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love your neighbor.

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#LoveYourNeighbor #nature #BWphotography #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“Every person’s concept of god is too small.”

~ Sir John Templeton

humility before the Great Mystery, the Great Love.

may we maintain, as it is said in Zen, “a beginner’s mind” & the humility of a child, as Jesus instructed his disciples in the Gospel of Matthew. though they may be precious & beneficial for us on our path, let us not hold too tightly to our personal, revelatory experiences in life, in prayer, & meditation. rather, may we have the awareness & wisdom to know that the Great Love meets everyone where they are, in the way they need, when they are ready to hear, see, & allow their heart to open to it. may we do the same, instruments of love, meeting all where they are with warmth of heart, shining light into darkness.

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#God #UltimateReality #love #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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though much of what we see around us paints a dark picture for the near & perhaps long future, may we remember that it isn’t the whole story, & certainly not the end of the story, a story each of us has a part in writing. may we write our part with love.

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#love #PlantingSeeds #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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happy & blessed Autumn Equinox friends. may the equal parts light & dark, be a reminder of balance. may the inevitability of impermanence & change be a reminder that even tyrants, empires, & other oppressive forces can’t last. so let us plant ourselves in love which has no beginning & no end.

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#AutumnEquinox #Fall #enso #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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we can allow our suffering to open our hearts, to widen our awareness of others who also suffer. this strengthens our ability to empathize with others. our suffering can be an empathetic bridge to connecting with others & recognizing our shared experience in this life. when we see each other fully like this with open, empathetic hearts, we see allies instead of enemies. we can see this in groups like Mothers’ Call, made up of Israel’s Women Wage Peace & in the Palestinian women’s movement, Women of the Sun. mothers, tired of seeing their children die, connecting with other mothers tired of seeing their children die due to violent conflict. maybe all of these male leaders should take a seat & follow the lead of mothers.

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#suffering #empathy #love #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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when will our hearts no longer be ruled by tyrants & their manipulative mosaic of lies, but by the love found within the depths of our hearts, that is of one piece & the source of all things?

we know in our hearts that bombing children is wrong. we know starving children is wrong. forcing them into migration is wrong. we know that caging children & separating them from their families is wrong. we know withholding needed medical & food aid from children is wrong. we know that sex trafficking children is wrong. we know that normalizing of such atrocities is wrong. so why do we continue to accept & excuse all the blather for these atrocities, from leaders who have the power to choose otherwise?

it’s nonsense. for the sake of so many suffering, for the sake of our humanity – of our own souls, we can’t continue to fall for it. there is no liberation without collective liberation. there is no true, whole, authentic love that excludes anyone. love is either all inclusive or it is not truly & wholely (or holy!) love. if God is love then God is love for all. otherwise, we have fallen to our knees for the god of tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, & whatever else our egos construct. may we be free from the delusion of separateness that says we can love in pieces, love with bias, love with exclusion, love in fear, & love while marginalizing, targeting, oppressing, killing, & destroying.

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#GazaAndWestBank #Sudan #Congo #USA #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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we have a rough road ahead.

prepare your heart.

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#OpenHeart #practice #haiku #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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please take the time, only 10 minutes, to listen to HCR’s recent post regarding the threat to midterm elections, retired conservative judge Michael Luttig’s recent op-ed, & convention remarks by House Speaker Johnson. i appreciate HCR’s sober voice, which only emphasizes for me the reality of the threat. it also serves as all the more reason to vote, vote early, & vote en masse. may wisdom arise, may hearts open, may democracy prevail.

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Apple Podcast link:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/letters-from-an-american/id1730358737?i=1000789376596

YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/i4fs9gaECCw

imagine being the richest person in the world. so rich you could live on a billion $ a year for 1000 years & this is what you spend your money on. not hunger or poverty or the unhoused, not research to cure diseases or assist w/ health care. AND you were pivotal in cutting a program (USAID which did help the poor, hungry, & sick) resulting in 700,000 people dying from lack of food & meds already – 500,000 of whom have been children.
we have lost the plot.
may hearts open. 🙏🏼

https://truthout.org/articles/elon-musk-spends-100-million-on-anti-trans-ads-targeting-dems-in-midterm-races/

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may it be so.

for the sake of this world, the vulnerable, the marginalized & targeted, those whose sacredness & inherent dignity have been ignored & dismissed, & all life here without exception, may it be so.

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#metta #lovingkindness #JinpaLhaga #JMWart