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Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

Waylon H. Lewis

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis about walking our talk—every day, in every moment. It ain"t about being perfect. Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal, talks about everyday Buddhism, meditation, eco-actions large and small, and features conversations with leading mindful thought leaders, both famous and overlooked.

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287. "It Irritates me when Boomers say ‘The Next...

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/06/27

Paradigm Shift? Not so easily. This week, Waylon speaks about the responsibility all generations have to take steps to invest in kindness, honesty, and planet-saving actions such as avoiding plastic. It’s not the role of one, lone generation to solve the problems created by those who came before them. "One of my least favorite blind spots among Boomers, or older folks, is a sort of lazy nihilism where they say, ‘Oh, you know, the next generation is so beautiful and they’re gonna they’re going to

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286. How can an open heart be an asset in scary times?

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2025/06/20

Waylon discusses what true richness really is, and reminds us all that our task in this lifetime is to keep our hearts open. It all connects when we keep our hearts open, and raw. " True richness isn't being a billionaire. True richness is being in a society where everyone is safe and can be joyful and can have success." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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285. A full-hearted Father’s Day to Fathers who Grow.

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2025/06/13

Waylon discusses difficult (or not) relationships, the need for respectful honesty (with ourselves, and our loved ones), and the good news that challenging relationships can change, such as his with his own father. " I think a lot of us have difficulty with our mothers or our fathers or our country—whatever it is. So when there's a day celebrating them such as Father's Day, Mother's Day, Independence Day—we're conflicted. And I think it's good, as with funerals and eulogies, to be honest and

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284. Don’t let them own our Flag.

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2025/05/30

Waylon discusses democracy, independent media, and how you can be a participant—if you care. “We [Elephant] often criticize Donald Trump—and we're fine with disagreement and discussion. But we're not fine with hate or lies. That's our line. We're totally fine with people correcting us, or thinking differently. We're not okay with different facts. Facts are facts...because they're true! You drop an apple and it falls. That's related to gravity and to science. From a spiritual point of view, our

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283. When the World is Hard, but the Heart is Soft.

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2025/05/16

This week on our longrunning “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series, Waylon discusses Buddhism and Sadness. Caring isn’t easy, but it leads to a beautiful, kind world that is easier on all of us. In a world where aggression is normalized, a soft, naive, joyfully troublemaking or curious heart is easily wounded, saddened, even depressed. Aggression creates further aggression. Kindness, with strength behind it, creates enlightened society. Everyday, little, ordinary moments are the best… ⁠

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282. Anyone who's been unconditionally Kind in your...

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2025/05/09

Waylon talks about Mother's Day and Motherhood with his own Mama, Linda, and his wife, Kelsey. They discuss the Buddhist perspective on Motherhood, the meditation practice of Tonglen (which traditionally starts with a Mother figure), and Kelsey shares how she likes to spend Mother's Day, while Linda shares stories of Mother's Day with Waylon when he was growing up. “I love you, mom—and Happy Mother's Day. I appreciate that you gave me a love for nature and a love for politics—not being nasty, but

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281. Moving is utterly catatonically exhausting. Why?!

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/04/25

Waylon discusses and questions the very real exhaustion that comes with moving. He asked friends for advice on why that is and he's here with their answers, and a few of his own. "It's a letting go process, I guess you could say. It's a spiritual thing. But I think for me it is an exhaustion similar to like when you're in a museum—like in Paris, or Boston, or wherever—and you're looking at an exhibition. By the end of a couple hours on your feet, your brain is exhausted because it's focusing in and

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280. In Defense of “Stuff.”

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2025/04/18

Waylon discusses the idea of "stuff" as he goes through the process of moving out of the home he's lived in for 18+ years. A close friend shared that it wasn't Waylon's "life in that box" when Waylon shared a video of his Pod being taken away. Rather, his friend replied that it was "just stuff." "I replied that I half agree. Things are things, and yeah, if a fire consumes my house, I'm gonna run out with my wife and my dog and myself, and count myself lucky—right? Ultimately, our health and our

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279. What to do when you’re Overwhelmed.

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2025/04/11

Waylon discusses what we can do when we’re overwhelmed with overwhelm. He also offers a reminder of where Dharma (or expertise) comes from. (Hint: it’s not our ego) “We all get overwhelmed. We get overwhelmed by the news. We get overwhelmed by relationships. We get overwhelmed by stress around food, or money, or how we look, whether we’re popular or not, depending on what age we are, and what’s going on. Overwhelm is really just a lack of oxygen.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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278. Not Hoarding, but: Top 10 Mindful Buys before...

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2025/04/04

Waylon offers a message to those in the United States: What to do now that he’s Tariffed you. "This isn't about hoarding, but this is about having a mindful, smart reaction. If you don't have to spend money preparing, save your money and hopefully we can get through this together. Panicking doesn't help but preparing in community does. Big love." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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277. What's the Buddhist practice of Right Speech in...

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2025/03/21

Waylon asks the question: what is the Buddhist practice of Right Speech when it comes to hate and greed and lies? “From a Buddhist point of view, we need to be honest. We must not be harmful in our speech, but we need to be able to be frank. In fact, the Buddhist notion of idiot compassion would lead us to (hopefully) remember that allowing hate or lies or prejudice or violent speech to go unanswered in any way is actually harmful." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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276. Don’t Depend on Billionaire-controlled Media.

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2025/03/14

Waylon shares a message that isn't exciting, or riveting, or hateful...but is hopefully mature, and reasonable, and helpful: "I am scared that a lot of the social media [platforms] are one decision—by an already corrupt, greedy billionaire—away from shutting down our means of communication. So I think we gotta invest in community. We gotta invest in resistance. We have to invest in connecting in ways that aren't just on social." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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275. A Sweet Message to MAHA.

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2025/03/07

Waylon offers a message directly to those who identify with MAHA, aka, Make America Healthy Again, a political platform and slogan used by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is now in charge of the health of Americans under Trump: " I have a special anger and resentment toward MAHA. And that anger and resentment isn't the neurotic kind of anger and resentment that I, as a Buddhist, want to breathe through and let go of. It is one that I want to share openly and vulnerably." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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274. We can do this together. Things can get easier....

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/02/27

Mindfulness, meditation, compassion… The things Elephant focuses on… These are not separate from caring about politics, policy, public service. If we keep coming from a place of caring, of basic goodness, the boulder we are rolling up the hill will begin to roll down the next hill. We can do this together. Things can get easier. Keep caring. “Compassion fatigue arises when there's confusion and ego mixed up in [our caring]. Ego doesn't mean that we're bad people. We all have ego. We all get caught

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273. The Buddhist Notion of Groundlessness (is...

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/02/21

This week on our longrunning, ongoing “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series: "Groundlessness is something Buddhism talks about a lot. And you think, well, groundlessness, that sounds pretty bad. We always want ground beneath our feet. We want to be able to ground into Mother Earth, connect with the heavens above, connect with our hearts, our shoulders, connect with society. That's actually a meditation practice in the Buddhist tradition. But groundlessness is something that all of us go

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272. What to do when we’re Feeling Blue—from a...

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2025/02/14

Waylon gives practical Buddhist life advice for when you're feeling defeated, depressed, or blue. “The advice from a mindful point of view is obvious, but when we're in that state of mind what's obvious is forgotten: so get in nature, look up and out—force yourself to breathe—meaning going for a walk, biking, anything where you have to [intentionally] breathe because breathing helps us process. Desperately try to avoid negative habitual patterns.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis For more: Habitual Patterns:

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271. Feng Shui your Love Life: Waylon & Kelsey Lewis...

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/02/07

Waylon and his wife, Kelsey, have a frank conversation about love and dust bunnies with one of our favorite guests: mindful feng shui expert Anjie Cho. They discuss how we can use mindfulness, Buddhism, and feng shui to awaken our love lives this Valentine’s Day. Anjie came with the goods—not only does she have specific advice for Waylon and Kelsey, she offers several tips for singles looking to attract a partner into their lives, and those already in a relationship.

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270. I’ll support Trump tomorrow! (If) ~ Waylon

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2025/01/25

Waylon will support President Trump tomorrow, if... "I always say, I have nothing against Trump—for as much as I despise him and think he's doing awful things in the world, if tomorrow he woke up and was 'buttercups and dancing through meadows' and 'let's be kind to people, and humans and animals and the planet all matter'—that would be great. I would support him tomorrow." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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269. On MLK day, Trump’s Inauguration, & the greed of...

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/01/20

Waylon's thoughts on the historical day that is January 20th, 2025. "The fact that all of this is happening on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is both painful and telling. We have so far to go as a country..." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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268. If you're feeling Numb as Trump becomes...

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis ·

2025/01/19

Tomorrow, it’s Trump. Today, it’s Biden. If you’re feeling shook, that’s normal: here’s what we can do and not do for others and ourselves. ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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