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the cruelty, harm, destruction & death we are seeing – we are bearing witness to – weighs heavy, friends. please take care & continue purposefully returning to love. they who have aligned with such cruelty would have us sink into a deep, dark, winter of despair. but they have forgotten what we who are aligned with love are keenly aware of – the inevitability of spring.

~j

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#spring #hope #love #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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find the moral ground and stand there.

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#NoFascism #NoCruelty #NoICE #GerardVanderhaar #JinpaLhaga

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STOP ICE

STOP THE CRUELTY

STOP THE BRUTALITY

STOP THE HARM

STOP THE KILLING

STOP THE TRAUMA

STOP.

a person, even if resisting, already thrown to the ground with half a dozen ICE on top of him doesn’t need to be shot multiple times in the chest & killed.

BE CLEAR EYED on this. DO NOT rationalize what you are seeing. this level of aggression & violence is not of life, is not of light, is not of love. 

align with life, align with light, align with love!

~j

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#fascism 

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Be wary of any belief, ideology, dogma, or tradition that promotes division between you and your fellow human beings.

~ Hemley Gonzalez

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#love #OneLove #HemleyGonzalez #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“It is true, the wind blows terribly here – but moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house.”

~ Izumi Shikibu

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#perspective #beauty #IzumiShikibu #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.” ~ Dorothy Day

daily, i see otherwise kind, generous people aligning themselves, justifying, supporting, even celebrating the targeting & oppression of others to the point of immense harm & cruelty. how does the heart get to such a place? each of us has the potential to embody darkness, fear, cruelty & a hardening of the heart. but each of us, also has the ability to tap into the underlying love from which we come & can draw immense strength, clarity, & warmth to benefit this world. not loving our neighbor is not an option. we must love each other without category or exception, to survive. Jesus knew this, Buddha knew this, & many others. it’s on us to begin with our own heart, to do the work, honor our innermost being, & knowingly-intentionally embody the love we are & the world needs.

~j

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#love #revolution #DorothyDay #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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a note from December 2016, just over a month from the election of Trump to his first term. words i wrote to gird myself for what i knew would be ahead & hopefully inspire others to know their light & the power of shining that light in the face of such darkness.

words, that remain relevant perhaps even more than then, & that i offer again nearly 10 years later.

~j

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#light #power #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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Love is not passive. Love does not cooperate with inhumanity. Love is an active force for peace, justice, and righteousness.

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Bernice King

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#love #power #BerniceKing #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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this is a dangerous moment.
may awareness, clarity, wisdom, & courage arise. may love have the final word.
~j
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“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly…Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK Jr. was a prophet in the truest sense – one who sees clearly, who knows the heart of love, & has the courage to speak truth to power. it cost him his life, as it has for other prophets throughout history. part of the truth of seeing clearly & knowing love is to see & know that we are interdependent w/ each other & all life. Buddhism teaches this w/ sharp clarity. MLK Jr. understood this. the truth of interdependence is a threat to those who misunderstand & abuse power, because it undermines such ideology. if we understand & know our interdependence then how can we marginalize or oppress, or embrace the cruelty, brutalization, & destruction of others we are currently seeing? if we are seeing our situation clearly, our interdependence, & we know love fully, then we can’t, & likewise we are compelled by love to speak up & take action to end such harm & suffering.

~j

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#MLKday #MLKJr #interdependence #JinpaLhaga #JMWart