Excerpts from Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place
Melvin McLeod (editor) – Wisdom Publications

This is not your typical political book. It's not written at a fever pitch, it doesn't use a good/bad binary, and it doesn't tout partisan policies. Instead, this timely collection addresses the less-discussed but more important questions about politics: What insight does religion have to offer politics? How can we as concerned citizens move beyond the particulars of legislation and party affiliation, and take direct action? How, amid divisive and challenging times, can personal growth and effective advocacy take place together? In short, Mindful Politics offers the persectives of 34 important authors and thinkers on how each of us, right now, can make the world a better place.

Previous installments of Wisdom of the Week

Keep Me in Your Heart A While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri – Dojo Mike Port

The Essence of Zen – Sekkei Harada

The Attention Revolution – B. Alan Wallace

Food for the Heart – Ajahn Chah

Never Turn Away – Rigdzin Shikpo

The State of Mind Called Beautiful – Sayadaw U Pandita

Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Ordinary Wisdom, Sakya Pandita’s Treasury of Good Advice – Sakya Pandita (John Davenport, translator)

Mud & Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui – translated by Arthur Braverman