhelmed we forget this. Instead, we start to see ourselves as being separate and disconnected from the world. It becomes 'us vs them'. But contraction, anger and fear are not default states, they’re visitors. And when we stop clinging to a fixed, separate sense of self, we experience the world very differently.

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