reflect your light…

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“Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things.” 

~

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

shine on, dear friends. the world needs your light, your kindness, your compassion, & loving heart.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#light #compassion #ChogyamTrungpa #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

fascism…

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in a time when our own government has labeled anyone on the progressive left engaged in protest through speech & action, anyone who protests the consuming brutality of ICE tactics, & attacks on individual minority communities, education, healthcare, & food assistance programs, & the arts, as “Antifa” which is an  abbreviation for antifascist, it seems worthy to understand what fascism is & what it looks like. if our government is asking us to be against those who are against fascism, then we better understand what fascism is & abandon such selective amnesia as to forget that our own ancestors & military fought against fascism in World War II.

HCR lays it all out with facts & historical perspective in one of her latest posts.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#fascism #antifascism #HCR

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/letters-from-an-american/id1730358737?i=1000778095727

sangha…

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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We find it with another.”

~ Thomas Merton

sangha.

community.

relationship.

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#sangha #love #ThomasMerton #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

inherent value…

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to all who are being & are feeling marginalized & targeted during this time – in some cases by the highest echelons of power, government, & law enforcement – may these words from beloved James Baldwin, be a reminder of what is true. may you know your inherent value & sacredness.

~j

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#power #sacredness #JamesBaldwin #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

light & love…

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there are people, in this time, who see clearly & are doing the work needed. people loving their neighbors, willing to be in solidarity with those who are suffering, willing to stand up & speak out. who would think such engagement could be dangerous in a democracy?

yet, with the current administration, it is.  still, there are those who are answering the call of their heart & conscience, answering the call to love.

may we be those people.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#bodhisattvas #LoveThyNeighbor #lightAndLove #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

be disturbed…

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may our hearts continue to be disturbed by the violence we see, that we may be moved through & by love to compassion, to speak out against cruelty & harm, to put the love for our neighbor into word & action, so that we may be aligned with life & keep our collective humanity.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#nonviolence #LoveThyNeighbor #ThomasMerton #JinpaLhaga 

melting ice with our love…

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may the fierce fire of love & compassion, which resides in our open hearts, ready & willing to be of benefit to our neighbor without exception, melt the most frozen of ice.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#LoveThyNeighbor #FierceCompassion #JinpaLhaga #JMWart