remember:

we embody love.

be beautiful.

be you.

EVERY DAY

not just Pride Month 🌈

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#pridemonth 

#LGBTQIA

#Queer

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…i’m not very strong.

but, it’s a practice. muscles to grow. a heart to open wider and wider. a mind that begins to allow for the waters to settle.  

~j

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#life #strength #calm #quiet #peace #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #YogiBhajanQuotes

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“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”

~ Hans Margolius

try to find a few moments of quiet today, friends – even one, two or three mindful breaths, here and there throughout your day. this is almost all i have time for most days in caring for my father. step outside, go sit in your car, or find a quiet corner of your home.

breathing in, feel the in breath – Life! breathing out feel the letting go – also Life!

allow the noise to be the noise. it comes and goes. that’s not you. you are the quiet center. you are.

~j

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#silence #QuietMind #meditation #JustBreathe #presence #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #photography #Buddha #HansMargoliusQuotes

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How would you see the Sun 

outside of you, 

if you didn’t have the Sun 

within you?

~

Phakyab Rinpoche

Happy Summer Solstice beautiful people! shine your light with an open heart and love.

~j

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#SummerSolstice #LongestDay #sun #shine #light #YouAreGood #OpenHeart #ShineOn #TrueNature #buddhanature #InnerLight #bodhicitta #love #LoveWins #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #PhakyabRinpocheQuotes

JUNETEENTH, also known as Freedom Day, originated in Galveston, Texas, when Union Army General Gordon Granger proclaimed by order the freedom of enslaved people in Texas. this was a 2 1/2 half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

ironically and sadly, here in 2023, some states including Florida and Texas are making it difficult if not illegal to teach this history due to racism based in ignorance and fear, in an effort to control a narrative fiction regarding US History. 

in the spirit of JUNETEENTH and the divine truth that a free life devoid of oppression and subjugation is an inherent right for all, we must continue to inform with the truth of our history (all parts – bad and good) through political engagement, education, and art.

of note – the US Congress with President Biden signing into law on June 17, 2021, made JUNETEENTH a Federal Holiday.

~j

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#Juneteenth #FreedomDay #EmancipationProclamation #GeneralOrderNo3 #freedom #history #education #art #engagement #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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Posted @withregram • @jtenzinpalmo

Because we’re so caught up in outward aspects or inner chatter we cannot connect with the very thing which is our life force and it can only really be recognized by relaxing more and more, and at the same time keeping the mind very clear and focused. But not by effort. Effort can never get you there.

This is why they always express the mind as being spacious and vast like the sky, rather than something tight and focused. It doesn’t work like that.

~ Jetsunma Tenzinc Palmo

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“All healing is first a healing of the heart.” ~ Carl Townsend

it is our open hearts, our love, with its empathy, it’s tenderness and compassion, that will heal this beautiful world.

~j

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#MedicineBuddha #healing #OpenHeart #love #tenderness #compassion #LoveWins #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BuddhistArt #ContemplativeArt #art #CarlTownsendQuote

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the sacred brevity of life! 

RIP Treat Williams. 

to be honest, i didn’t follow his acting work all that much, but i came upon his tweets about a year or two ago, and i just loved how much he loved being on his property, in nature and posting about it. in fact, he posted this morning while out, mowing the lawn and of course i liked the tweet and what he had to say. and here it is the end of the day and he’s gone, his life ended in a motorcycle accident having no idea he would not see another day of mowing the lawn and smelling that fresh cut grass in the clear air and vast skies of his home.

the Zen Evening Gatha seeming ever appropriate for the fleeting nature of this life. a flash, then gone.

love every moment and everyone.

cherish!

~j

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#TreatWilliams #life #death #sacred #cherish #ZenEveningGatha #ZenEnso #enso #JMWart #JinpaLhaga

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“What I do is pray; how I pray is breathe.” ~ Thomas Merton

the noise, the chaos, the confusion. what to do?

just breathe.

breathing in, i know that i am breathing in and i am here in this moment.

breathing out, i know i am breathing out and i am free in this moment.

free to tend to what is needed in this moment, what is true and beneficial in this moment.

~j

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#JustBreathe #breathe #presence #freedom #OpenHeart #CalmMind #SteadyMind #prayer #meditation #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #enso #ZenEnso #EnsoArt #calligraphy #art #ThomasMertonQuotes

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life is our teacher.

~j

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#Life #Teacher #Guru #Learning #Growth #BeginnersMind #OpenHeart #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #AjahnSumedhoQuotes