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from song “Hardliners” 

on album “Into the Dark Unknown”

whatever the situation, wherever we find ourselves to be, no matter the challenge of the moment, we have the ability, responsibility, & privilege, to keep loving, to keep choosing love over & over again. we can take refuge in this choosing of love. we can take refuge in the spaciousness of love itself, & in our awareness that we are contributing to love & to what is beneficial & needed in this world. 

~j

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#love #path #practice #HolcombeWaller #JinpaLhaga

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I will love the light 

for it shows me the way, 

yet I will endure the darkness 

for it shows me the stars.      

~ 

Og Mandino 

sun, moon, stars.

wherever we find light, may it strengthen & buoy our resolve to be love in this world.

~j

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#love #light #OgMandino #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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path.

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#love #courage #path #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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love is being in it for the long arc. 

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#bodhisattvas #TheLongArc #NormanFischer #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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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

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#light #compassion #ChogyamTrungpa #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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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