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who would you exclude from government protections, from liberty, freedom, equity, & justice? 

going further, who would you exclude from your empathy, mercy, compassion, generosity, & love?

that’s where our work is. that’s where the heart needs to open. where we would exclude our love, where we would exclude from the protections & provisions of government.

allowing others to be targeted, marginalized, & oppressed, is permission for the same to be done to you & those you have included in your love.

~j

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#democracy #representativedemocracy #liberty #freedom #justice #empathy #compassion #love #OpenHeart #FederalJudgeAnaReyes #JinpaLhaga

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our devotion must be to love & to loving each other, to non-harming, to healing & the well being of life around us. the religious, the spiritual life, seekers, & devotees have a responsibility to hold a mirror up to the present & ask, “is this love? is this worthy of the gift of this sacred, & passing life?” 

if it isn’t, then must call it out & inspire a way forward in love that is inclusive, & to & for the benefit of all.

~j

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#empire #community #LoveThyNeighbor #love #OpenHeart #responsibility #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #RussellMoore #JinpaLhaga 

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the world spins.

hold to center. 

breathe. 

shine.

~j

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#practice #meditation #BeStill #breathe #shine #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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a post of gratitude for all of these District Judges honoring their oath to the Constitution & obedience to the rule of law. they are literally, with the all but total absence of Congress (sans a handful of lawmakers who are up to this moment), the only part of the government holding the line on our behalf in this moment. 

ultimately, it’s on us. are we willing to arrive at this moment in the way love & community calls us to? in the way a republic, a representative democracy, needs from its populace?

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#democracy #fascism #DOGE #coup

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In violence 

we forget 

who we are.

~ 

Mary McCarthy

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#nonviolence #nonaggression #ceasefirenow #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“i am because we are.”

when we recognize this truth, we will truly have an awakening of the heart, an all inclusive revolution of love.

~j

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#Ubuntu #interdependence #interbeing #we #awakening #OpenHeart #love #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #enso #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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yet, and still….and still. 

in spite of it all, or perhaps inspired by it all, or necessarily because of it all…

my heart remains open and free.

~j

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#freedom #OpenHeart #path #bodhisattvas #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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our calling, our task.

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#calling #task #love #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #path #vow #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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this is evil’s great folly:

that in its hubris & delusion, it is unable to see that love has the capacity to use all things to its own fruition. moved by love exclusion becomes opportunity for inclusion. division becomes opportunity for community. cruelty becomes opportunity for empathy, tenderness, kindness, & compassion. destruction becomes opportunity for healing, reconciliation, & reconstruction. even death becomes opportunity for transformation, resurrection, & renewal. 

this isn’t to diminish the reality that there is & will be pain, struggle & challenge, even suffering. but, there also seems to be an inherent movement from life itself, perhaps by necessity, toward continuing, flourishing, & opening to love.

~j

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#LoveWins #love #EvilsFolly #OpenHeart #transformation #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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though as individuals we may not have the ability to take on forces bigger than us, we as a community have the ability to work together in the face of such forces. however, we also individually have great power. we individually have the underlying power of our choice, our intention, our vow to work with our own heart & mind, benefitting ourselves & all those we come in contact with, a rippling out that continues beyond us. is this not love in action? is this not the ancient power the prophets, seers, & mystics of old speak of? we are part of a lineage of love that taps into the inherent luminous wisdom of things that exists here in this moment & also beyond space & time. seeds of love & good heartedness planted, that with the right conditions will bloom. remember, the darkest winter still gives way to spring. 

~j

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#power #PlantingSeeds #OpenHeart #LiveByVow #love #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #PemaChodron #JinpaLhaga