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a week from tonight, results for the 2026 midterms will begin rolling in. i voted & got my ballot in last week. please vote early in person, or utilize drop off, or if you have time to mail in – do it! if you vote election day, double check your polling location & stay in line. may we all exercise this sacred practice, privilege, right, & responsibility. may we do so for the most vulnerable, motivated by love & compassion, w/ awareness, clarity, & wisdom. may we do so to push back against the cruelty, harm, & destruction we are seeing. may we do so for love of neighbor, the poor & hungry, the sick, the imprisoned, for the immigrant, for trans people & all marginalized people being attacked, who are all our neighbors, all who we are called to love.

let’s begin the reset we need toward decency, equity & justice.

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#VoteBlue #MidtermElection #democracy #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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more & more i am convinced that the “narrow gate” mentioned in the book of Matthew within the Bible, is love. if for no other reason than love is the one thing the vast majority of us seem unwilling to choose, embody, practice & do fully without exclusion. we work tirelessly to carve out biases & caveats to loving our neighbor, supported by a myriad of excuses why certain individuals, groups, & categories should be excluded & cast out. it is far easier to name & target scapegoats, than doing the work of love. we fail to see clearly that a love that isn’t inclusive of all, that doesn’t see all as our neighbor, isn’t really love, at least not fully or wholly – or holy. we should ask ourselves, if we can’t recognize love now – in all people, groups, categories that make us uncomfortable or don’t meet our limited & deluded understanding – then how will we recognize love later? all of the caveats we create are constructed & are the stuff of ego, driven by fear, originating in delusion. love is of one piece & love is the way.

love is the way, & may we choose it over & over again for a world in need.

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#LoveIsTheWay #NarrowGate #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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when we practice loving-kindness meditation, something very real & practical is happening. when we practice w/ intention & a desire to be of benefit, we are shifting our own relationship to the world through the practicing of working w/ & opening our own heart. this can have very tangible benefit in our relationship to ourselves, loved ones, strangers & even so-called enemies. this shift in how we relate can have a ripple effect into our systems, structures & institutions. we also begin to see the power we have in our words & actions, & how that power can harm or be of benefit. loving-kindness practice helps us to align w/ love & be of benefit to a world in need.

as our awareness opens, we may recognize that it is not possible to practice loving-kindness while also aligning w/ & supporting fascism, & all of the cruelty & harm that comes w/ it.

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#metta #lovingkindness #vote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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so many are facing so much right now. collectively we are facing so much right now. the weight of it is existential. the hill is steep before us & the road is narrow. open-heartedness & love are the way through, embodied in the warmth & tenderness of caring for each other, in service toward one another for the benefit of all. we are called to be bodhisattvas, all of us, in one way or another, in ways that meet the moment before us, however we are able. this is a time for bodhisattvas to rise. may we rise in & with love.

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#love #bodhisattvas #RoshiPatEnkyoOHara #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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hello friends! want to share for those who may have last minute need or could benefit, i have 10 free downloadable simple poster art for the #NoKings rally.

*see link below – two options for download – Drop Box & Patreon post with public access for those who don’t have a Drop Box account.

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#SitDownRiseUp #ResistFascism #LoveThyNeighbor #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

https://linktr.ee/jaysenwaller

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“Love is not passive; it goes out to meet the other. Being a neighbor is not determined by physical or social proximity, but by the decision to love.”

~ Pope Leo XIV

love is a choice.

love is a practice.

choose to love.

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#love #ChooseToLove #PopeLeoXIV #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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bravery is a practice.

bravery is love in action.

bravery is one breath at a time,

one foot in front of the other,

one word following another.

bravery is needed in this time.

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#bravery #love #calligraphy #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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in a time when cruelty is practiced in rhetoric, embodied in policy, & promoted at rallies & performed for cameras, it can feel risky to prioritize & practice compassion. but, how else can we embody the call to love, & if we don’t do it who will?

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#compassion #love #LamaZopaRinpoche #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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the tyrant will sow division and conflict, but this fundamental truth remains, we are in this together. and it is in loving each other, our neighbors, and those cast out, that we will find our way forward. love manifests in our words and actions, in our relationship to/with other life. how else can love be known?

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#interdependence #LoveThyNeighbor #RainerMariaRilke #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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yesterday, Trump in a speech, whether joking or not joking, suggested it would be a small price to pay if Iran were to take out Los Angeles or San Diego w/ a nuclear weapon. the people attending applauded, cheered & laughed. who have we become to excuse, dismiss – or worse – celebrate such behavior? 

though in AZ, San Diego will always be home for me & Los Angeles is filled with chosen family. even so, Trump’s comments should elicit condemnation regardless of city. frankly though, this moment doesn’t say much about Trump. he is who he is & some of us have seen this clearly since 2015. this moment says more about us, both individually & collectively.

where is the line? when is cruelty too much cruelty? harm too much harm? destruction too much destruction? what will be the cost for some to finally abandon Trump? why are some so willing instead to abandon moral & ethical ground for him? our loyalty should be to love, to loving our neighbor, not to an individual. we own our actions & our support of others’ actions. Trump has shown who he is consistently & repeatedly. the deeper, perhaps more pressing question for this moments is, “who are we?” who we choose to be in this moment has real consequences. may we choose love.

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#integrity #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy