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“aware of the pain

and suffering of all things

aware of the delicate

impermanence of all things

aware of the inherent beauty

and interdependence of all things

let us bow to all things 

opening our hearts in love.”

a lot of exceptions are made for whose pain and suffering we hold, whose plight calls upon our empathy and compassion.

but love does not discriminate.

we think we have forever to get it right, when getting it right is right in front of us.

we can spin for eons with our mental gymnastics justifying cruelty, but it is a fool’s game, with little time left on the clock.

we are but one flesh, diverse, beautiful, wounded and in need of healing.

love carries us across.

~j

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#nondiscrimination #love #OpenHeart #impermanence #interdependence #suffering #empathy #compassion #path #practice #JinpaLhaga

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So many ideas of what is 

right and wrong, good and bad, 

and we love to make sure 

we are in the right camp.

Perhaps the better questions are 

what is kind? What is generous? 

What is compassionate? 

What adds benefit to the world 

and does not add suffering? 

This is the path we can offer our lives to in the short time we are here.

~j

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#kindness #generosity #compassion #OpenHeart #life #love #offering #JinpaLhaga  

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e   v   e   r   y

t   h   i   n   g  .

~j

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#love #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #haiku

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yesterday, 2/25, marked 6 months since my dad’s passing on 8/25. 6 months where at times life has rolled along at what seems an exponential rate with many changes in flux, new chapters to be written. and then at other times life appears to stand still and stuck. 

more than ever, i realize that time is – or at least our experience of time is – a product of our own perception. subject to both our inner and outer world, and where the mystery of presence and non-presence flickers and dances about. 

but if i’m learning one thing, it is this: love is the only thing able to hold it all and it is love that continues to connect it all. love is the music that life and death dance to together.

the experience of death in relation to a parent – likely one of the few people we’ve known since our first breath – is weird, as many of you have known and some just recently. very real at times and surreal a lot of the time. they could walk into the room at any moment, but if we go looking, they aren’t there.

holding it all with love and gratitude across this dancefloor.

~j

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#death #life #time #presence #love #RumiQuotes #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga

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when joy arises

i enjoy what is joyful

and then i let go

~j

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practicing life with an open heart and open hands, is a practice of gratitude, freedom, and peace.

#ThisMoment #freedom #gratitude #LetGo #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #haiku #calligraphy 

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The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong 

with the world.

~

Paul Farmer

may we awaken to awareness of our interdependence, our shared interconnection, to the interbeing of our existence and reality. may we see, as the Sufi poet and mystic Hafiz stated, that “there is just one flesh to wound.”

may such awareness move our hearts to open in empathy, kindness, and gentleness towards all life, a life beautiful and rich in its diversity. and with such wisdom arising, may we work with our minds to no longer excuse, accept, or embrace cruelty, harm, and destruction.

may love and our choosing to practice love, to commit to a path of love, to surrender into our embodiment of love, be a healing and restorative force in our world.

~j

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#IAmBecauseWeAre #Ubuntu #interdependence #interconnection #interbeing #awareness #wisdom #OpenHeart #empathy #kindness #gentleness #EngagedBuddhism #path #practice #vow #PaulFarmerQuote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #enso #calligraphy

sharing this Washington Post article because it points out how the anti-LGBTQ+ bias/bigotry started at the top with the people who hold positions of power and promoted anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policies.
a reminder that harmful anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric with anti-LGBTQ+ people in positions of power leads to tremendous harm and possibly death.

may hearts open and sanity arise.
~j

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Posted @withregram • @washingtonpost

Nex Benedict collapsed the day after an altercation in a girls’ bathroom at the public high school they attended, a school where relatives say the 10th-grader had been bullied for being nonbinary.

Owasso is a Tulsa suburb of about 40,000 in the northeast corner of Oklahoma where this year state legislators already have proposed more than 50 anti-LGBTQ+ laws — more than any other state, according to the ACLU.

The man who heads public education in Oklahoma is also a vocal critic of LGBTQ rights. Superintendent Ryan Walters appointed Chaya Raichik — the conservative activist behind Libs of TikTok, which has targeted LGBTQ-friendly teachers at Owasso schools — to a state library advisory board.

Owasso police said Tuesday that results of an autopsy are pending. Officials are also awaiting a toxicology report before deciding whether to refer the case to the Tulsa district attorney’s office for potential charges, according to Lt. Nick Boatman.

Read more from this story at the link in Washington Post IG bio.

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the insane cruelty of this. a sacred life cut short due to hate, fueled by harmful rhetoric sourced in fear and ignorance.

not just the students, but the teachers? the school officials?
the level of inhumanity continues to astonish me.

we as a society have failed you Nex. we have failed to protect your precious and sacred life.

to my trans and nonbinary friends/family. i love you and cherish your embodiment of love and life in this world. you are worthy of life, worthy of safety and non-harm, you are worthy of happiness and love in all its flourishing. may you thrive.

for those who support such bigotry, fear, hate and harm, may you wake up in heart and mind. may awareness, empathy, clarity, and love awaken and arise within your heart and mind.

may we all be free from suffering.

~j
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#NexBenedict #nonbinary #trans #LGBTQ #Queer #TransRights #HumanRights #LoveWins #NoHate #OpenHeart #empathy #path #practice #JinpaLhaga

IG slides credit: @genzforchange 🙏🏼

Zen pretty much comes down to three things — everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

 ~ 

Jane Hirshfield

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#Zen #ZenBuddhism #impermanence #change #interconnection #interbeing #JustThisMoment #presence #OpenHeart #path #practice #JaneHirshfieldQuote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #ZenCircle #enso #art 

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hello friends – 

i want to share three verses i wrote a few years ago, that have become part of my morning practice along with prayers and reciting mantras, prior to sitting meditation.

i wrote these verses for myself at a time when i was trying to find balance in my capacity to be with life, holding all of what life brings with love, yet also having the wisdom and ability to let go, to set an intention to live a life of love that is also free flowing and not grasping, to have a practice that i could engage in at the start of each day. spoiler alert – still using these!

i hope they may be of benefit to you and your practice as well.

may hearts open and may wisdom arise.

~j

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may we have 

the capacity of heart 

to hold the entire world 

and all of life,

and may we have

the wisdom of mind

to let go.

may we hold 

all of life with love,

and with love, 

may we let go.

may we align with love, 

may we abide in love, 

may we embody love,

may we let go into 

the flow of love.

may it be so.

#love #wisdom #OpenHeart #LetGo #intention #path #practice #gathas #verses #JinpaLhaga