Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

06/03/2025

"Sweet"

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.

04/03/2025

Meditation and mindfulness not only *can* help us continue to show up, care, and be at peace with ourselves and these times—they *do* help.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. ~ Chögyam Trungpa Waylon Lewis leads Shamata meditation instruction at Camp elephant (our HQ) during Boulder Startup Week. Meditation is a practice y...

26/02/2025

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25/02/2025

What to do if you own a Tesla, plus a link to a magnet we like:

I bought my Tesla 6 years ago. It was the most Made in America car that I could buy. It was also more environmental, etc. It was the future. 10% of Boulder probably owns a Tesla. ~ a comment What to...

24/02/2025

“The advice from a mindful point of view is obvious...but when we’re in that state of mind what’s obvious is forgotten.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

So, know that you're not alone. Know that a lot of people who work their butts off and are ethical and good people are also freaked out about the state of the U.S. and our world.

24/02/2025

“Make no mistake: empathy is not weak or ‘woke.’ And, by the way, ‘woke’ just means you give a damn about other people.” ~ Jane Fonda at the SAG Awards

Make no mistake: empathy is not weak or 'woke.' And, by the way, 'woke' just means you give a damn about other people. ~ Jane Fonda at the SAGAwards Jane Fonda’s full speech on empathy is one that t...

20/02/2025

Elephant article title of the week.

Just as healing from narcissistic abuse is not about one single moment of breaking free, but about the ongoing work of reclaiming self-trust, resisting systemic manipulation is about the long haul. It’s about knowing when to rest, when to act, when to conserve energy, and when to channel it.

19/02/2025

Read here: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2025/02/resisting-with-mindfulness-a-buddhist-guide-to-the-trump-era-stacey-acquavella/

19/02/2025

“The advice from a mindful point of view is obvious, but when we’re in that state of mind what’s obvious is forgotten.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

So, know that you're not alone. Know that a lot of people who work their butts off and are ethical and good people are also freaked out about the state of the U.S. and our world.

18/02/2025

The next 10 days, avoid travel, big decisions, business moves—this time just before the Tibetan New Year is considered a mildly dangerous time best spent in contemplation & cleaning up the accumulated karmic dust bunnies from the year before.

 Every year since I was a child, New Year's Eve was special, but little more than a lead up to Shambhala Day, when my American Buddhist community gathered, pulled our Sunday best out of storage, m...

14/02/2025

“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, know that you're not alone. Know that a lot of people who work their butts off and are ethical and good people are also freaked out about the state of the U.S. and our world.

02/02/2025

This morning: We invite you to join our community event. It'll be a group hug in this dumpster fire of a world. Come find your voice with us. Together, we'll put words to the swirling of emotions inside our hearts and our brains after a rough start to 2025.⁠
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We’re not here to put words in your mouth, but to give you an opportunity to put words to whatever you’re going through—and share them. ⁠
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🔥 Price: Free—or, pay it forward a little. ⁠
🔥 Date: Sunday, February 2nd⁠
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Register now for Elephant’s Free “Find your Voice” Community Writing Event—with Waylon Lewis. on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on February 2, 2025, 10:00 AM MST.

13/01/2025

This week! 👉🏽 presents: with where they'll speak about what the Year of the Yin Wood Snake means and share mindful feng shui tips to welcome the new energy into our homes for 2025 this Lunar, or Eastern New Year. ⁠
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10/01/2025

Waylon shares a message with our dear Elephant community about the devastating fires ravaging California right now…and what it means for us. We have to do more than think about taking action. We have to actually do it.
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18/12/2024

Willpower ain’t enough.⁠

Life is made up, muchly, of habitual patterns. We can dissolve them through meditation practice. But we can also alter them, simply, through cognition. So, in that spirit, here’s…

We can obsess about changing our lives, but if we're all castle in the sky, and no feet on the earth, it'll be tough stuff...

18/12/2024

Parents! Children! The biggest funnest celebration of the year in the Buddhist tradition is upon us!

It's cross-cultural, too: it honors the Winter Solstice, Invicti Solis, the darkest day of the year, and the return of the sun!

Children's Day is the Buddhist equivalent of Hannukah—a holy-day we American Buddhists put up to warm us against the strong winds of Christmas. It's coming...and I already miss my mom waking me up too early singing something and serving me breakfast in bed with a home made present carefully wrapped and calligraphed.

Here's how we celebrate it:

>> Children's Day 2024 Walk the Talk Show update from Waylon Lewis:  Can't watch? Why not listen:   >> Children’s Day & the Winter Solstice & what they Mean for us....

17/12/2024

Klesha attack!

Instead of attacking, Buddhism advises: 'be wood.' Like driftwood. Do nothing. Examine your own experience, look at truth, breathe, take care of yourself…then you can respond out of sanity.

12/12/2024

"It's a challenging place to be: caught between honoring my grief and embracing the spirit of the season."

There are moments I want to embrace the excitement and joy that the holiday brings, but at the same time, I struggle with a desire to withdraw or feel guilty for