for all
the talk of love and its power, it may very well be this vulnerable, raw, warmth in the heart, subtle, intimate and connective, that we call tenderness, that changes the world. person to person. conversation by conversation. one interaction at a time.
what is more powerful than that?
may it be so.
~j
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#tenderness #warmth #authenticity #rawness #warmth #OpenHeart #love #intimacy #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #OlgaTokarczukQuotes
holding the victims and their families/friends of the Club Q shooting in my heart and practice with love.
to my LGBTQIA family – with gratitude for you, remember we are luminous expressions of life and love just as any other person is. we will continue to live and love, shining our light, teaching and expanding the capacity of the world to love.
to our allies – with gratitude for you, we need your solidarity, your voice, your love.
to others – i urge you to reject those who embrace bigoted, divisive, aggressive rhetoric targeting the queer community, expecially our trans brothers and sisters, whether in your church, your political party, or community. we are your neighbor.
a reminder – we do not have to fully understand another person’s lived experience in order to practice empathy, kindness, and compassion. embody love. rise above ignorance, fear and hate.
~j
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#ClubQShooting #EndHate #EndBigotry #EndGunViolence #EndViolence #LGBTQIA #Queer #OpenHeart #Life #Love #Empathy #Kindness #Compassion #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #PrideBuddha #PrideArt #LGBTQIAart #QueerArt #BuddhistArt #art #JinpaLhaga #JMWart
love isn’t some timid, saccharine thing. it’s the force of life itself. to be light, to be healing, to be generosity, to be nonaggression, to be kindness and compassion, is to be love and do the work of love in this life.
~j
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life events, situations, relationships can feel pretty heavy – sometimes overwhelming heavy.
our mind can get stuck in the heaviness so much so that we forget the lightness available in life – the music, the laughter, the fun. all of it is happening, waiting for us to become aware.
we are all dealing with stuff collectively and likely individually as well. we can make it a practice to allow some time for lightness, for dance, for music, for laugher and joy.
it’s all here.
~j
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*quote is a lyric from the song “Begin” by the exquisite Ben Lee on his album, “Awake Is The New Sleep”.
#bliss #joy #dance #laughter #music #life #love #awareness #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #BenLeeQuotes
“Putting down all barriers, let your mind be full of love. Let it pervade all the quarters of the world so that the whole wide world, above, below, and around, is pervaded with love. Let it be sublime and beyond measure so that it abounds everywhere.”
~ Dīgha Nikāya
may it be so.
everywhere.
~j
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we have the capacity, ability, and choice to not add to the harm we see in the world.
we have the capacity, ability, and choice to be a light, a force for good, and benefit for the world.
may hearts open, may sanity arise.
~j
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#OpenHeart #AForceForGood #BeALight #DoGood #BeKind #BeLove #sanity #Bodhisattvas #service #vow #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #GeorgeEliotQuotes
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we have more power than we realize, immense power, to make our own choices.
we can make a vow, even just to ourselves, to choose to be love in each moment to our best ability. this is compassion. to meet life’s moments, to meet others with an open heart, with kindness, tenderness, and wisdom.
and when we fall short, we can meet ourselves with that same love, that same kindness and tenderness, and we can simply begin again. we can choose again. each moment is new, each moment an opportunity to begin again, to be love once again.
~j
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#compassion #OpenHeart #love #kindness #tenderness #power #BeginAgain #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #LamaZopaRinpocheQuotes
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there are some in our politics who would proclaim Jesus out of one side of their mouth and curse social justice causes and whole groups of marginalized people out of the other – the very work Jesus did, the very people he loved and served!
Love works to bring healing, to bring equity, to bring justice for all – including and most necessarily for those who are marginalized and harmed, the outcast, the shunned, those experiencing inequity and injustice within our structures and systems.
who fits these descriptions today?
who is our neighbor we are called to love?
that is where our work is, that is where Love calls us to go and to be of benefit.
~j
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#SocialJustice #love #compassion #inclusion #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #BerniceKingQuotes
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an open, tender heart is our strength. a heart aware of being love in the world, which in action is compassion, is a powerful force for beneficial change. perhaps the most powerful, when paired with wisdom, the ability to see clearly with equanimity.
loving our neighbor (which is everyone) and vowing to put an end to suffering for the benefit of others, to be a presence of healing rather than destruction, is nothing to apologize for or feel sheepish about. so let your heart bleed, hug a tree, make love not war, and all that stuff, and do so with the confidence of love. it’s what the world needs.
~j
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#BleedingHeart #humanity #LoveYourNeighbor #love #compassion #wisdom #clarity #strength #OpenHeart #TruePower #helaer #bodhisattva #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #ToniMorrisonQuotes
true morality.
it’s really this simple –
having empathy, speaking and acting with compassion, with kindness.
it’s a recognition of and appreciation for our interdependence. but in day to day interactions we often forget as we get caught up in the arising and falling of events, thoughts, and feelings in this life.
to be kind, to bring benefit and healing, rather than harm and destruction through our words and actions, is a reflection of our awareness of our interdependence and an expression of our gratitude for being alive.
so when we see the rhetoric in politics, attacking migrants, attacking the trans community, attacking people of color, attacking other LGBTQ+ and marginalized groups, and attacking young activists trying to create beneficial change out of horrific tragedy – we see the aggression, we see the anger and fear of course, but underneath that, we can also see ignorance and delusion. a basic misunderstanding that there is no “other”, we are each other, we are life.
it’s this foundational ignorance, this lack of understanding, this delusion that feeds division, brings harm, brings suffering.
may hearts open, may sanity arise.
~j
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#awareness #OpenHeart #sanity #interdependence #kindness #compassion #morality #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #PemaChödrönQuotes
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