Mike Slott
ContributorMike Slott is a long-time political and labor movement activist who has focused on exploring the intersection of a secular approach to the dharma with a socially engaged Buddhism oriented toward systemic change. He is a practice leader of two New York Insight sanghas: the New Jersey sangha and the recently formed Secular sangha.
Opinion
August 13, 2024
What’s Missing from Left Politics? Thoughts of a Western Secular Buddhist
An excerpt from DSA member Mike Slott's forthcoming book about faulty assumptions that appear in left political activism and how Buddhist insights and values can help correct them.
Organizing
November 9, 2023
“Right livelihood” at $17.3 million a year?
As long-time left activists and current DSA members, we have found mindfulness meditation and the Buddhist ethical values of care and compassion to be essential supports for sustaining our activism in the labor movement and other political movements. We see mindfulness and a secular form of Buddhism as offering valuable insights and as complementary to the radical