David Gardiner - Buddhist
David Gardiner is an associate professor in the Colorado College Religion department, specializing in Buddhism and religions of China and Japan, and is co-founder and director of BodhiMind Center.Â
âPoliticalâ refers to actions well beyond the activities of elected officials, to include all good work that members of a community do to enhance one anotherâs lives. Thus, âall politics is local.â I pray for more sincere, deep listening. What we hear is conditioned by the sources we choose for information, from electronic and print media to the people with whom we speak. We all have some power to impact our choice of sources to diversify what we can learn. Moreover, we have a responsibility to practice deep listening by temporarily suspending judgment so we can truly learn to understand how other people experience this vast world. I pray that our minds become more still, our ears listen more fully and our hearts expand in compassion accordingly.Â