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Tricycle Daily Dharma November 5, 2012

Politics on the Path

One way to read the injunction for Right Conduct, an essential part of the Eightfold Path, is to see it as calling us—as citizens—to translate the dharma into specific acts of social responsibility. In a democratic republic, that surely means voting for those initiatives that we believe will reduce suffering and violence, ignorance and hatred—and the very divisions fueled by politics itself.

- Charles Johnson, "Accepting the Invitation"

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