a reminder:

Indigenous people lived on this land for 15,000 to well over 20,000 years before Columbus arrived, with a population estimated at 60-112 million people. it is erroneous and harmful to consider a land “discovered” when sovereign Native nations with vibrant traditions, cultures, art, and spiritual practices filled with wisdom had been working in harmony with nature on this land long before Europeans arrived and colonized.the Earth calls for a return to harmony, a return to a recognition of interdependence and balance.may we listen to the wisdom of Indigenous voices, guardians of the Earth.

~j

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#IndigenousPeoplesDay

*🎨 the gorgeous art pictured: “Turtle Island” by, 2Spirit Ojibway Woodland artist, Patrick Hunter.

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being part of the solution.
being part of the healing.

we can do this by first taking care of our own mind and own heart. practicing mindfulness awareness, practicing lovingkindness, practicing being balanced and open hearted, embodying sanity and love.

this doesn’t mean we close ourselves off to the world. in fact, the practice is being with the world in its need. building up a capacity to keep our heart open. this begins with being able to be with ourselves. this is a path of brave warriorship, not fear. how many can sit with their darkness and offer it love and healing? how many of us are used to running away, pushing away, or simply ignoring. ignorance is not bliss. what we don’t transform within ourselves, we transmit to the world.

so, we can be aware of the troubles and suffering in the world, and out of the concern that arises, we can do the work needed to heal, even while those stuck in delusion and fear – who haven’t reconciled their own demons – through their words and actions bring destruction. moving from a place of fear, rather than love, brings destruction and suffering.

let us move from a place of love. this is our path, this is our practice.

~j
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#love #NoFear #bravery #courage #OpenHeart #SteadyMind #balance #sanity #healing #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #RamDassQuotes

words words words. 

we are so easily caught up in them – and then we are trapped, we argue, we fight, we go to war. there’s no room for revelation, for awe, for inspiration, for newness – for life.

better to keep a beginner’s mind, to just dive in. dive into the Mystery, dive into Love.

if we want to speak about God, then we should speak about how we love.

~j

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#god #mystery #love #JustWords #BeginnersMind #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #FredAlanWolfQuotes

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we think of love as a feeling, but thankfully this isn’t accurate. such thinking may work well for sentimental cards, but doesn’t really work so well for life. 

rather, love is something we commit to beyond feelings which come and go. it is something we make and take vows for. 

love calls us, sometimes by invitation and sometimes by demand, to show up over and over again, often in new and creative ways – for ourselves as well as for others.

love is work. 

it is path and practice.

~j

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#love #work #service #vow #path #practice #OpenHeart #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #UrsulaKLeGuinQuotes

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“It is this tender heart that has the power to transform the world.” 

~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

trust who you are beneath the hurt, beneath the fear and anger, behind the walls built up.

you are love. 

find a practice that settles the mind, and opens your heart wider and wider. 

it is the tender heart, that is the brave heart. it is the brave heart that has the courage to begin again, to show up time and time again, and be willing to embody love – to be love in this world during this life.

it isn’t about necessarily feeling it, it’s about moving from genuine tenderness and authenticity, which is a decision – a vow to do no harm or to at least harm less and less. we can trust this on our journey. we can trust love. we can trust the love living within us, loving through us.

~j

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#ChögyamTrungpaRinpoche #ChögyamTrungpaRinpocheQuotes #TenderHeart #OpenHeart #tenderness #transformation #power #bravery #love #embodiment #authenticity #vow #EngagedBuddhist #trust #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #photoart #art

reverence is a path and practice.

~j

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#reverence #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #MaryOliverQuotes

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silence. stillness.

these allow for space. out of that spaciousness, a sense of balance, of stability, and clarity can arise. 

still, quiet waters. 

a path and practice.

~j

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#silence #stillness #balance #stability #clarity #spaciousness #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #StillWaters #LauraFortgangQuotes #JinpaLhaga

using all that happens to benefit ourselves and others, to heal, to reduce suffering, to transform a world in need, is practice.

~j

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#UseItAll #path #practice 

Posted @withrepost • @kwanumzen 

“We don’t practice to get good things and avoid the bad things.” Quote by Zen Master Dae Bong. 

#zen #goodandbad #bodhisattva #helpothers #meditation #buddhism #kwanumzen

finger pointing to the moon, but not the moon…as the saying goes.

i love this explanation. no one has a copyright on Ultimate Reality, or whatever one’s tradition may call it (just words). we must allow room for Mystery, for a bit of humility as we engage our experience, this life (and beyond). having a Beginner’s Mind as Zen practitioners say, or the mind of a child as Jesus said.

BUT we can find a tradition that gives us a practice and helps us engage this Mystery and navigate a path.

~j
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#UltimateReality

Posted @withrepost • @jtenzinpalmo Jetsunma gives a great explanation of this topic concerning ultimate reality.

“Well, bless my soul. You’re a lonely soul. ‘Cause you won’t let go of anything you hold.” ~ Ryan Tedder

letting go, doesn’t mean we don’t care or stop caring. it means we recognize the pattern, the flow of life. 

all arises and falls away to arise again new. the pattern repeats. we see it in nature, in seasons, in the movement of day and night. when we can see this clearly in our own lives, we can be free of the suffering from holding on, from tightening our grip, from getting stuck. 

life is movement.

love is an open hand. 

let go.

~j

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#LetGo #allow #OpenHeart #OpenHand #life #love #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #enso #zen #calligrapahy #BuddhistArt #ZenArt #art #RyanTedderQuotes #OneRepublicQuotes