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or in the words sung by Gloria Estefan – Get on your feet! Get up and make it happen!

may we, with open hearts and steady minds, engage our world with love embodied as empathy, kindness, compassion to be a healing force of action with wisdom and light.

~j

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#SitDownRiseUp #OpenHeart #Love #Empathy #Kindness #Compassion #EngagedBuddhism #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #GloriaEstefan #DalaiLama #DalaiLamaQuotes

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“The biggest thing in this world, bigger than the ocean and the sky, is your heart.”

~ Do Hyun Choe

yes, your heart. 

and my heart.

trusting love. trusting opening and vulnerability, giving rise to connection, empathy, tenderness, and compassion.

with curiosity, bravery, intention, and some humor. 

returning again and again, beginning anew.

planting seeds of resilience, healing, and beauty.

path and practice. 

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#OpenHeart #Love #BigLove #LoveWins #Path #Practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Photography #BWphotography #DoHyunChoeQuote

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so many of us searching for the meaning of life, why we are here. what if it is this? to wake up to our interdependence, to wake up to our true nature, to wake up to love and to be the face of love, the hands of love in this world, to speak the words of love into this world for the benefit of all.

may it be so.

~j

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#embodiment #love #peace #life #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #Sufism #HafizQuotes

we really cannot continue to grieve Love and Life this way. when will we tire of the word “again”? 

this country and its systems are ill with delusion, aggression and violence. so ready to so easily, indifferently destroy and take life as if we ever truly, legitimately have the right to do so.

Tyre Nichols’ earthly life was a luminous embodiment of Life itself, an embodiment of Love, a sacred embodiment of the Divine. may he, no longer bound to this realm, transcend all realms, held in the Great Love which holds and heals all things. 

prayers for his family, friends, and for all feeling this so deeply.

~j

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Posted @withregram • @berniceaking 

“Besides, 

They’ll see how beautiful I am 

And be ashamed— 

I, too, am America.”

~ Langston Hughes

#TyreNichols

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in response to the harm we see, may we keep eyes and hearts open. 

may we know who, what, and why we serve.

~j

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#love #embodiment #empathy #FierceCompassion #justice #service #work #OpenEyes #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga

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″Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.″

~ Pema Chödrön

non-harming is both path and practice, how we relate to and move within this world. it is a choice we can make. in Buddhism it is also a vow. it is a practice we commit to returning to time and again. 

and ultimately it is a way of embodying love.

~j

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#nonharming #DoNoHarm #FirstPrecept #vow #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #PemaChodronQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy #Zen #Buddhism #BuddhistArt #ContemplativeArt #art

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a practice of non-violence is a practice of bravery and resilience. it’s a vow and choice we make over and over again, moment to moment to see through the narrative and delusion of “othering” that divides and into the interdependent heart of ultimate reality which is Love.  

~j

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#nonviolence

Posted @withregram • @berniceaking View the entire #DearCoretta video and timeline here: timeline.thekingcenter.org/dear-coretta

#CorettaScottKing @TheKingCenter @Microsoft

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“Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.” 

~ Jason Mraz

sometimes darkness is all we seem able to see, but there is always light.

if we are willing to be still, to sit long enough with life, with our heart open, our eyes will adjust.

~j

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#darkness #light #EyesOpen #OpenHeart #awareness #love #luminous #life #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JasonMrazQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #ContemplativeArt #BuddhistArt

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it can take immense #bravery to surrender, to #LetGo & #trust.

#path & #practice

~j

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gratitude for the wise words below 👇🏻🙏🏻

Posted @withregram • @yung_pueblo 

Stress and anxiety are the children of attachment, they are both a form of craving that take us away from the present and into areas of imagination that steal away our peace.

Heaviness comes from hanging on tightly to emotions that were always meant to be ephemeral. We want things to last forever or we turn difficult moments into long lasting pain simply because we have not learned to let go. We have not learned that the beauty of living comes from the movement of change. Letting go does not mean that we forget and it does not mean that we give up, it just means that we are not letting our present happiness be determined by things that happened in the past or by things we wish to happen in the future.

The accomplishment of all great things in life take effort, especially when it comes to changing and healing ourselves. No one said it was going to be easy, if it was easy it would have been done already, but it will be absolutely worth it and the reward will be greater than the difficulty it took to get there.

Letting go takes training and dedication. Find a practice that brings you noticeable results and use it consistently. When things get tough remember that we are not building something small, we are building a palace of peace within our own hearts and it takes determination to complete something of such beauty and magnitude.

Sending love to all 🙏🏽🌎 #yungpueblo

Note: The words in the image do not apply to those with mental illness or severe forms of trauma.

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a year since Thay’s passing into the Great Beyond. yet such a place is no different than the deepest depths of our own hearts , or the pristine, luminous vastness of our own mind, like the blue sky beyond the clouds.

continued deep bows of gratitude for Thay’s teaching, his embodiment of the wisdom of mindfulness, the tenderness of lovingkindness, and compassion. of engaged Buddhism.

i see his face, his wisdom, and art everyday on my walls and altar space.

may he continue to teach through his writings, the monastics, and the sangha.

~j

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#ThichNhatHanh #Thay #mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism #EngagedBuddhism #compassion #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga