in California?
check out this GREAT resource for Nov 8th #MidtermElections.

from candidates to measures, from local to statewide, you can type in your zip code and find explainers, match up your values/policy priorities with candidates, etc.

#engage our #democracy. #educate yourself #inform yourself and #VOTE.

link below 👍🏻

~j
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Posted @withrepost • @kpbs The KPBS Voter Hub is your one stop for everything you need to know for the November 8 election.

It’s home to explainers, an interactive virtual ballot guide, a candidate matcher quiz, resources on how to vote and where, and of course all the latest news!

Check it out at https://kpbs.org/voterhub

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El centro de votantes de KPBS es su única parada para todo lo que necesita saber para las elecciones del 8 de noviembre.

Es el hogar de explicadores, una guía de votación virtual interactiva, un cuestionario de comparación de candidatos, recursos sobre cómo votar y dónde, y por supuesto, ¡todas las últimas noticias!

Compruébalo en kpbs.org/guiaelectoral

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These mountains

that you are carrying,

you were

only supposed to

climb.

~

Najwa Zebian

give yourself a break.

are you doing the best you can to live and love authentically with an open heart?

to speak with kindness and move with compassion?

then cut yourself some slack.

if you aren’t doing these things, then do your best to begin, one breath and one step at a time.

and then give yourself a break, cut yourself some slack, and begin again.

~j

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#grace #ease #BeginAgain #selfcare #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #zen #enso #art #ZenArt #BuddhistArt #ContemplativeArt #JMWart #NajwaZebianQuotes

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These mountains

that you are carrying,

you were

only supposed to

climb.

~

Najwa Zebian

give yourself a break.

are you doing the best you can to live and love authentically with an open heart?

to speak with kindness and move with compassion?

then cut yourself some slack.

if you aren’t doing these things, then do your best to begin, one breath and one step at a time.

and then give yourself a break, cut yourself some slack, and begin again.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏻

#grace #ease #BeginAgain #selfcare #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #zen #enso #art #ZenArt #BuddhistArt #ContemplativeArt #JMWart #NajwaZebianQuotes

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this moment in history is calling to us. our ancestors are calling to us. future generations are calling to us. those who are marginalized, targeted, and oppressed are calling to us.
may we answer the call.

#participate #engage #vote

~j
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Posted @withrepost • @mindourdemocracy When your grandchildren ask you, “how did you mind our democracy?” what will you say? @jack_kornfield offers his guidance for how to respond.

#MindOurDemocracy

#MindfulVoting

#2022Midterms

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“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice….”

~ Pema Chödrön 

we can choose to keep an open heart.

we can choose to allow vulnerability, softness, and tenderness to be our strength, our super power.

we can choose to be brave.

bravery is a practice.

~j

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#bravery #OpenHeart #vulnerability #tenderness #superpower #strength #path #practice #PemaChödrönQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #calligraphy

climate change. war. poverty. so much suffering comes from greed, our aggression defending it, and our delusion that gives birth to it.

how has greed of others affected your life? how has greed within you affected yours and others’ lives?

an antidote to greed is generosity – towards ourselves and others. another is practicing gratitude and contentment. how do you practice gratitude?

we can regularly ask ourselves – do i need this? beyond my basic needs (food, water, clothing, shelter, wellness, friendship), what do i need?

~j

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#greed #RootPoison #suffering #gratitude #contentment #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #KenetsuTakamoriQuotes

as Mother Teresa once said, “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

there are many that promote division and an every person for themselves ideology. but such a severe individuality approach to life, doesn’t reflect reality as it really is, and can bring harm. it forgets that we belong to each other.

interdependence says that we belong to each other, that our words and actions and the thoughts that give rise to them, have an effect on others for good or for ill. “Am I part of the cure, or am I a part of the disease?” as the Coldplay lyric asks.

we can go about our lives on autopilot and reacting to life, or we can practice allowing space to see clearly, learning what our triggers are, and responding mindfully with lovingkindness and compassion to ourselves and others.

interdependence calls on us to embody empathy and compassion – to engage our world and participate in life for each other. one way to do this is to exercise our right, our privilege, our responsibility to VOTE.

go to vote.gov to register and check our info on your state if you haven’t already.

~j

#interdependence #CosmicOrder #reality #empathy #compassion #lovingkindness #EngagedBuddhist #vote #participation #democracy #JinpaLhaga #MotherTeresaQuotes #ColdplayQuotes #TaisenDeshimaruQuotes

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today would have been Thich Nhat Hanh’s 96th birthday/continuation day. 

a dear teacher to so many, Thay’s presence is missed yet still here in the community of monastics and lay practitioners who continue to embody his accessible, simple, profound Zen Buddhist teachings on mindfulness, open-heartedness, and being compassion in the world through words and actions. 

this teaching on Engaged Buddhism continues to bring benefit. as he says in this quote, “Compassion is a verb.” we must step off the cushion and take our mindfulness, our loving kindness to a world in need, in practical, beneficial ways.

may it be so.

~j

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#ThichNhatHanh #ThichNhatHanhQuotes #Zen #Buddhism #EngagedBuddhism #OpenHeart #compassion #mindfulness #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

Happy National Coming Out Day beautiful people!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

our authenticity in who we are and our open-hearted love are gifts to the world!

love is a super power! 💫

keeping loving yourself and others

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

~j

#NationalComingOutDay #LGBTQIA #gay #queer #LGBTQIApride #ComingOut #LoveIsLove #LoveWins #authenticity #OpenHeart #love #compassion #kindness #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga

are you registered? how about your family, your friends?

please #participate, #engage, and #vote as of #democracy depends on it – BECAUSE IT DOES.

Tuesday, November 8th, demonstrate your support for our representative democracy and VOTE!

~j
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Posted @withrepost • @ethannichtern
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28 days until November 8: an election that will determine whether this version of American democracy can live, or dies over the next few years. Believe me, I don’t like hyperbole, and I wish this was merely paranoia. It’s very clearly not, though. So many races will be decided by just a few percentage points, and any small change in turnout will mean everything. Please vote as early as you can where you are, and volunteer a few hours to helping get others to vote. Thanks to everyone who is showing up! Voting is as much a practice as meditation. Bows to all.