Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday Better

By Wendy Shinyo Haylett

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Wendy Shinyo Haylett, a Buddhist teacher, lay minister, career and mindfulness 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 52 - How ...

11.26.2020

In this podcast, we'll explore finding ways to say "thank you" in this time of loss, fear, despair, and uncertainty. Our lives are a gift. We did not plan, arrange, or have any control in making our births happen. We ...

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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. Our lives are a gift. We did not plan, arrange, or have any control in making our births happen. We ...
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, a handbook of healing tools to help us through the fraught times of 2020—and beyond. In a delightfully honest and personal conversation, she shares her personal experience ...
10.17.2020 Everyday Buddhism 50 - The Social Dilemma and Otherness In this episode I take a Buddhist view on the spell we've fallen under—and it is the spell of a self-involved culture, swallowed by social media and focused on the hatred of "the other." We are largely living in a ...
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! Mindfulness and meditation are practices of deliberate attention that can create a spacious awareness of what is and help us escape the narrow box ...
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. We talk about 6 action steps we can take to reach deep within ourselves. They are: - Waking up to our faith or true entrusting ...
07.27.2020 Everyday Buddhism 45 - We're All in the Same Storm But Not in the Same Boat Join me as I share how I am taking personal action despite living in our current reality of uncertainty. As Gregg Krech reminds us "Everyone is dealing with losses but ultimately it's an individual thing." Do you have questions on ...
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, who currently mentors seekers in their quest to awaken. Christiane talks about how 40 years of meditation and studying Buddhist scriptures didn’t help her deal with debilitating fear when ...
05.11.2020 Everyday Buddhism 42 - How Not to Feel Like a Victim As we make our way through the global Covid-19 pandemic we see humbling examples of courage and compassion. And we also see examples of people responding in fear and anger. The pandemic is teaching us about interdependence, change, and impermanence ...
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 ...
03.28.2020 Everyday Buddhism 40 - Covid-19 Mind Protection The whole world is afraid. A tiny piece of biological stuff brought the world to its knees. A contagion or plague of this level is not new to the world but new to most of us living today. There has ...
02.16.2020 Everyday Buddhism 39 - Let's Not Talk About Politics There is a view of Buddhism that is idealistic. That it's all about meditating and chanting in an incense-filled room, hidden away from the world. That the peace promised in Buddhism comes from being away from, above, or different from, ...
02.02.2020 Everyday Buddhism 38 - And Yet, And Yet This is a special episode dedicated to the life of our good friend and neighbor—too soon lost. It focuses on the haiku by Issa: "This world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet." Listen as I ...
01.15.2020 Everyday Buddhism 37 - Pragmatic Buddhism with Ken McLeod Join me for a special episode and conversation with Ken McLeod, author, translator, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. Whether you're new to Buddhism, or just intrigued, or a long-time practitioner, spending some time with Ken's work will shake off the ...
12.31.2019 Everyday Buddhism 36 - Random New Year's Thoughts 2020 seems like something out of Sci-Fi. But here we are. And from my perspective, we ARE living in what was the sci-fi from my childhood. It all depends on where you stand—your perspective. From where you sit, you may ...
12.08.2019 Everyday Buddhism 35 - Bodhi Day: The Light is Inside! In this 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. Shakyamuni's enlightenment experience is ours. He proclaimed, "I and the ...
11.23.2019 Everyday Buddhism 34 - The Book is Here! Book Launch Special In this special episode, I celebrate with podcast listeners the publication of my book Everyday Buddhism: Real-Life Buddhist Teachings & Practices for Real Change. The book officially launches on Monday, November 26th. l'll share a bit about why I wrote ...
10.29.2019 Everyday Buddhism 33 - Halloween: What Scares You? What Masks Do You Wear? In this episode, we'll look at the pagan origination of Halloween, Tibetan Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, and Halloween from an Everyday Buddhism perspective. What scares you? What do you not want to look at? Do you show yourself as someone ...
