Kitchen Sink Dharma

By: Walter Young
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  • 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 always here and it’s always available. If you’re too busy looking for transcendent experiences you’ll miss it. You can find it in the washing of a cup, the sound of a bird, a conversation with your son, your daughter, your mother, your friend. You can find it in the sensations in your body as you work and rest and live and breathe. Just listen with your body, heart and mind.
    2023
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Philosophy Social Sciences Spirituality
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  • The brittleness of perfection

    The brittleness of perfection
    Jan 1 2025

    It's possible to see the path as a process of refinement, of perfecting even, but it’s a good idea to leave our perfectionist tendencies behind if we can. We can train ourselves, get to know ourselves, explore our inner lives and cultivate peace, all of which will help us.

    But there's not even an ounce of happiness to be had from trying to create a perfect self.
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    12 mins
  • We long for nice things

    We long for nice things
    Dec 18 2024

    A great deal of our mental bandwidth is taken up with craving. We don’t recognise how much it organises our lives. It externalises happiness and makes us perpetually restless, a hostage to conditions.

    One skilful way of responding to craving when it arises is simply to bring it into awareness. We can then start to question it and understand it better.

    This is a recording of a talk for Insight North East from May 2024.
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    18 mins
  • It is with much embarrassment

    It is with much embarrassment
    Dec 4 2024

    Our inner struggles often go on longer than they need to, but eventually they fade. Like everything, they’re impermanent.

    Our clinging and reacting can’t be sustained indefinitely. The ability to notice that, to watch our reactivity fade, is a powerful practice. We can’t always observe it arising because we’re too caught up in it, but we can notice its fading.
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    12 mins

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Inspiring and insightful

Deep wisdom is offered in a warm and
accessible manner that makes the Buddhist teachings seem so timeless and available to us all.
Each episode focuses on a specific theme that provides an opportunity to consider our inner world and how we can develop greater understanding and the ability to respond to ourselves and the world around us with curiosity and compassion. Thank you for your Walter.

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