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Common Good
Posted 10/26/06

Recording from a prison workshop at Hardee Correctional Institution in Florida. Regulations normally prevent the taping of Bo's prison talks, so this is a rare opportunity to experience.

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About Human Kindness Foundation

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:

Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not

--Bo Lozoff

The Human Kindness Foundation, founded by Bo and Sita Lozoff, is a non-profit organization which stresses a way of life based upon three common principles taught by the great sages of all religions: Simple living, a dedication to service, and a commitment to personal spiritual practice.

Besides its internationally respected Prison-Ashram Project, begun in 1973, the Foundation sponsors and schedules Bo Lozoff's talks, workshops and concerts. Bo has led events in hundreds of prisons, hospitals, churches, universities and spiritual centers around the globe. He is also an award-winning singer/songwriter whose performances and CDs, along with his books, tapes and videos, provide a significant amount of our funding.

Bo often contributes the lead article for our free newsletter, 'A Little Good News,' which is sent three times per year to approximately 50,000 readers.

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"In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a "soft" issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas -- kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

"Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share. That idea is at the heart of everything the Human Kindness Foundation does."

-- Bo Lozoff

Please visit BPF.org for more information about becoming a member of The Buddhist Peace Fellowship.