09.28.2019 Everyday Buddhism 32 - Buddhism, Baseball, and Life Join me and round the bases for a look at baseball as a metaphor for the Buddhist teaching of the Three Marks of Existence: Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and the lack of a discrete self. Life, like baseball, is a team sport. ...
09.14.2019 Everyday Buddhism 31 - The Boundless Heart: Bodhicitta In this episode, we talk about Bodhicitta. Bodhicitta characterizes the path of a Mahayana practitioner. Bodhicitta is compassion working with a mind awakened by right view. We'll examine how to use the Four Bodhisattva Vows to supercharge Right Intention with ...
08.04.2019 Everyday Buddhism 30 - The Buddha Sat Right Here with Dena Moes In this special guest episode, join me in a conversation with Dena Moes, the author of the book The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal. Sample a taste of Dena's award-winning book that is equal ...
07.28.2019 Everyday Buddhism 29 - Right Speech is Right Listening In this special podcast, we'll revisit the topic of "Right Speech" through a reflection and practice tip from my upcoming book. We'll focus on how right speech depends more on listening than speaking. Speaking is dualistic. Listening is a non-dual ...
07.01.2019 Everyday Buddhism 28 - June Weddings, Relationships, and Perfection? What is a perfect day? A perfect relationship? Join me for a discussion of perfection in a podcast featuring a wedding Dharma talk. Stay until the end to respond to the challenge of making your own vows, allowing for the ...
06.12.2019 Everyday Buddhism 27 - Right Mindfulness and Meditation In this episode we'll talk about Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration. Studies show that meditation seems to cease the activity of the lobes in the brain that determine where self ends and non-self begins. Meaning, meditation can dissolve our sense ...
04.22.2019 Everyday Buddhism 26 - Why Sangha? Bringing Buddhism to Life The Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. I think many connect with the jewel or treasure aspect of the Buddha and Dharma, but Sangha? It is Sangha that moves Buddhism beyond a study or philosophy to something lived and alive. ...
03.23.2019 Everyday Buddhism 25 - Pureland Buddhism with Satya Robyn In the 4th of the "talking with my teachers" series, I am talking with Rev. Satya Robyn, a priest in the Amida Order, about how the whole of messy humanity is met by the divine when we relax our sense ...
03.14.2019 Everyday Buddhism 24 - Appreciating Life Through Death Meditation Meditating on death is a traditional Buddhist practice. In this podcast, we'll talk about how thinking about our own and others' death can help us live more fully. I offer an Everyday-Buddhism approach to death meditation that does not include ...
02.18.2019 Everyday Buddhism 23 - Japanese Psychology and Buddhism with Gregg Krech The "Eastern Way" of psychology offers a profoundly different paradigm than Western psychology. Join me as a talk with Gregg Krech, one of the leading authorities on Japanese Psychology in North America, about this difference. Using the Buddhist concept of ...
01.26.2019 Everyday Buddhism 22 - Release Your Cows In a listener-requested podcast I relate how the story of releasing cows from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book "No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering", helped me find freedom from suffering over a series of minor personal losses and ...
01.05.2019 Everyday Buddhism 21 - Tibetan Buddhism: There is Only One Dharma Tibetan Buddhism seems mysterious, intriguing, and sometimes scary. In this episode I talk with Frank Howard of the White Lotus Buddhist Center in Rochester, New York—continuing my series of "Talking with My Teachers"—who explains that it's not as mysterious as ...
12.20.2018 Everyday Buddhism 20 - A Bright Dawn: Conversation with Rev. Koyo Kubose In this first of a special series of episodes dedicated to honoring my teachers, I have a conversation with the spiritual head of The Bright Dawn Center of Oneness Buddhism, Rev. Koyo Kubose. It is with Bright Dawn and my ...
12.08.2018 Everyday Buddhism 19 - Bodhi Day Special: The Grace of Light Join me for a special episode in honor of Bodhi Day, celebrating Shakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment. The long nights of December are marked by numerous celebrations using light as a symbol. Light symbolizes a rekindling of the spiritual impulse and a ...
12.04.2018 Everyday Buddhism 18 - The 5 Precepts: Gentle Guides Not Commandments In this episode I'll talk about my uneasy relationship with the 5 Precepts. Do they produce more questions—and more confusion—than answers? Clearing up ignorance is what alleviates suffering. This requires working with ourselves on a very deep and intimate level—honestly ...
