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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

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#fascism #antifascism #HCR

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

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midweek metta

#Metta #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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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.

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#sangha #love #ThomasMerton #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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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

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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

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#bodhisattvas #LoveThyNeighbor #lightAndLove #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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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

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#nonviolence #LoveThyNeighbor #ThomasMerton #JinpaLhaga 

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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

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#LoveThyNeighbor #FierceCompassion #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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care.

care about the death.

care about the violence.

care about the harm.

care about the trauma.

care about the inhumanity.

care about the justification of death, violence, harm, trauma, & inhumanity by this administration.

care, before we lose ourselves into the hell being created by people stuck in delusion, greed, & aggression.

caring, is open-heartedness.

caring, is loving our neighbor.

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#care #empathy #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“No one lives outside the walls of this sacred place, existence.”

~ St. Francis of Assisiif our spiritual practice doesn’t continually challenge us to open our hearts in ever expanding circles of inclusion, & less exclusion, then our spiritual practice is either failing us, or we are failing it. if our spiritual practice doesn’t bring us closer into intimacy & union with love, then we need to find a new spiritual practice – & yes, this sacred circle of inclusion includes the immigrant, the trans person, the disabled person, the poor & hungry, & every other category of person & life that is currently being attacked through both rhetoric & policy.

~j

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#love #sacred #StFrancisOfAssisi #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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the authoritarian wants unity by conformity, surrounds their vision with only their uniform view of who, how, where, why, what things should be, filtered through their delusion. a vision devoid of the diversity of art, beauty, life itself! the authoritarian vision in its narrow blindness, is a vision aligned with despairing darkness & death. 

the saints & bodhisattvas, on the other hand, aligned with life, are diverse in their manifestation, their embodiments of & devotion to love, & their benevolent beauty. varied in tradition, varied in their moment of time, sprinkled throughout known history, keeping the light on, inspiring artists, & hope in the hearts of the movers & shakers & sitters, & all who seek to be in union with Love, & of benefit for a world in need.

~j

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#saints #bodhisattvas #CSLewis #JinpaLhaga #JMWart