power sought after at all costs is weakness…

a reflection on this 2nd anniversary of the Jan 6th Insurrection & attempted coup, & the current incoming GOP majority House of Representatives.

for all the history making that was this week of 15 rounds of voting for the 55th Speaker of the House, may it be remembered that much of the power exerted this week has been from current sitting members of Congress who were actively & aggressively attempting to undermine & upend our democracy in the 2020 election, w/ rhetoric that incited the Jan 6th Insurrection & continue to this day to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election & undermine our election integrity & democratic institutions.

these are the people who Kevin McCarthy has handed over the power of the Speakership to in order to finally get the power of the Speakership he’s long been grasping for? congratulations?


Kevin McCarthy, who decried the events of Jan 6th Insurrection & Trump’s participation to only later shake hands & downplay the violence & shame of that day, doesn’t really come out of this a winner & neither do the citizens of this country as long as power at all costs, including through insurrection & coup, is sought after.

may open hearts & sanity arise, & may democracy continue to survive 🙏🏻


~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻


#violence #incompetence #Jan6thInsurrection #coup #HouseSpeaker #GOP #democracy #nonviolence #sanity

an infinite heart…

no less than infinity ♾️

may our path and practice reflect this reality, the vast capacity of our tender heart, which is love.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#OpenHeart #infinity #love #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #ZeldaFitzgeraldQuotes

a resolution to start with loving ourselves…

as we begin this new year with resolutions of “self-improvement” let us do so not out of self-criticism, disgust, or hate, but with love! 

a love for the miracle of this body and this life as it is, as we are, right now. 

let us make friends with ourselves and extend a warm, welcoming heart, a tenderness for who and how we are in this moment and all the potential we have ahead.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#NewYear #resolutions #SelfImprovement #SelfLove

#OpenHeart #WarmHeart #tenderness #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #SwamiAmarJyoti

a vast love with compassion for all…

“Could we exclude any from our compassion any more than the sun could exclude any from the warmth and radiance of its rays?”

~ Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche  

ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ

Om Mani Padme Hum

with open hearts and a love so vast, holding all life with tenderness and compassion, may we meet this world.
~j
⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#OmManiPadmeHum #compassion #tenderness #kindness #love #OpenHeart #EngagedBuddhism #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BWphotography #photography #ChagdudTulkuRinpocheQuotes

New Year 2023 message…

Happy New Year friends!

as we let go of 2022 and embrace the possibilities of 2023, may our resolution, underlying all other resolutions, be one of arriving at each moment just as we are, befriending ourselves, and taking the leap into the inward journey of meeting life – the life within us – with curiosity, resilience, and grace. may our hearts continue to open and our minds be at ease. may our words and actions embody love, as instruments of tenderness and compassion in a world thirsty for healing and restoration.

deeper, deeper, and deeper may we go to the source of who we are, and may such wisdom bring meaning and purpose to our lives and the world around us.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2023 #NewYear #resolutions #life #journey #wayfarer #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BuddhistArt #art #illustration #poetry #poem

a love without limit…

“There is no limit to 

how much our hearts can open.  

Our tsewa (warm, open heart) 

can become so far-reaching 

and impartial that it covers 

all people, all animals, 

all living beings everywhere….”

~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

all living beings everywhere.

path and practice.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#OpenHeart #tsewa #EngagedBuddhism #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #DzigarKongtrulRinpoche

a love without limit…

“There is no limit to 

how much our hearts can open.  

Our tsewa (warm, open heart) 

can become so far-reaching 

and impartial that it covers 

all people, all animals, 

all living beings everywhere….”

~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

all living beings everywhere.

path and practice.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#OpenHeart #tsewa #EngagedBuddhism #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #DzigarKongtrulRinpoche

the sacred lies in the ordinary…

“Light, landscape and sky.

There is no language of the holy.

The sacred lies in the ordinary.”

~

Ming-Dao Deng

when we stop, drop the story, and just allow it all in as we breathe, we get a glimpse – it’s all here, it’s all now. filled with life, filled with love. 

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#JustThis #presence #sacred #Tao #nature #life #Zen #Buddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BWphotography #photography

healing? restoration? count on being present…

meeting life where we are, with our full presence – our open heart, our steady mind, our compassion and sanity – is our practice/can be our practice, is how we participate in healing, build restoration and peace, how we serve and bring benefit.

we must face reality and be prepared to work.

this can be our path and practice, how we live and love in this world.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#EngagedBuddhism #OpenHeart #SteadyMind #sanity #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #RuthKingQuotes 

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Count on being present.⁠

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