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Happy Summer Solstice beautiful people! ☀️

may our light of love shine bright and warm, bringing benefit to all. ☀️

~j

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#SummerSolstice #sun #light #warmth #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art

there’s been so much collective trauma these past few years with the pandemic, social unrest, rise in outward racism, attacks on democracy and education. it’s tough stuff. not to mention any of us who have experienced personal health crisis, loss, etc. it can be easy to just see the wounding, the destruction, the hurt, and lose sight of the healing and transformation that also takes place daily in individual lives and collectively.

we all will experience illness, loss, and eventually death. this is the course of life, the state of being in this world. however, we are alive NOW. we can experience and connect to life NOW. we can open ourselves to love NOW. we can have some level of mental, emotional, spiritual, and perhaps even physical healing NOW.

may we never lose sight of this. when we see harm and destruction, may we remind ourselves there is also healing. may we look to those who heal. may we be ones who bring healing. may we embody a state of wellbeing. 

i offer this art of the Medicine Buddha as a reminder. there are practices that go along with this image if one is a Buddhist, but i simply encourage each of us to find the reminders of healing within each of our traditions and connect to the Source of healing that is beyond our traditions and interpretations. perhaps this image can be a reminder of just that – that healing and wellbeing are available, in this world, and within us.

wishing you all health and wellbeing.

~j

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PS – i’m offering a free digital print of this to all of my Patreon members at all levels. levels begin at just $3/month. become a supporter today to receive this digital print, along with other digital art prints, plus other benefits.

link: https://linktr.ee/jaysenwaller

PPS – i’m also thinking of having prints made if there is interest. prints would be $20 including shipping and handling.

#MedicineBuddha #health #wellbeing #healing #transformation #love #OpenHeart #CalmMind #SteadyMind #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #art #BuddhistArt #EnsoArt #MedicineBuddhaArt #HealingArt #JMWart #JinpaLhaga

“Nonviolence is NOT sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”

~

Martin Luther King, Jr.

so much of violent speech and action comes from a place of fear and desperation. some of it also comes from greed and an obsession with power and often a fear of not staying in power. in both scenarios there is a basic ignorance of who we are and how we are interconnected and interdependent with the rest of life. in many ways violence is the lowest path and unevolved. 

we are called to and capable of something better, something beneficial and in line with our humanity and the sacredness of life – we are called to and capable of  love. 

love is the most powerful and transformative force, bringing forth, propelling, and sustaining life. yet love chooses non-violence. love transforms hearts and minds. there is an opening, a flowering. this is something violence can never achieve. violence brings a tightening, a hardening. violence brings harm, destruction, and death.

may we choose wisely.

may our choices come from a place of sanity and open heartedness.

~j

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#ChooseNonViolence 

#nonaggression #nonviolence #RightAction #RightSpeech #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #LoveWins #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #MLK #MLKquotes

JUNETEENTH, also known as Freedom Day, originated in Galveston, Texas, when Union Army General Gordon Granger proclaimed by order the freedom of enslaved people in Texas. this was a 2 1/2 half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

ironically and sadly, here in 2022, some states including Texas are making it difficult if not illegal to teach this history due to racism based in ignorance and fear, in an effort to control a narrative fiction regarding US History. 

in the spirit of JUNETEENTH and the divine truth that a free life devoid of oppression and subjugation is an inherent right for all, we must continue to inform with the truth of our history (all parts – bad and good) through political engagement, education, and art.

of note – the US Congress with President Biden signing into law on June 17, 2021, made JUNETEENTH a Federal Holiday.

~j

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#Juneteenth #FreedomDay #EmancipationProclamation #GeneralOrderNo3 #freedom #history #education #art #engagement #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

interested in original zen ensos and calligraphy contemplative art? 
let’s collaborate – great for gifts and home decor. please see example of commissioned and gifted art attached. DM for pricing if interested.

