Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday Better

By Wendy Shinyo Haylett

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Wendy Shinyo Haylett, an author, Buddhist teacher, lay minister, behavioral and spiritual coach shares the "tips and tricks" found in Buddhist teachings to make your professional and personal life better ... everyday!

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Everyday Buddhism 87 - Unta...

03.08.2023

In this episode I talk with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, an author, Zen teacher, and Jungian psychotherapist who has devoted his life to the study and application of psychotherapy and Buddhism. In our conversation, we discuss Koshin's latest book, Untangled: ...

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03.08.2023 Everyday Buddhism 87 - Untangled with Koshin Paley Ellison In this episode I talk with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, an author, Zen teacher, and Jungian psychotherapist who has devoted his life to the study and application of psychotherapy and Buddhism. In our conversation, we discuss Koshin's latest book, Untangled: ...
02.25.2023 BONUS - Chat With Everyday Buddhism 1 Welcome to a special BONUS podcast, introducing our first "Chat with Everyday Buddhism" YouTube videocast on our Everyday Buddhism YouTube channel and now as an audio version for the podcast. It is our very first episode of "Chat with Everyday ...
02.14.2023 Everyday Buddhism 85 - What Could Go Right with Emma Varvaloucas In this episode, I talk with Emma Varvaloucas, an editor and writer with a decade+ focusing on discovering and publicizing underreported good news in the nonprofit media space. Emma is the executive director of The Progress Network, where she writes ...
01.12.2023 BIRTHDAY BONUS PODCAST: Impermanence with Kaspa Thompson (Inspired by Shan Tao) Enjoy a special release of a Members Only Feature: Bonus Contemplation Podcasts. These are short podcasts for you to use as subjects for contemplation or analytical meditation. I've released this contemplation, "Impermanence", as a birthday gift to my podcast audience, ...
01.12.2023 BIRTHDAY BONUS PODCAST: The Five Remembrances with Bradley Jinaiyo Nussbaum Enjoy a special release of a Members Only Feature: Bonus Contemplation Podcasts. These are short podcasts for you to use as subjects for contemplation or analytical meditation. I've released this contemplation, "The Five Remembrances", as a birthday gift to my ...
01.12.2023 Everyday Buddhism 82 - Birthday Bonus Intro: Impermanence In this episode, I celebrate my 70th birthday, which was yesterday, with the release of 2 special bonus contemplations on impermanence. I saved a couple of Members-only bonus episodes for release following episode 81, "Navigating Grief and Loss" with Kimberly ...
12.28.2022 Everyday Buddhism 81 - Navigating Grief and Loss with Kimberly Brown In this episode, I talk with Kimberly Brown about her new book, Navigating Grief and Loss:25 Buddhist Practices to Keep your Heart Open to Yourself and Others, where she shares an approachable pathway to personal and collective well-being through real-life, ...
12.07.2022 Everyday Buddhism 80 - Bodhi Day: Best of Everyday Buddhism Episodes In this special "best of" episode, we celebrate Bodhi Day, the traditional celebration of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni's enlightenment. Yet, listen as we discover how it is a celebration of our enlightenment, too. The message of the December darkness is ...
11.22.2022 Everyday Buddhism 79 - Luminous Darkness with Deborah Eden Tull In this episode, I get lost in a conversation with Deborah Eden Tull, who I wished I could have talked with for hours! Deborah Eden Tull is a Zen meditation and dharma teacher, author, public speaker, and sustainability educator. In ...
10.28.2022 Everyday Buddhism 78 - The Diamonds Within Us With Melissa Moore In this episode, I have a far-ranging and fascinating conversation with Melissa Moore, Ph.D., a teacher of Buddhism and Contemplative Psychology. In it we talk about her book, The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology, a treasure ...
10.13.2022 Everyday Buddhism 77 - Shin Buddhism with Rev. Marvin Harada I am honored to present this podcast episode with Rev. Marvin Harada, the Bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America. In it we discuss what makes Shin Buddhism a truly "everyday Buddhism", meditation, mindfulness, chanting, ritual, and about the teachers ...
09.22.2022 BONUS PODCAST: Contemplation - Loved Just As I Am Enjoy another special preview of a Members Only Feature: Bonus Contemplation Podcasts. These are short podcasts for you to use as subjects for contemplation or analytical meditation. This contemplation, "Loved Just As I Am", is by my dear friend, Satya ...
09.20.2022 Everyday Buddhism 76 - Losing My Hair: Alopecia, An Uninvited Teacher In this episode, I share my journey into baldness caused by Alopecia Areata. September is Alopecia Awareness month, so I'm happy to share this episode now. No matter what our hair looks like or changes to, we are never satisfied. ...
08.22.2022 Everyday Buddhism 75 - Beyond the Cushion with Jack Huynh Join me for a conversation with Jack Huynh, a long-time Buddhist practitioner and the founder of the https://beyondthecushion.com/ website. Jack is a first-generation immigrant to the U.S. from the Vietnam War and found his own path in the Dharma, different ...
07.20.2022 Everyday Buddhism 74 - My Relationship With Troublesome Buddhas Join me for a special summer mirror episode of the podcast, Zen At The Sharp End by Mark Westmoquette where I was invited to talk about my experience with "troublesome Buddhas." The Zen At The Sharp End podcast focuses on ...
07.16.2022 Everyday Buddhism 73 - Confined to Align with Ashley Lyn Olson Join me for a very special conversation with Ashley Lynn Olson, the author of the book, Confined to Align, and the author of a life that has consistently defied the odds. And that is, in no small part, due to ...
06.16.2022 Everyday Buddhism 72 - Walking on Pins and Needles with Arlene Faulk Join me for a conversation with Arlene Faulk, as we talk about the ups and downs of living with the symptoms, diagnosis, and eventual healing of Multiple Sclerosis. Arlene went from a career as business executive to a calling as ...
06.16.2022 SPECIAL Intro to Ep.72 and 73 - Dynamic Acceptance of What Seems Impossible In the next two episodes, Episode 72 and Episode 73, I am in conversation with two amazing women who demonstrate with their lives how we can actively accept what seems unacceptable. Although these episodes represent something out of the ordinary ...
06.10.2022 BONUS PODCAST PREVIEW: Contemplation - Not Knowing Enjoy a preview of a NEW Members Only Feature: Bonus Contemplation Podcasts. These are short podcasts for you to use as subjects for contemplation or analytical meditation. They will be released regularly and presented by myself or some of my ...
06.09.2022 Everyday Buddhism 71 - Why Nonsense Makes the Most Sense Rev. Gyomay Kubose, my teacher's father, wrote about "purposeless purpose." He said: "Too much intelligence or too much efficiency can create trouble. So, we must learn non-intelligence, which is super intelligence." Does that sound nonsensical? Our sangha is studying The ...
04.30.2022 Everyday Buddhism 70 - Disappearing? Transcending? In the past year I've noticed a feeling of "disappearing" in the world ... and to the world. A sense of my slipping relevance to the people and world around me. Yet, the good news about seeming to disappear is ...
04.10.2022 Everyday Buddhism 69 - Thoughts on the Loss of My Teacher - Rev. Koyo Kubose My teacher, mentor, and friend, Rev. Sunnan Koyo Kubose passed away suddenly last month. In his honor, I'm replaying Episode 20, a special interview with him, as the first of a series of episodes dedicated to honoring my teachers. It ...
03.09.2022 Everyday Buddhism 68 - The Buddha's Wife: Yasodhara and the Buddha with Vanessa Sasson Join me for a delightful conversation with Vanessa Sasson who told the Buddha's story in a way you probably never heard it. She masterfully places you in the lives of Siddhartha and his wife, Yasodhara, as Siddhartha comes to grips ...
02.19.2022 Everyday Buddhism 67 - Love and the Strength of Our Humanness Join me for a fascinating conversation with Arthur Brooks, where we talk about two of his 12 books, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt and From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, ...
02.07.2022 Everyday Buddhism 66 - Buddhist Spiritual Friendship as a UU Pastor with Pamela Patton In this podcast, I talk with Pamela Patton, Director of Pastoral Ministries for All Souls NYC. Pamela is a both a Unitarian Universalist and a Buddhist and she founded the Buddhism and Mindfulness program at the popular Unitarian Universalist church, ...
12.21.2021 Everyday Buddhism 65 - Winter Solstice, Bodhi Day, and the Light of the Buddha's Promise In this episode, we celebrate the Winter Solstice, Bodhi Day, and the light of the Buddha's Promise, meaning our enlightenment, too. The message of the December darkness is a messenger of our own enlightenment. As Bhikkhu Bodhi wrote, "having discovered ...
11.05.2021 Everyday Buddhism 64 - We Were Made For These Times With Kaira Jewel Lingo Join me for an absorbing and inspiring conversation with someone who I now consider a personal teacher: Kaira Jewel Lingo, the author of the just-released book, We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and ...
10.30.2021 Everyday Buddhism 63 - Halloween: What Scares You? What Masks Do You Wear? In this special repeat episode, we'll look at the overlaps between the pagan origination, rituals, and concepts of Halloween and Tibetan Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism ... and also examine it all from an Everyday Buddhism perspective. What scares you? What ...
10.24.2021 Everyday Buddhism 62 - The Magic Power of Equanimity I can't stop talking about equanimity. So this episode is about the magic power of equanimity. What is it? Why is it important all the the time, but especially now? And how do we get it? As I've mentioned in ...
09.23.2021 Everyday Buddhism 61 - A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment with Scott Snibbe Join me for a conversation with Scott Snibbe, the host of the podcast, A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment. Enjoy a free-flowing conversation between two long-time Buddhist practitioners and podcast hosts as we talk about the power of Buddhism and meditation ...
08.26.2021 Everyday Buddhism 60 - It's All About "Tude" But Not That "Tude" To reiterate the obvious, life has been hard lately. Depressing and a struggle for many and devastating for so many others. All this suffering around us: plagues, violence, floods, fires. And those of you who follow this podcast know, I've ...
08.09.2021 Everyday Buddhism 59: The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas with Frank Howard Join the conversation with one of my first teachers, Frank Howard, as we talk about a little book called The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas. I first met this book at the Dharma Center Frank directs and teaches, where His Eminence ...
05.26.2021 Everyday Buddhism 58: Allow Joy - Chan Practice for Uncertain Times Join me for a conversation—and a gentle teaching—with one of the most clear and inspiring teachers I've met. Rebecca Li, the author of Allow Joy into Our Hearts: Chan Practice in Uncertain Times, talks with me about her new book ...
04.15.2021 Everyday Buddhism 57 - Dharma for Trauma It seems, sometimes, that when Buddhist and other religious teachers, and serious practitioners get deeper into practice, the more they seem capable of deluding themselves—either in a performative way, posing and positioning for others, or because they have completely deluded ...
02.26.2021 Everyday Buddhism 56 - Can You Lament And Still Be A Buddhist? Buddhist sutras and teachings speak of lamenting only in ways that highlight how it is to be avoided and transcended, so as not to fall victim to the second arrow of suffering. The Buddha's teaching that there is dukkha, or ...
02.11.2021 Everyday Buddhism 55 - Introducing Where The Light Meets Join us for this introduction of an Everyday Buddhism spin-off podcast! Follow the conversation of 4 friends: Holly Rockwell, a spiritual director and Ignatian prayer guide; Levi Shinyo Walbert Sensei, a Buddhist Lay Minister and seminary student pursuing chaplaincy and ...
01.13.2021 Everyday Buddhism 54 - Same Crap, Different Year? Join me as I share my struggle finding some peace in the midst of the uncertainties that have chased us from 2020 into 2021. Despite our urge to run, hide, strike out, or curl up in a ball, as Buddhists ...
