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if any of us claim to be Christian, we should not align w/ cruelty under the cross. it was wrong during the crusades, it was wrong during the inquisition, it was wrong during the forced conversion & assimilation of Indigenous & Native peoples, it was wrong when bombing abortion clinics, it is still wrong today when used to justify marginalization, oppression, violence, cruelty, harm, & destruction. these are not the Way of Jesus, the Christ. they are the way of empire. if we have any awareness & wisdom when reading Jesus‘ words, we see who he aligned with, who he lifted up, & who he attended to. it was with those who suffer, those cast out, those at the bottom. it wasn’t with empire.

~j

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#Jesus #Christ #nonviolence #OpenHeart #love #tenderness #FatherGregoryBoyle #JinpaLhaga 

today is the 250th Anniversary of the Army’s founding, by the Second Continental Congress in 1775.

setting aside the vanity parade by a would be dictator in DC, i’m grateful for the hundreds of years of service & sacrifice the Army & its veterans have given us, including my grandfather Albert Lass, Sr. who served in WWII, fighting fascism abroad. may we honor his & others’ sacrifice by fighting the arising fascism here. No Kings! 

~j

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#army #WWII #veterans #service #democracy #NoFascism #NoDictators #NoKings

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nonviolent protest is an act of love – of fierce compassion. showing up in whatever way we can, in solidarity with those who have been targeted & harmed, is a courageous display of empathy & compassion, which is love in action. this moment is calling for us to be love in action.

~j

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#NoKingsDay #NoKings #NoFascism #prodemocracy #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #love #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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Rise, dear friends, with your authenticity, your uniqueness, your beauty, your courage, your intelligence, your creativity, your awareness, your wisdom, your open-heartedness, your empathy, your tenderness, your compassion, your light and love. our world needs us. being mindful of our actions, may we protest nonviolently & non-aggressively, even while being strong & steadfast with fierce compassion. there’s no reason to give this administration any more excuses to escalate & be violent. though i have little doubt they won’t be so or do so anyway, but that is their shame to carry, the shame of those who align with cruelty rather than love, who have fallen from life and into an ideology of nihilism and death. so align with life and possibility, and be love, dear friends. be aware, mindful, clear in thought and open in heart.

our world needs us.

Rise.

~j

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#NoFascism #NoKings #Rise #RiseUp #Love #FierceCompassion #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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need a poster or sign for Saturday’s NO KINGS protest?

i’m once again giving away this protest poster. feel free to follow link, download, & print 👍🏼

on behalf of each other & our democracy, may we rise up in a unified voice declaring NO KINGS! 

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#NoKings #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsMarch #democracy #liberty #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #ProtestArt

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7hbw1fy77nquzhis1kmkp/NO-KINGS-PROTEST-art-print.png?rlkey=seturlmm3rlncj6ufbstygi1l&e=1&st=po6h8gwi&dl=0

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it is not strength we are seeing, but fragility & fear, by a group of people who have aligned with cruelty rather than love, who propagate lies rather than truth, who see themselves as rulers rather than public servants.

but they are not the majority, they work for us, & they are showing how weak they actually are. 

show up. stand up. speak up with the fierce compassion of love for all who are being harmed & threatened.

we are in this together.

~j

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#FascismIsWeakness #NoKings #democracy #love #OpenHeart #FierceCompassion #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #IsaacAsimov #JinpaLhaga

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“Watching you hold your hatred for such a long time I wonder: Isn’t it slippery? Might you not someday drop it on yourself? I wonder: Where does it sleep if ever? And where do you deposit it while you feed your children or sit in the lap of the one who cherishes you? There is no graceful way to carry hatred. While hidden it is everywhere.”
~ Alice Walker

there’s no hiding the heaviness of it, the inability to contain it once it is out, setting fire with words, hands, & steps. but it’s easy, isn’t it? at first? maybe the reason so many fall for it.but please love, friends. instead of hate, please love. even through the harm, the cruelty, the suffering – not in spite of it – but ever more because of it. love the immigrant, the trans person, & all who are living in fear, who can’t remember their sacredness because their very embodiment is being devalued & dismissed. they are Christ in disguise. so love in this dark moment, when others choose hate. love gently & tenderly, with conviction & ferocity, with open hearts & strong backs, upright & present.or else life as we hope it to be, will be destroyed.

~j

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#hate #love #suffering #fascism #freedom #sacred #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #AliceWalker #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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i think we can learn a great deal from the story of the Buddha.

here is this Indian prince, Siddhartha Gautama, raised up in wealth & privilege, isolation from the pains of the world. when he sees suffering – a sick person, an aging person, a deceased person, & then sees a wondering ascetic who appears at peace, the prince is so deeply affected & moved that rather than running back to his comfortable, privileged life, he abandons all the comforts, status, & wealth to seek out the source of suffering. then when he wakes up to what suffering is, he spends the rest of his life, trying to teach people the truth that he encountered so that they too, may be free from suffering. this renunciation of wealth & comfort, offering oneself completely in service to compassion, seems so foreign to the ultra wealthy we see in power today. 

can you imagine it?

his is not the ideology of oligarchy or kleptocracy, of over consumption, hyper-capitalism & greed. his is not the perspective that empathy is something to distain or a weakness.

may we, like the Buddha, find our way to a life in service to compassion, rather than a life that values or even looks up to the hoarding of wealth & power, which won’t last anyway. death will come & as the saying goes – you can’t take it with you.

~j

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#Buddha #empathy #compassion #OpenHeart #renunciation #service #offering #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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may we keep this in mind as we push back & deconstruct all that is harmful & exclusive, as we work to create a world of peace, a world of equity & justice, a world of inclusivity & healing, of reconciliation & restoration. 

may open hearts & clear, aware, wise minds prevail in this time for the benefit of all.

~j

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#love #OpenHeart #PlantingSeeds #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #creation #CarolChanning #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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sometimes love says the only thing that is needed in a moment of immense harm, with the conviction of life itself buoying the word with righteous, fierce compassion:

STOP.

~j

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#stop #love #OpenHeart #FierceCompassion #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart