Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

Waylon Lewis lists his favorite books to get the beginner Buddhist, or anyone, started. Bonus: Waylon leads a meditation at the end.

The notion of moreover: we can live life—relationships, work, neuroses—from the point of view of lost in it, lost in all the details, that feeling of overwhelm and chaos (we all know that feeling of busyness and inefficiency) or we can live it above the clouds, with clarity, moreover.

How to get moreover all of it.

Waylon demonstrates how to use natural hierarchy to uplift your life without being uptight.

Many of us have an expectation that spirituality should be pleasant, pretty, affirming. It can be. But it can also be tough, scary, uncomfortable.

What it is, most fundamentally, is natural. In harmony with Nature, we learn to abide by its laws.

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Waylon shares his favorite poem with the Elephant Journal community. Poems can be helpful to us in a spiritual, heartfelt way. But there are also practical, life-helpful poems. And the poem he's sharing today is a practical poem for everyday life, that has been especially helpful for Waylon and his family in recent days.

"This poem is a roadmap for a lot of life's challenges in a way that very few are." ~ Waylon Lewis

Waylon talks with Janette Spiezio of Sustainable Haus, a zero-waste store in Summit, New Jersey. Check out her helpful articles on Elephant!

"The most inspiring woman you’ll want to learn from today!" ~ Waylon Lewis

Waylon talks with Janette about:

> Keys to successful entrepreneurship and why so many zero-waste shops close

> How to actually change society: bottom-up creating more top-down change

> Anti-plastic vs. non-toxic

> Perfection vs. effort

> The power of word of mouth

Waylon (dumb) vs Dr. John Douillard (expert) talk health!   The Ideal Summer Diet According to Ayurveda with Waylon Lewis & Dr. John Douillard.

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We don't have to worship Biden to vote for him...because when we vote for him, we're voting for us and we're voting for democracy, and this is our last chance. If that sounds like partisan hyperbole, you're not listening to Trump and his acolyte's own words. And after that debate—lying on one side, goodness and aged exhaustion on the other...I feel a sense of care and sadness for this American experiment: that is, freedom, and democracy.

While I said the below before the many and growing calls for his retirement to make space for a new group of candidates, the ethics or values herein apply 100%:

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents: Our natural and healthy tendency to become distracted by the daily vicissitudes of life and, is, on the flip side, the result of not treating what is urgent as urgent because we are...distracted. 

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Selflessness is a path, not a state of perfection. If, along the way, we practice thinking of others, first, we might find our ego's self-concern dissolve.

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Inside this classic Walk the Talk Show conversation, Waylon starts by leading us with a simple meditation and then discusses how to slow down, be present, and mindfully enjoy what’s left of summer.

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Why July 4th is more than a party.

Thoughtful Dissent & Non-violent Activism is Patriotism: Happy July 4th!

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