A Special Free Present Moment Event for all Elephant community. Elephant’s 19th Anniversary celebration event:

Join Elephant’s 19th birthday party with special guests, and get some hard-won mindful business advice from founder Waylon Lewis. ⁠
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Elephant’s 19 years old. We’re stronger than we’ve ever been before.

But Facebook continues to smush indie media, mindful community. Their algorithm is tighter than a bleep-bleep’s butt.

Will we make it to 20 years old? That’s not up to us. My caring team will work hard.

It’s up to you.

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…today, right now, if you value a community with helpful advice, inspiring stories, respectful debate and disagreement. Help us pay our staff and top writers and complete our “Ecosystem,” which will make Elephant fully independent of social media/Big Tech (yes, we’ve got a plan).

If you don’t, that’s fine, too. It’s up to us to earn your love. But we may not be here, and we’re one of the last great indie bulwarks against the Big Social tech monopoly.

Read our Founder & Editor-in-Chief Waylon’s never-ending story about our 19 years, here. 

A little 19th Birthday Best-of Present…for you.

Here’s a collection of (some of, so hard to choose!) our most little-bit-life-changing articles and videos from over the years:

• The Most Important Article on Elephant, Ever: Maitri.
• A Reminder of Elephant’s Mission: Journalism vs. mere Blogging.
• Why Lying Broken in a Pile on Your Bedroom Floor is a Good Idea.
• Best Buddhist Books for Beginners with Simple Meditation Instruction.
• Eight Things I Learned from 50 Naked People.
• How to Meditate: The Dathun Letter, via Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
• The Future of Yoga.
• Busyness is Laziness.
• The Good Mother.
• A Living Worth Scraping.
• The Buddhist Rule about Worrying.
• The Five Buddha Families.
• Spiritual Wisdom from an Idiot.
• This Poster Might Just Change Your Life.
• The Cocoon.
• Buddhist Kitchen Sink Wisdom.
• A Positivity Manifesto.
• 10 Must Have Buys for the Spiritual Materialist.
• Love is Selfish.
• Introduction to Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Crazy Wisdom Buddhist guru; founder of Naropa, Shambhala, Vajradhatu)
• Waylon & Blake’s Best Mindful Business Books & Resources for Entrepreneurs.
• Pema Chodron: How to do Tonglen, a meditation practice for difficult times.
• Buddhadharma In Everyday Life. Lojong Slogan: Drive all Blames into One.
• Hierarchy, Complaint, Gossip & Communication in an Enlightened Society. ~ Chögyam Trungpa
• Lha, Nyen & Lu: an Enlightened way to Organize your Life.

Read our Founder & Editor-in-Chief Waylon’s never-ending story about our 19 years, here.