~j

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#art #OriginalArt #CommissionedArt #ZenArt #ZenEnsos #ensos #calligraphy #BuddhistArt #ContemplativeArt #MeditativeArt #contemplation #meditation #GiftIdeas #HomeDecor #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

#ChooseLove

~j

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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer… Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like.

~ 

John Lennon

#JohnLennon #JohnLennonQuotes

#peace #path #practice

grateful to see some friends joined the #MarchForOurLives event today! 

i was planning to attend as well, as i had 4 years ago in 2018, but was thrown a curveball this week when after two years, Covid finally visited the Waller house. all are doing well, most have gratefully evaded it so far. grateful for a weaker variant, vaccines and boosters, and therapeutics! feeling quite fortunate.
have loved seeing some of the signs from the march. in a spirit of solidarity with March For Our Lives, the desperate need for sensible #GunReform, and with all those who participated today, i’m sharing some pics from my experience with the 2018 march.

may open hearts and sanity prevail.

may we rise above this crisis to choose life over guns of war.
~j

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#OpenHeart #sanity #path #practice #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

pretty much.

clever is impressive for a moment.kindness is impressive for a lifetime.

cleverness seems more about ego, whereas kindness seems more the blossoming of love.

may kindness be our practice and path.

~j

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#kindness #lovingkindness #OpenHeart #path #practice 

#AbrahamJoshuaHeschelQuotes

#JinpaLhaga

“I am one with the Force and the Force is with me.”

we first hear this mantra when Chirrut Îmwe says it in repetition in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. although not a Jedi, Chirrut is a member of the Guardians of the Whills, an order of spiritual warrior monks devoted to the Force and beliefs of the Jedi. we also hear this mantra spoken by Ahsoka Tano in The Clone Wars.

i love it. it’s a great mantra. it reminds us that we are not alone in our efforts or in our lives. we are part of something vast, that is within us, and around us. this can be a beneficial reminder in times of struggle and challenge. you can just as easily replace “the Force” with another word to your liking that resonates for you and your practice: Life, Love, Tao, God, etc.

sometimes when we have a lot of energy moving around in our body and/or our mind is racing and unfocused, we can use a mantra. this gives us a focus for our attention and something to do with our body and mind together. Buddhism and Hinduism use mantras and some contemplative forms of Christianity, including Catholicism use prayers similar to mantras. i’m sure there are others in other traditions as well. if you don’t have a mantra in your tradition or perhaps you don’t have a spiritual tradition, maybe give this one a try and substitute with a word that supports you in your life, or simply use “the Force” however it resonates for you.

~j

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#TheForce #Tao #God #Life #Love #mantra #meditation #contemplative #path #practice #StarWars #spirituality #Jedi #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga

this most recent debate (can we call it that when one group won’t even budge or be moved by such loss of life???) on gun accessibility and gun violence, reminded me of this quote by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg that i shared originally during the middle of the pandemic when the simple steps of masking and social distancing were major conflict points even as loss of life mounted. now over 1 million lives lost. how many could have been averted, saved, still living?

it’s one thing to not know what to do in a crisis, when surprised by life events. it’s another thing all together to know what to do and refuse to do something about it, or when not knowing to refuse to try to do something about it.

as the pandemic continues and we just move ahead, as children’s lives and other innocent life stacks up due to gun violence, bodies unrecognizable from the gaping damage caused by weapons and ammunition of war in the hands of 18-year-olds, we should remember and repeat to ourselves and others:

“Mass death is not inevitable.

Preventable death is not inevitable.”

we have the capacity to be present with this, although it is difficult. within our hearts we have the capacity to be empathetic, we have the capacity to be kind and compassionate within us. are we willing to bear witness, to see the harm and suffering? are we willing to be moved by love into compassionate action?

~j

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#GunReform #GunViolence #responsibility #empathy #compassion #participation #RabbiDanyaRuttenbergQuotes #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga