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I have come into this world to see this: 

the sword drop from men’s hands 

even at the height of their arc of rage 

because we have finally realized 

there is just one flesh we can wound.

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Hafiz

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#WeAreOne #interdependence #interbeing #life #nonviolence #nonaggression #awareness #wisdom #OpenHeart #Hafiz #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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for some the phrase “Be Love” may seem a bit naive or over sentimental, but this is a misunderstanding of love. love is not primarily a feeling, like affection or attraction, or a sense of liking something or someone. love is a choice, a decision we make to prioritize the well-being of others without exclusion, in recognition of our interdependent relationship to them & to all life. it is a commitment to a life of non-harming. what could be more courageous, more intentional, more work oriented than that? it’s a practice that is relatively unending in its application. life will always give us more opportunity to expand our heart & its capacity to love, challenging our biases & efforts to make solid & fixed what is movement – what we can’t hold onto. loving is allowing life.

the far easier path, though always eventually unsuccessful, is to try to live by force & control. but this only leads to harm, destruction, & suffering. so the antidote in a time when those in power live by force & attempt at control, causing immense harm & destruction through their cruelty, is to choose love, to be love for a world in need.

at the same time, interestingly, love is who we are at our core, so when we choose to love, to be love, we are choosing to come back to our original nature before delusion, before fear, greed, & aggression. we are realigning with & affirming life. it is a choice toward harmony, rather than the choice of domination, made by some, which results in chaos & destruction.

may we choose to be love in this time as an antidote to forces of domination & chaos.

~j

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#BeLove #love #vow #practice #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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what is it that causes or allows, 

even in darkness and destruction, 

such light and beauty 

to still make itself known?

i call it love.

~j

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#love #light #beauty #awareness #flow #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.”

~ RainerMaria Rilke

each of us in this moment, have both the responsibility & the opportunity to look deep within our own hearts to see what matters most. what draws us closer love, to alignment with what is sacred, to what is beneficial for all life? in what ways can we train our minds & open our hearts to be more receptive & participatory to the flow of life? what reminds us of our interdependence in deep connection to nature in all life?

these are the spaces where we should invest our energy & time, not just for our benefit, but for the benefit of all, for the world. meeting with equal, if not greater measure: light to the dark, union to the division, healing to the harm & destruction, empathy & compassion to the indifference, & love to the hate.

~j

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#InwardJourney #source #life #sacred #love #OpenHeart #RainerMariaRilke #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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to love 

without reservation 

or hesitation

our hearts 

completely open 

courageously open

with fearlessness 

in the face of pain 

when all seems dark

this is our calling 

this is our task

to wake up this world 

reminding her 

that she is loved

~j

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#love #WakeUp #life #calling #courage #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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may all those who are 

pushing back against 

the darkness of this time, 

the cruelty, harm & destruction, 

& doing so with resilient love 

& fierce compassion, 

may they be blessed  & protected.

~j

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#TheHelpers #saints #bodhisattvas #love #resilience #FierceCompassion #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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it is reasonable to conclude that from single shooters to those in the highest offices, in our indifference & inaction, we are addicted to a culture of violence rather than a love for life. 

we are at no loss having scapegoating, deflections & distractions at the ready, but are seemingly consistently devoid of any lasting effort to find real solutions. 

prayers that are not seeds for meaningful action are empty of love & empty of value when faced with the continual slaughter of children by guns that are weapons of mass destruction.

~j

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#GunViolence

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“Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread, and held and carried by a hundred others.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

you are not alone.

it’s important to remember this, especially at this time as whole groups are targeted & divisive tactics are used by those in power. there is a great river of interdependence flowing throughout history that connects us all. when we are joined in our hearts with love, we express this unseen truth with beauty & resilience. it is a flow of love beyond space & time. not to diminish any harm being done or our need to respond to such harm with fierce compassion, but ultimately no outside force can disturb the flow of love which is always moving forward, opening, opening, opening.

~j

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#YouAreNotAlone #interdependence #love #flow #tenderness #resilience #OpenHeart #RainerMariaRilke #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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sitting. breathing. 

in this moment, i come home to myself. body & mind in union, with all life.

take a moment at the opening & closing of each day to love yourself, to simply sit & breathe, to feel the earth beneath you, rooted & held. to feel your lungs fill with air, receptive & open. to feel the air exhale, with freedom & release.

~j

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#JustSit #JustBreathe #meditation #mindfulness #path #practice #life #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King in his awareness & wisdom, is recognizing the truth of reality, that interdependence is the foundation of life as we know it – all things including people are interrelated, there is no separate “other.” Buddhism is really good at naming this directly & with clarity, but i would also suggest Jesus is saying something at least similar when he says, “Whatever you have done to the least of these you have done unto me.” 

when we create & name a separate “other” it is far easier to assign blame there or scapegoat & even dehumanize. we can dismiss the harm being done as having nothing to do with us. however, this is a short sighted  & self-centered view, that further solidifies the idea of a separate self from the “other”. simply put, it isn’t the truth & isn’t in harmony with the truth of how life is, or how life works, & it creates & supports a container for doing immense harm. we see this currently all over the world, but prominently in Gaza, & in our own streets with the scapegoating of immigrants, the tearing apart of families, & disappearing of people, & in devaluing the worth of others by taking away food assistance & healthcare.

holding a view of separation, that there is some “other” separate from us, we are in danger of becoming indifferent to harm at best, & contributors at worst, but both complicit in harm.

we should practice holding the view that “there is no other” for the benefit of all.

~j

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#interdependence #nonharming #AllLifeIsSacred #DrKing #MLKjr #JinpaLhaga #JMWart