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this is happening. 

people with legal status, with same constitutional protections as citizens, not charged with any crimes being picked up and disappeared to El Salvador with little to no transparency, no due process, no access to attorneys, or chance to defend themselves. 

this is unconstitutional and illegal, but the admin doesn’t care. the admin is admitting it – defying court orders as they do.

we, each of us, must ask if this is  what we want our country to be. if we voted for this admin, is this what we voted for? we have a moral imperative to choose love or cruelty. we cannot abide both.

may hearts open, may wisdom arise.

~j

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#fascism #TimothySnyder #cruelty #love #ChooseLove #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga 

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today is #TransDayOfVisibility.

can you imagine the courage, resilience, & self-love it takes to be authentically yourself even while your own government targets you for marginalization & oppression?

if you are the 1% or so of US population who identifies as transgender, then you don’t have to imagine it, you are living it.

so much love & respect for my trans friends. i am in awe of your presence & willingness to be. you are growing this world into loving unconditionally, which in the end, is the highest quality of being.

there will be push back from those who don’t understand & fear what they don’t understand. may their hearts open, & may the rest of us speak up & stand with you in solidarity.

you are sacred, beautiful, & worthy of this life.

~j

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#sacred #life #love #OpenHeart #TransRightsAreHumanRights #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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When you feel overwhelmed and busy, remember that you are not powerless. When your mind rests, the world also rests.

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Haemin Sunim

it’s okay to stop. it’s okay to simply rest & allow space for the alchemy of your life to process & transform, to cultivate steadiness, clarify, & resilience. your steady, spacious, wise presence will transform life around you, benefiting a world in need. the spaciousness within you, the spaciousness that is you, is power.

~j

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#stillness #rest #spaciousness #steadiness #resilience #clarity #wisdom #JustSit #practice #MindfulResistance #MeditateAndResist #SitDownRiseUp #HaeminSunim #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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there is a choice being made between a path of cruelty or a path of love.

we cannot serve two masters.

choose love.

~j

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#ChooseLove #love #OpenHeart #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #SitDownRiseUp #MeditateAndResist #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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when we look at the strategies of fascism, authoritarianism, of tyrants, it is important to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way. cruelty is a choice.

~j

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#CrueltyIsAChoice #cruelty #fascism #authoritarianism #tyrants #kindness #humanity #resilience #FreePeople #FDR #FranklinRoosevelt #JinpaLhaga

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just sitting here, wishing that the current people in power had read this quote when they had hit midlife. is it too late now that they are old fascists? can their over-dominant egos be shed, allowing space for a deeper connection to life? 

may it be so!

~j

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#midlife #ego #dominance #fascism #connection #life #CarlJung #SitDownRiseUp #MeditateAndResist #MindfulResistance #JinlaLhaga

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“Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread, and held and carried by a hundred others.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

may i remind you, just in case you aren’t feeling it in this moment, just in case you haven’t been told this recently?

you are loved and you are worthy of love.

why? 

not because some government, or persons who are temporarily in power say you are or are not worthy, but simply because you exist and are here.

and that’s enough.

~j

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#YouAreLoved #life #love #OpenHeart #RainerMariaRilke #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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a note of reminder to all of us & any of us who may feel targeted in this moment from a government who is supposed to protect us, uphold our rights, & provide opportunity for a full flourishing life. no matter what those in power or their sycophants proclaim with their feverish intention to diminish or promote despair:

you are life.

no one, no government, no earthly powers can take the truth of who you are away.

you are life. a beautiful, diverse, unique, expression of love & life itself, worthy of the full flowering of love & life in all its ways.

~j

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#YouAreLife #life #love #diversity #beauty #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #MeditateAndResist #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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#FierceCompassion #kindness #truth #courage #saints #bodhisattvas #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #MeditateAndResist #JinpaLhaga

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i don’t use the term “evil” lightly or frequently. i prefer to view things as beneficial or harmful, with the harm coming from a place of delusion. but sometimes the depth of the delusion, of the darkness & depravity, with such indifference to harm & suffering from the powers that be, & worse – the glee in its perpetration that we are seeing, needs a word that cuts through to wake us up to the horror of the situation. the word “evil” seems appropriate.

may the Love that is most ancient, unbound by time & space – the only true antidote to the evil we are seeing – find a home in our hearts, that we may embody such love, acting on its invitation to end harm & heal this world without exception or exclusion.

~j

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#evil #fascism #darkness #delusion #harm #love #AncientPower #boundless #antidote #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #MeditateAndResist #JinpaLhaga