Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday Better Wendy Shinyo Haylett

In this episode I am honored to talk with Satish Kumar, a peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, who has been inspiring global change for more than 50 years. As a child, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Then in his 20s, he undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money, from India to America, for the cause of nuclear disarmament.
Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. Over the decades, he has been the guiding spirit behind a number of internationally respected ecological and educational ventures, as well as a world-renown author and international speaker.
But the focus of today's conversation is his new book, Radical Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves. You will be inspired and uplifted by this conversation with Satish, where he talks about life as a pilgrimage … and the Trinity of soil, soul, and society … How we are "soil beings"… and how activists must become optimists—wonderful inspiration in this age of doom scrolling and climate despair.
Learn more about Satish and the book:
https://www.parallax.org/authors/satish-kumar/
 
https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/
 
Buy the book:
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In this episode, I celebrate May Day with a re-release of Episode 13 of this podcast, Right Effort: Joyful Balance. I originally released the episode for Labor Day 2018. I thought back on it during the last couple of weeks as I struggled to be still and relax, while recovering from oral surgery during the first week of warm weather.
I was restless because, despite the beautiful smells, sounds, and feelings of the NOW of spring around me, I wasn't really there. My attention was on another time where I was accomplishing things on my mental to-do list. I narrate my recent experience trying to understand Right Effort in an intro to the longer episode from 2018.
In this chock-full episode, I review the whole Eightfold Path but focus on ways to create a joyful balance around effort. I talk about the Five Hindrances, especially one of my own battles: restlessness. I think many of you will agree. Even in meditation, we can't wait to "get at it." We are bored while we're working and agitated while relaxing.
Let my restlessness and inability to relax and enjoy the beginning of summer serve as an example for you. A time to pause and consider whether your "efforts" in life are "right"? Are they in balance? Are you trying to be perfect? Are you so consistently acting from the habit of self-perfection and achievement that you're unable to relax?
It all hinges on paying attention; about noticing. That is the hard part. Adjusting your habits isn't as hard. Listen to find ways to help in creating "joyous effort" through "The Five Daily Guidelines" offered by The Bright Dawn Center of Oneness Buddhism:
The Five Daily Guidelines: 5 Daily Guidelines

 
Join me and Bob Unyo Ahlander Sensei, virtually on Zoom, for the first session of the next Introduction to Buddhism Course starting Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 at 7:30PM. Find out more:
Introduction to Buddhism info and registration
 
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Don't miss this fascinating episode where I talk with Cindy Rasicot, an award-winning author of Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter's Spiritual Quest to Thailand and creator of Casual Buddhism, a weekly YouTube series that welcomes people from all walks of life to explore their spiritual practice in conversation with Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni.
The focus of the conversation is Cindy's spiritual life—especially her relationship with Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, the first woman to be ordained in Thailand.
We talk, of course, about Venerable Dhammananda and her amazing and inspirational life journey from academic to activist to spiritual leader ... and about women in Buddhism.
We discuss how Buddhism can be "caught not taught" to be, first, experiential, then conceptual, which is Cindy's experience with Buddhism.
We also talk about the importance of healing the mother-daughter relationship … And the riches of experiencing multiple spiritual traditions, as is modeled by Venerable Dhammananda.
Learn more about Cindy Rasicot and the book:
https://cindyrasicot.com/
 
Buy the book (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3KnnM5s
 
Instagram: https://instagram.com/cindy.rasicot
Facebook: https://facebook.com/cindy.rasicot.author
 
Casual Buddhism YouTube Series:
Casual Buddhism - Youtube.com
 
Casual Buddhism with Wendy Shinyo & Venerable:

https://youtu.be/9jjq_jKnYX8
 
Ted Talk with Venerable Dhammanada:
Ted Talk: Dhammananda Bikkuni, "Empowering Our Potentiality"
 
Learn more about Venerable Dhammananda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammananda_Bhikkhuni
 
Venerable Dhammananda's Songdhammakalyani Monastery:
https://www.thaibhikkhunis.com/en/
 

 
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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: Walking The Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion.  Among many other things, we talk about:
* The needy Cookie Monster in him, myself, and maybe many of you.
* The power of perspective in helping you to recognize when your old stories resurface.
* The 3 kinds of minds: Grandmotherly Mind, Great Mind, and Joyful Mind.
* Self-clinging as a deep form of stealing.
* And how everything, everywhere is a  "place of practice."
 
I was thrilled to have this conversation with Koshin. Keep listening and you'll know why … you can actually hear the twinkle in his eyes and his beaming smile.
 
 
Learn more about Koshin and the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care:

 
About Koshin: https://zencare.org/sensei-koshin-paley-ellison/
 
New York Zen Center: https://zencare.org/
 
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-york-zen-center-for-contemplative-care/

 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nyzencenter
 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@newyorkzencenterforcontemp4985

 
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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 Buddhism" where we are planning a series of chats with our sangha leaders, our sangha members, and special guests. In the first chat, join a conversation with Wendy Shinyo Sensei, the host of the Everyday Buddhism podcast and leader of the Everyday Sangha; Bradley Jinaiyo Sensei and Terry Hosken, practice leaders of the Everyday Sangha.
 
In this episode we talk about what Everyday Buddhism is all about and the benefit of finding community with a sangha. If you would like to ask a question or suggest a subject for us to discuss on upcoming "chat with buddhism" casts, you can do so by leaving me a voice mail on the everyday buddhism website or send an email. Go to www.everyday-buddhism.com/contact to send am email or click on the tab on the sidebar to leave us a voice mail message that is no longer than 2 minutes.
 
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https://youtu.be/L1cydaz03fg

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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 the popular What Could Go Right? weekly newsletter and is co-host of the What Could Go Right? podcast. She was formerly the executive editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and the editor of two books from Wisdom Publications.
 
In a wide-ranging conversation, we discuss how we can train our minds to not overreact to the negative and scary things that are happening in the world so that we might respond with equanimity rather than join the chorus of divisiveness and despair.
 
Among many other things, we talk about the news, social media, polarization … and a non-grasping way of thinking about progress as not a utopia just around the corner but more a noticing of the gradual arc of improvement in people's lives by focusing less on the click-bait negative headlines and more on what is going right.
 
 
Learn more about The Progress Network:

 
Website: https://theprogressnetwork.org/
 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/progressntwrk
 
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/progressntwrk/?hl=en
 
LinkedIn:
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TikTok:
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YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI2_M_Y7-PyJurGXbTuThtw
 
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