“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

there’s a lot to be concerned about, distressing news that needs our attention, and is affecting many we know and even ourselves directly or indirectly in a very real way.

…but that isn’t the whole picture. not everything is broken. there is still so much for our hearts and minds to take in that is not distressing. recognizing what is good and also true can help counter balance what is not good and also true.

~j

#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #health #MentalHealth #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga

love this perfect Easter message from Pope Francis, shared by a favorite Buddhist teacher 🙏🏻

Love is the container which holds all of life/death. the path in which we journey through life/death.

Love is resurrection – love is IT.

Love calls us to roll the stone away and come out of the tomb, to be a new life and embodiment of Love.

~j

#HappyEaster friends 🙏🏻

when joy arises

i enjoy what is joyful

and then i let go.

~j

#presence #nonattachment #joy #LetGo #practice #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #haiku #EngagedBuddhist #enso #Zen #JMWart #JinpaLhaga

for many of us, we think if we ignore our suffering it will go away, or that we can outrun it, or if we go to war with it we can somehow subdue or overcome it.

but it doesn’t really seem to work out that way. what we don’t transform, what we don’t heal, never seems to go away. it just comes out in some other manifestation, usually harmful towards ourselves or towards others.

but there is another option.

we can, instead, meet our suffering with an open heart and with love. we can come face to face with our suffering and allow it to touch us and teach us. only in the authentic spaciousness of love can our suffering transform us and be transformed. only in the spaciousness of an open heart can we find healing and the freedom to truly let go.

this is a practice.

~j

#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #OpenHeart #healing #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga