friends, please take the time to listen to HCR’s explainer regarding this administration‘s actions towards Venezuela earlier today. it is only a half hour long, but gives historical context, including World War I & World War II along with the aftermath & the implementation of a rules based world order after those wars. of course she does so in her consistent very clear minded, clear voiced, sober & non-hyperbolic manner. it is important for all of us to understand context, both for our own country & for the world. knowledge & context helps us discern through the narratives being presented.

https://youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I

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sitting, heart open 

moon reflecting sunlight 

i offer my love.

may we make it our practice & path in 2026, to cultivate compassion as an antidote to cruelty, harm, & destruction.

may this new year connect us to community, holding us in friendship, light, & love.

happy new year, friends!

~j

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#NewYear2026 #CultivateCompassion #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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New Year’s Eve provides an auspicious opportunity to reflect on the previous year & prepare ourselves for the year that is beginning & i think we shouldn’t shy away from the deep questions. what connects me to others, to their joy, to their suffering? what & who invites my heart to open wider & wider to the world & life around me? how am i using my time? am i using the time i have to embody love, to shine light into the dark places in this world? who have i excluded from my love, from the tenderness & generosity of my heart? who have i not seen as my neighbor?who have i cast out? what can i do to bring them back in, to remind them that their lives are sacred, worthy, & cherished? no one can answer these questions for us. only we can answer this for ourselves. we are responsible & accountable for the words & actions we birth into this world. what world do we want to help create in the year to come? please allow & gift yourself some time today to sit somewhere quiet & look inward to the deep spaces of your heart. it is where the past is healed & reconciled, & seeds for the future are planted.

~j

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#NYE #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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the targeting of immigrants, of trans people, of those who are poor or sick, or marginalized & cast out for whatever reasons is targeting our neighbor. it is especially egregious because it attacks the very dignity of people. friends, we do not have the right to do that. we do not have the right to destroy the lives of people we do not understand, disagree with, or mistakenly see as “other” & that is what is happening now with this administration. people’s lives are being destroyed. 

a person’s dignity is inherent to their existence & life itself, a sacred birthright. we cannot say out of one side of our mouth “for God so loved the world” & then out of the other side of our mouth say “America First”, or deny someone’s lived experience as a sacred embodiment of life. to do so is playing God. it is the opposite of love. this is why i find it so offensive. such cruelty is an affront to life itself. we do not have the right to deny or remove the dignity of others, though in our attempt to do so we harm & cause suffering. it does seem, however, we do have the capacity in our acts of inhumanity, & our indifference to harm & suffering, to abandon our own dignity, & we are seeing this happen daily.

~j

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#dignity #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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sometimes it feels like those who align with cruelty, harm, & destruction have the upper hand, that they are winning the race. it can be easy to become cynical & give space to thoughts of defeat. but a world already suffering doesn’t need cynicism, it needs love. it needs people willing to keep their hearts open despite what they see or feel, willing to do good in the world, help & heal even when all seems lost, simply because it is needed. love meets us where we are, & the world in its need. while cruelty, harm, & destruction blindly race toward their envisioned finish, love wins the marathon. sometimes slow or even seemingly unseen, but always steady, persistent, resolved, & aligned with life.

so however dour things seem, however we may feel, we do our part. 

we do good anyway.

~j

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#DoGoodAnyway #calligraphy #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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we would never know the light without knowing darkness. so darkness is not our enemy. darkness, too, is our friend, guide, & teacher in this life. there is also a beautiful alchemy to darkness, a fertile space where all begins, where love works quietly & persistently as we rest. so like everything, we can include darkness on our path, knowing that within winter’s darkness, the seeds of spring await.

~j

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#WinterSolstice

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today is the Feast Day of St. John of the Cross. one of my favorite Christian Catholic mystics, he is patron saint to contemplatives & mystics. a poet & deep seeker/surrenderer to union with Divine Love. out of much suffering was born an open heart of love and service.

two quotes i’d like to share:

“Tenderly, I now touch all things,

knowing one day we will part.”

what wisdom! to see the impermanence of things and love’s place in holding it all.

“They can be like a sun, words.

They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”

what wisdom! to see the power of life, giving words. a condemnation on the use of words by the most powerful in this time to deceive, & propagate, cruelty, harm, & destruction.

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Awake in the world

What is this meditation?

Dirt beneath these nails.

~j

love is not an escape path, a way to transcend, to bypass, to be apart or above. love calls us into the very depths of meeting suffering where it is at with our open, tender hearts. love invites us into a wider, a larger view, a Mahayana view that includes the wellbeing of ALL. how else can we be of benefit or instruments of healing and peace in this world? how can it be love, if it is otherwise?

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#love #OpenHeart #haiku #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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if not us, who?

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#care #empathy #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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It is this tender heart 

that has the power 

to transform the world.

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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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#ChogyamTrungpa #OpenHeart #tenderness #JinpaLhaga #JMWart