Venerable Master Hsing Yun is founder of the Fo Guang Shan, an order of Buddhists dedicated to making Humanistic Buddhism useful and relevant to today's spiritual seekers. The author has written many books including Let Go, Move On, a collection of 80 columns written for Merit Times. This volume consists of a series of lectures on the difficult and profound social issues facing individuals around the world.

"Life is vital, flexible, and versatile," Hsing Yun writes, and we must meet its challenges with love, kindness, compassion, and generosity. This was the way of the Buddha. His life was so filled with compassion that a drunken elephant once gave up its animal nature and began to weep upon seeing the Buddha. A killer dropped his knife in the presence of this calm and centered one.

The Buddhist tradition is organized around respecting and caring for all of life. These principles provide a foundation for the discussion of issues such as cloning, animal testing, suicide, euthanasia, organ donation, problems of aging, hospice care, and death. This is a very valuable contribution to the discussion of social ethics in our time.