“If darkness hides the trees and flowers from our eyes, it will not hide love from our hearts.”
~ Khalil Gibran
somehow in the balance of holding and letting go, love arises, lighting our path, arriving in small and large ways, apparent and disguised.
love always finds a way.
~j
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#love #LoveIsTheAnswer #LoveIsTheWay #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #enso #art
“I’ve begun to see that love, like the breath, is the very essence of life. It is the life force that connects us; despite its many forms and expressions, it is just one frequency running through us all…”
~ Kaitlin Quistgaard
the truth seen by mystics of every spiritual tradition. beneath it all is vast, spacious, luminous love.
love is all there is.
such a profound, liberating message.
may open to it, may we drop all the barriers we build, and abide in it through this moment, all moments, and beyond.
~j
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#love #life #HereAndBeyond #mysticism #mystics #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art
we have to begin somewhere.
baby steps ⭕️♥️🙏🏻
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When you want to climb Everest, you start on small little hills first. Right? You learn how to climb. And as you learn how to climb, gradually, you start to approach higher, more challenging mountains. You don’t start with Everest number one. Right?
So, if you have learned how to deal with small difficult emotions which come up, that gives us confidence and gradually we learn how to deal with the more difficult powerful ones. The mind has to be trained. The whole of Buddhist practice is about training. And as with any training, you start small and then you build up. And then you develop the confidence that you can actually do it.
#meditation #OpenHeart #path #practice
tears flow
laughter songs
just be.
mindfulness, open-heartedness, these are practices for how we can be with life and its full array of diverse experiences.
rather than running or hiding from, or suppressing, or fighting off, we can approach and engage life with love, tenderness, and curiosity. it can be seen as a brave approach, but it is also a very gracious and generous approach, to allow the tears, to allow the laughter in equal measure, whatever arises with our experience, without judgment or criticism. this gives us the space to engage our life in the most beneficial way.
~j
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if interested, come practice with me. Self-Care Saturdays at 10am pst. mindfulness awareness and lovingkindness meditation practice. free or by donation. $10 suggested. link: https://linktr.ee/jaysenwaller 💫
#JustBe #tears #laughter #life #OpenHeart #mindfulness #awareness #lovingkindness #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #enso #Zen #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BuddhistArt #ContemplativeArt #art
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
so much beauty escapes our sight. we miss so much, but when we allow time to settle, to see, to look around with a sacred view, we see the sacred all around us.
~j
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#sacred #common #miraculous #beauty #love #life #wisdom #ClearSight #view #perspective #mindful #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #photography #backyard
“I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”~ Rumi
we travel so far and look in so many places for the love that resides right here within our own hearts. our true nature, beneath layers of ego, in a dance with Love, with the Absolute, with the Divine since beginningless time.
what or who can harm this? what or who can touch this and not be transformed in such Light?
~j
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#love #DivineLove #light #SufiWisdom #SufiMysticism #RumiQuotes #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BuddhistArt #art
i come back to these words from Sylvia Plath’s novel, “The Bell Jar” every so often.
i share them here again for all who are feeling the weight of being targeted and attacked in this moment, whose body autonomy and privacy are being stripped away, for those whose authentic existence is questioned and pushed into invisibility, for those whose embodiment of love isn’t seen as the sacrament it is, and for those whose history is being rewritten and erased.
you are worthy.
you are sacred.
you are life.
you are love.
you are here.
you ARE.
no one can take these truths away, no matter their ignorance, fear , or desperation in trying to do so.
~j
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#life #love #equality #liberty #YouAreLife #YouAreLove #YouAreSacred #YouAreWorthy #OpenHeart #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #SylviaPlathQuotes
Happy PRIDE San Diego!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
you are a beautiful, unique, manifestation of life and embodiment of love!
BE YOU!
🤍💗🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
may hearts open to the diversity, nuance, and colors of life and love.
may joy and wisdom arise, celebrating the diversity, nuance, and colors of life and love.
and where and when we fall short, may we do the work to learn and grow this world into a welcoming home to all.
~j
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#SanDiegoPride #Pride #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ+ #Queer #gay #GayMan #GayBuddhist #Buddhism #EngagedBuddhism #life #love #OpenHeart #path #practice #embodiment #celebration #diversity #Zen #enso #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #GayArt #QueerArt #LGBTQIAart #LGBTQart #art
“When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself…Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.”
~ Pema Chödrön
we can find resilience within love itself and our capacity for love and our capacity to love. when we realize that we are love itself and love simply IS, then we can have awareness that we are intrinsically connected to all other life, to life itself, to the Absolute which is both within and beyond our current circumstances and experiences, that our wounds carry within them this potentiality of love’s healing.
this engagement with our heart, with our wounds, with our experiences is not a one time journey. it is a practice we return to with patience, with care, with generosity, and grace.
~j
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#love #heart #OpenHeart #resilience #life #UltimateReality #AbsoluteReality #HereAndNow #GoDeep #compassion #tenderness #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #PemaChödrönQuotes
this is fantastic. simple, easy to remember number when in need. may it be beneficial, contributing to health and well-being, and saving lives ⭕️💙🙏🏻
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In the meantime, please continue to share 1-800-273-TALK (8255) to be connected with a trained, caring counselor.
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