Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

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

05/12/2024

Why we’re paying attention to Politics: 👉🏼 https://elejrnl.com?p=4105438

07/11/2024

The only comfort now is Community. We’ll Gather, this Saturday. Share. Be with one another. Reserve your spot and show up with tea or coffee, and focus, and your heart 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/ElePostElectionGathering

Hard to breathe, but that's when breath matters. Hard not to coil up in a ball, but that's when checking in with posture matters. It’s the frogs who stay in the heating water who get cooked. Do not normalize what’s beginning.

06/11/2024

Let's talk and listen and mourn and share.

13/10/2024

From our dinner the night of our wedding at Karme Choling in Vermont. Photo by Merete Mueller

12/10/2024

My next book ;)

How to Self-Diagnose your Self as a Sweet, Sensitive Empath: a Guide for Toxic Narcissists and other "Empaths."

How to self-diagnose yourself as a Toxic Narcissist because Sensitive Empath is already taken (by me). It's a remarkable coincidence that everyone self-diagnoses themself as an empath, and no one ever...

11/10/2024

Stop normalizing climate crisis-fueling everyday toxic forever waste:

Four reasons to drink for-here or bring your own mug: 1. Drinking hot water/coffee/tea out of plastic is bad for you. And, worse, single-use plastic (paper coffee to-go cups are lined with...plastic!)...

08/10/2024

I was delighted and honored to give little Leo a little lion gift during the exchange of rings (he served as ring bearer!) and look forward to being a fun, caring, helpful male role model in his life for years to come.

He has a loving mother, a loving father...and now a loving Waylon and "Winnyfield" as he calls my dog!

07/10/2024

30/08/2024

"People do horrible things, people act out in narcissistic ways, people can be abusive or unhealthy, and that is not okay. But to pretend that we don’t have our moments when we fall short is also not okay. We have all been given the opportunity to extend grace, and in the same vein receive it."

Read it here: https://elejrnl.com?p=4019538

27/08/2024

3. Cultivating Resilience: Failure can be a powerful tutor, and one thing it’s taught me is that you can always pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start moving forward again.

In truth, launching the company was (and still is) a process of overcoming fear and anxiety. But if that process is ongoing, business ownership has taught me much about what it means to put worry in its place

23/08/2024

"At 45 years old, I was encouraged to write a letter from my 55-year-old self using only my non-dominant hand..."

In the course of my self-prescribed writing therapy, I not only met a woman who specifically worked with people to “heal through writing,

21/08/2024

"For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us...Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?" ~ Michelle Obama

After seeing brief clips on the New York Times Instagram feed from Barack and Michelle Obama's convention speeches, I pulled up YouTube, searched the full versions, and

20/08/2024

"Sometimes I want to bury my head in the sand because it’s too much to bear...but if we think that something is only happening 'over there,' or 'it doesn’t affect me,' or 'it won’t happen to me,' I believe we’re sorely mistaken."

I stand with all the people who carry pain in their hearts and are taking intentional action for peace and healing, deep within and outwardly. Because we all have an impact on our

18/08/2024

"As a good friend is wont to do, I decided to do a deep dive online and send her a rah-rah 'Life will get better' email with a bunch of inspirational quotes. As I was almost ready to hit send, I realized with a literal yawn that if I was this bored of the email myself, how was it going to help my friend?"

Then I set about making my friend laugh out loud with a bunch of funny, nonsensical quotes that essentially said to her: It will all be okay. Life will