11.10.2018 Everyday Buddhism 17 - Radically Happy: Conversation with Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon Join me in a conversation with Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon, authors of the just-released book, "Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind." Ancient wisdom meets modern methods as we explore the universal search for well-being, for happiness.
10.21.2018 Everyday Buddhism 16 - Simple Awareness and the Many Forms of Meditation When we think of Buddhism, we think of meditation. In this episode I will take you on a tour of the many ways to meditate. But at the core of the episode is the simple awareness that all meditation rests ...
10.09.2018 Everyday Buddhism 15 - A Buddha Belongs to the World Join me as I explore the very earthly foundations of Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama asked the Earth to confirm his enlightenment, his Buddhahood. He did not ask for help from heavenly beings. He asked the Earth. In this episode, we'll reflect ...
09.23.2018 Everyday Buddhism 14 - Protesting? What's in Your Mind? In the first "Ask Me Anything" Episode, I respond to a listener's question about Buddhist insight into protesting. "What's in your mind?" Does your urge for speech or action come from an intention of anger or intention of peace? Can ...
09.04.2018 Everyday Buddhism 13 - Right Effort: Joyful Balance In this podcast, we'll look at the sixth part of The Eightfold Path: Right Effort. Is your energy, your efforts making you more content ... and making the people around you more content? If not, maybe you need to bring ...
08.26.2018 Everyday Buddhism 12 - MORE Koans: Bringing Them Into the Everyday In this podcast, we'll look more closely at koans, poetry, koan practice in general ... and we'll see how to work with one koan, specifically ... to start your practice. Koan practice IS for everyday life! How can you use ...
08.20.2018 Everyday Buddhism 11 - Koans: Reaching the Limit of Thought Up for a fun challenge? In this podcast, I talk about my love of Zen Koans, as one of the rarest practices for 'messing with' your conceptual mind and shaking your false trust in the stability of what we think ...
08.12.2018 Everyday Buddhism 10 - Right Livelihood is What You Think About What You Do In this podcast, we'll look at how work is THE golden opportunity to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Practicing "Right Livelihood" means practicing Right Mindfulness. Do we honestly try to take care of our co-workers and customers? ...
08.05.2018 Everyday Buddhism 9 - Right Action is not REaction Sometimes NOT speaking and NOT acting is the best possible action, he RIGHT Action. We don’t have to act immediately, just because we have an internal reaction. We can pause, not act, breathe. We can watch this urge to act ...
07.28.2018 Everyday Buddhism 8 - Mindfulness Discussion with Meg Salter Mindfulness has become mainstream, but it is still confusing or unreachable for some who try to begin a mindfulness practice. Meg Salter takes the "woo-woo" out of it. Mindfulness is not some magic light bulb that goes off and you're ...
07.22.2018 Everyday Buddhism 7 - Right Speech: "Zip It!" Maybe "Right Speech" should be more like "No Speech." Talking. We're always talking. Even when we're listening we're talking ... mentally creating our responses. And, now, with endless social media forums and "drive-by" Twitter and Instagram talking, it's a constant ...
07.14.2018 Everyday Buddhism 6 - Got Intention? AKA How to Be Less of a Jerk In this podcast we're going to talk about "Right Intention" or how to be less of a jerk. This requires action ... not just thinking. We typically have trouble self-correcting, because we do things habitually or from a reactionary pattern. ...
07.07.2018 Everyday Buddhism 5 - Discussion with Noah Rasheta In this podcast I'm talking with Noah Rasheta of the Secular Buddhism podcast and author of the books: Secular Buddhism and No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions About Core Buddhist Teachings. Noah has a great story to ...
06.30.2018 Everyday Buddhism 4 - What Does Buddhism Say About...? In this episode, I'm going to talk about "the Buddhist answer to everything. And the answer is: "Maybe." Buddhism is experiential. You must practice to find out the answer. You must apply it to understand it. You need to ask ...
06.21.2018 Everyday Buddhism 3 - The Slippery Self In this podcast, we'll look at the Buddhist concept of "No-Self". Where is your "self"? Is it something you can describe? It's hard to describe or identify as a discrete and non-changing thing, yet we sometimes cling to ideas of ...

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