Waylon talks with Zen Buddhist teacher Koshin Paley Ellison about Buddhism's eightfold path—what is it, and how does it apply to our everyday life?

Koshin, author of "Untangled; Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion." is the co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

"What's so beautiful is that inside of the eightfold path, it's not linear. Some of us want to jump from one to the next, but we also honor where we get caught and where we struggle. Our struggles don't ever really end, but our relationship to them changes because of how we focus on them through the aspects of the eightfold path." ~ Koshin Paley Ellison

Read the accompanying article on Elephant Journal for more context.

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Waylon talks with Chemi Lhamo, a Tibetan Community Activist, in this latest greatest episode of Walk the Talk Show about the recent Dalai Lama controversy.

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In our latest, greatest Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis, Waylon talks with Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action—the largest grassroots movement in the United States—on commonsense gun reform and what you can and must do about it: text READY to 644-33 to join a Moms Demand Action chapter in your town.

"When there are these national shooting tragedies, people do want to get involved…often they want to get in quick, do something, and get out. But that is not how activism works in this country. I call it the unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism. It requires you to show up over and over again." ~ Shannon Watts

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Mindful Mondays, with Waylon Lewis.

This week Waylon sat down with Elephant's own Nicole Cameron: writer extraordinaire and managing editor at Elephant Journal. They talked about her average workday, dogs, and the "challenges" of the last year in indie media. This should be a good watch for any writer or reader at Elephant curious about some of the inner workings.

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In our latest, greatest Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis, Waylon talks with Andrea Rose, a veritable fount of knowledge of all things "planet-based living" and the co-founder of the Planet-Based Living Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Her mission is to heal, inspire, and transform the lives of people, animals and the planet through the education of "PLANET-Based Living."

"I have such a caring-about-the-planet crush on you. I'm so into this!" ~ Waylon Lewis

Stay tuned for part two of their conversation next week.

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:

Mindful Mondays, with Waylon Lewis.

I had a lot of loss last year and a lot of grief, and I think some depression and some giving up. And in my recent, first Ayahuasca ceremony, after those hours of crying and crying and love and crying and crying, I was left with a question that wasn't hopeful—but it was real.

And that question was, why love again?

Why would I open my heart up again when I've lost so much?

When we love, we risk losing. Don't we learn from abuse, not to go back for more? Why shouldn't we learn from love lost?

Then, suddenly, I found a way forward.

A new Walk the Talk Show conversation with Waylon Lewis: Waylon and speaks with the founder of The Vegan Stay, Faik Bouhrik.

The Vegan Stay is basically a vegan Airbnb with locations all over the world—and our staying at one directly benefits animal sanctuaries. Read the article on Elephant Journal and support Indie Media.

Waylon and bestselling author David Richo discuss the 5 A's in relationship with parenting, our lover, and our sweet self.

"I wrote this book based on my realization that the only models I had for what a relationship could look like were my parents, and movies. I wondered if there was an actual skill that one could learn, so that a relationship could work better." ~ David Richo

St. Patrick's Day may have come and gone, but this video merely uses it as an example for a larger conversation:

"Some traditions are beautiful. Some are awful. Most are both. Some change is needed. Some should be fought. Discernment is key. Know our history." ~ Waylon Lewis

Read the article Waylon quotes inside this video, "Tradition alone is not enough reason to continue something that has unnecessary pain and hurt wrapped up in it."

This week, instead of his usual weekly three mindful tips…Waylon is sharing three mindful things he's working through in his own life—right now:

1. How to give helpful advice.
2. How to get good advice.
3. And how to make big, hard decisions.

"The first step in taking good advice is to insist that the person dispensing good advice listens, first, because if they don't listen, they don't know all the factors." ~ Waylon Lewis