12.12.2020 Everyday Buddhism 53 - Lessons for Covid Living From Those With Long-Term Health Challenges In this episode we are continuing our "How I'm Coping" series but with a bit of a different twist. I've brought together two podcast listeners who expressed a different perspective on how they are coping with the pandemic. Both of ...
11.26.2020 Everyday Buddhism 52 - How To Be Thankful in the Midst of Sadness In this podcast, we'll explore finding ways to say "thank you" in this time of loss, fear, despair, and uncertainty. I take some time reflecting on the Buddhist teachings of the gift of our "precious human life." Our lives are ...
10.26.2020 Everyday Buddhism 51 - Steady, Calm and Brave with Kimberly Brown Join me in conversation with Kimberly Brown as we discuss her new book, Steady, Calm and Brave, a handbook of healing tools to help us through the fraught times of 2020—and beyond. In a delightfully honest and personal conversation, Kimberly ...
10.17.2020 Everyday Buddhism 50 - The Social Dilemma and Otherness "When you look around you it feels like the world is going crazy.... Is this normal or have we all fallen under some spell?" ~Tristan Harris In this episode I take a Buddhist view on the spell we've fallen under—and ...
10.08.2020 Everyday Buddhism 49 - A Missing Future with David Farley Join me for the first of a series of interviews with podcast listeners on how they are coping with the pandemic. In this episode, David Farley, a travel and food writer who lives in New York City, joins me for ...
09.26.2020 Everyday Buddhism 48 - Announcing the Everyday Buddhism Lecture Series on Mindful Writing Announcing a new Everyday Buddhism feature for the Membership Community: A lecture series/workshop on mindful writing! In this series I hope to introduce you to a new way of practicing mindfulness through writing. As Gary Snyder wrote, meditation can put ...
09.20.2020 Everyday Buddhism 47 - Building a Resilience Bank Account Join me as I share some insights from an article by Tara Haelle, Your Surge Capacity is Depleted—It's Why You Feel Awful, and some insights of my own, that may help you find new attitudes and practices to help you ...
08.12.2020 Everyday Buddhism 46 - 6 Steps for Coping with Uncertainty with Gregg Krech We're currently faced with a global pandemic, which reminds us how uncertain life really is. So what do we do? How do we cope? Join me in conversation with Gregg Krech, who uses the concepts of acceptance—active acceptance—to understand how ...
07.27.2020 Everyday Buddhism 45 - We're All in the Same Storm But Not in the Same Boat Join me for a short episode check-in and sharing of how I am taking personal action despite living in our current reality of uncertainty. Awakening to the fact that I was spending too much time anxiously looking "out there" at ...
06.23.2020 Everyday Buddhism 44 - Chaos and Order: Personal Reflections, Poetry, and Chaos Theory Join me for an episode that is part autobiographical, part solidarity with Pride and Black Lives matter, part poetry, part science, and part Buddhism. Sounds a bit chaotic, doesn't it? Yet I hope you find some relevant order. Sharing a ...
05.28.2020 Everyday Buddhism 43 - Awakening to the Ordinary with Dr. Christiane Michelberger Join me for a special guest episode with Dr. Christiane Michelberger, a retired physician, psychoanalyst, and past spiritual seeker who currently mentors seekers in their quest to awaken. Christiane talks about how more than 10,000 hours of meditation and 40 ...
05.11.2020 Everyday Buddhism 42 - How Not to Feel Like a Victim In this episode, I reflect on our responses when we find ourselves in life situations that don't make sense and that are out of our control. As we make our way through the global Covid-19 pandemic we see humbling examples ...
04.16.2020 Everyday Buddhism 41 - American Sutra with Duncan Williams Join me for a special guest episode with Duncan Ryuken Williams, the author of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. 125,000+ Japanese-Americans we rounded up and placed in internment camps after the bombing ...

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