A selection from our upcoming book, Wisdom in Buddhism - from the chapter on conversation Bringing Light As alluded to in the introduction of this book, a dark age has descended upon us. We are in a time of social and environmental degradation. We are witnessing a coarsening of words and muddled thinking. We are in a time of war, although, to be fair, humans always seem to be in a time of war, but the various forms of war we can wage now are greater than ever before, with