“Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings, we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free all sentient beings from suffering. This is karuna, compassion, which in turn gives rise to the responsibility to create happiness and its causes for all.”
~ Suresh Jindal
do no harm.
“I get lost in the beauty of everything I see, the world ain’t half as bad as they paint it to be.”
~ Ryan Tedder
even in the middle of the storm, we can practice keeping our hearts open, our minds steady, and allowing space for the beauty in life to be revealed. in fact, in the middle of the storm may be the best place and time to practice.
~j
#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #life #suffering #OpenHeart #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #JMWphotography #BWPhotography #photography
“Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.”
~ Pema Chödrön
wonderful and wise quote.
notably not referring to some hierarchy of kindness (i.e. i’m more important than you so i take care of me with kindness first), rather it is referring to a process (i.e. if i practice kindness towards myself, i have the practice and capacity to be kind to all others as well).
it begins in our hearts with the love already there. it continues in offering that heart with that same love to a world in need.
being gentle, being tender, being kind are some of the most underestimated of powers.
~j
#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #OpenHeart #BeKind #offering #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga
Here in the shadow
Loving all that is broken
The Sun always shines
~j
can we be spacious enough within our hearts to love what is broken – within us, within others, within the world, within this moment?
i believe so.
the sun still shines. it the light of the sun that allows us to see that there is a shadow, that there is brokenness calling for our healing, for our love. we can be grateful for this and for the opportunity to love.
it is love, after all, that will heal and transform our own wounds. and it is love that will engender empathy and motivate the compassion we need to heal the suffering of others and a world in need.
and where is that love found?
in our hearts – yours and mine.
we can offer our broken hearts, with all the love pouring out, to ourselves and a suffering world.
~j
#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #BrokenHeart #OpenHeart #suffering #love #light #Bodhisattvas #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga #haiku
“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”
~
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
#BeginAnew #cycle #transformation #life #balance #flow #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga
#EarthDay.
Get outside. Take some time to sit, to listen…feel the air swirl around your, the birds singing their song, leaves rustling. You are a part of something beautiful, not just some object to use or abuse, but a living organism made of other countless living organisms. we live together, we breathe together, and our wounds are shared.
~j
#EarthDay2020 #Interdependence #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga
you have within you what a wounded world needs for healing.
YOU and your open heart.
tender and vulnerable, yet resilient and a holder of the most powerful force in existence – Love.
offer it.
wounds and all of its delicate beauty, offer it.
~j
🌍❤️🙏🏻
#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #OpenHeart #life #love #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga
“Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all…It’s not about you.”
~
The Ancient One
(MCU – “Doctor Strange”)
it’s always us. it’s always we. our interdependence is woven inextricably into the fabric of life itself. we forget this in our fear and in our arrogance. this forgetting leads to so much harm, unnecessary harm, a harm which eventually also comes back to harm us as well. invisibly sometimes. wounds of the heart and grieving of the soul are not always immediately apparent or recognizable in their manifestation.
the flip side to this is – you are never alone on this journey. all of life is with you and in you. that’s a worthy comfort.
~j
#interdependence #we #us #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga #Marvel #MCU #DoctorStrange #TheAnci
“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no ‘meaning,’ they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
~ Peter Matthiessen
you are enough.
~j
#zen #Buddhism #meditation #practice #wisdom #BeStill #BeSimple #simplicity #life #nature #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #JMWart #JinpaLha
could it be that life is both broken and whole at the same time? that our perspective comes from where we place our focus?
i don’t know the answer, but this photograph i took brought these questions to my mind.
right now, there’s a lot that looks and is broken, but if we shift our focus, we may see that in the same snapshot of life there is also wholeness.
wishing everyone wellness and health, in both body and mind ❤️🙏🏻
~j
#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #life #contemplation #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #JMWphotography #BWphotography #photography
The Metta Garden 