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friends, on this first day of spring, step outside. breathe deep. allow yourself to connect with & remember the order of nature. it is always moving towards life, towards creation. even, within the context of nature, death is a movement towards more life. this is all the more important, when we have world leaders who are bent on destruction. they are misaligned, they are in disharmony, blind & deluded. we don’t have to be. we as individuals, & collectively, can wake up. wake up to interdependence, to life, to love. may it be so.

~j

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#Spring #SpringEquinox #life #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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may there be more awareness & understanding.

may there be less othering.

may there be less violence, less war, less destruction, less hate, less indifference to the suffering of others.

may we see life is of one piece, love is of one piece, & in our delusion we are destroying whole worlds. 

may we wake up & may hearts open.

~j

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#interdependence #love #RobertThurman #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, and self-control.”

~St. Paul in his letter to the Galatians

what fruit are we bearing?

may we embody such fruit for a world in need. may we, in this time, be discerning. may we practice opening our heart & steadying our mind, to see clearly those who are aligned with, participating in, or provoking cruelty, harm, & destruction. may we, in seeing clearly, be resilient in our love, fierce with our compassion, & wise with our words & action.

~j

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#FruitOfTheSpirit #love #dove #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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prophetic wisdom from the late, great James Baldwin.

he got it – the depth of love, of life, of how to dance in this mystery of BEing.

Jesus said “…whatever you did for one of the least of these…you did for me.”

he got. Buddhists also get it w/ their foundational recognition of our interdependence, indeed, our interbeing w/ all life. the South African philosophy of Ubuntu is another way of saying it as well, “I am because we are.”

do we get it? how can we say we do, if we support a consistent flow of othering, escalation, & violence? i don’t think we get it & we will continue to cycle through violence & pass violence onto our children as a way of un-BEing, wrapped up in a million shiny righteous excuses until we do. may we wake up to our inherent relationship w/ life.

~j

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#Ubuntu #interbeing #love #JamesBaldwin #JinpaLhaga 

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“We’ve entered this new era, and we have to be planning for healing just as carefully as others are planning for destruction.”

~ Omid Safi

the work of healing, of restoration, is the work of love. may we be lovers of this world, lovers in this world, intentionally bringing healing & restoration w/ our words & actions, in the face of the cruelty, violence, & destruction we are bearing witness to.

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#lovers #healers #OmidSafi #MedicineBuddha #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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we cannot bomb our way to peace. regime change doesn’t happen from the air. we are not liberating people when we bomb their civilian infrastructure, hospitals, & schools.

how does one measure success when the definition of measuring itself keeps shifting?

chaos, uncertainty, mass destruction, & mass death will not save people who need saving, or bring peace & security.

~j

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#war #peace #clarity #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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i suspect abandoning fear, greed, lust for power & control, along with not declaring one’s own agenda as a holy war might help. awareness of our interdependence & a commitment to loving our neighbor (spoiler alert – that’s everyone) would have us on the correct & beneficial path.

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#OpenHeart #peace #EleanorRoosevelt #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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may we wake up to see clearly:

how we hold one thing 

is how we hold every thing.

how we care for one person 

is how we care for all people.

that the only profanity 

is how we treat each other 

when we abandon 

our sacredness.

~j

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#sacred #interdependence #LoveThyNeighbor #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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be here now.

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#BeHereNow #presence #LoveThyNeighbor #HarperLee #JinpaLhaga

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the 1st Amendment allows us the right to believe & practice the religion we want, but w/ Christian Nationalism’s ascent into the leadership of our gov’t influencing policy & their obsession w/ Armageddon influencing military action, we are in a very dangerous place. to be clear, it is bad theology & anti-Gospel. here’s a great essay that breaks it down a bit, along w/ sharing the military complaints & links for further depth.

~j

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https://substack.com/@brcremer/note/c-222457065?r=rkfoe&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action