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just offer it. 

offer it all up to the altar of life.

all that you’re going through, feeling, experiencing, without exception.

offer it all up with your love.

allow your offering to connect you to others going through & experiencing the same.

this is loving community & loving community is resistance to abusive power.

~j

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#offering #AlterOfLife #life #love #community #sangha #resistance #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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where the work begins…

who are we excluding from love?

our open hearts are our strength & the beginning of our work to be instruments of empathy, tenderness, compassion – of healing, of love.

rather than agents of chaos, harm, & destruction.

what energy are you currently offering this world? how do you want your life to be remembered? what imprint shall you leave? 

align with love, not with harm.

~j

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#OpenHeart #love #TheWork #offering #empathy #tenderness #compassion #healing #bodhisattvas #path #practice #JinpaLhaga

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“Only love 

fills the empty spaces 

caused by evil.”

~

Pope Francis

love through it all, my friends.

it is the heartbeat of the universe, the harmonic wave flowing through life, presenting itself, making itself known in every moment & breath.

~j

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#love #OpenHeart #path #practice #PopeFrancis #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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may our commitment to love & our practices embodying love, inexhaustible, rain down as healing medicine upon this suffering world. 

may such love empower hope within others, & clarity in seeing that there is possibility beyond old patterns of harm & suffering, that our open hearts & wisdom can support a reality of equity, justice, compassion, & peace.

~j

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#MedicineBuddha #healing #love #OpenHeart #wisdom #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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there are good people. 

people centering love, empathy, kindness & compassion. 

people devoted to democracy & the common good.

people who haven’t given up on the pursuit of equity & justice, on ever opening the to full inclusivity of all who have been marginalized, so everyone has a seat at the table.

…doing all of this, committed to all of this, even in the face of those who would destroy everything to gain & keep power.

may we, also, be such people in this time. in doing so, we are participating in hope, & with hope, a hope centered in love & community, all things are possible.

~j

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#hope #love #community #GoodWork #OpenHeart #kindness #compassion #equity #justice #bodhisattvas #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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This is what we’ve been practicing for: the situations where the practice doesn’t come easily. When the winds of change reach hurricane force, our inner refuge of mindfulness, concentration, and discernment is the only thing that will keep us from getting blown away.

~

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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#path #practice #OpenHeart #refuge #precision #clarity #gentleness #bodhisattvas #ThanissaroBhikkhu #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #photography

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i read the Bible. i was baptized &  went through two years of study & was confirmed in the faith in my younger days. 

i am a Buddhist now, & i still follow Jesus’ teachings, because he showed how to BE love in this world. the Buddha’s teachings give me a way & practice to do just that – be love.

so i’m still all about that Golden Rule. i stand w/ immigrants & refugees this day & every day, & every hour of every day.

may all of our hearts open as Jesus & as the Buddha to those around us wherever they are from, in need, all sacred, all more worthy than our temporary constructed borders. 

may we open the borders of our hearts.

~j

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#immigrants #refugees #TheGoldenRule #Jesus #Buddha #OpenHeart #WWJD #WWBD #path #practice #JinpaLhaga

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“Is the dark side stronger?”

~ Luke

“No…no…no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.”

~ Yoda

events are unfolding so quickly – aggressively, with cruelty & indifference to suffering.  this can feel overwhelming & disheartening – which is the tactic of fascism.

but life has a way of regaining balance in the long arc of things, due to the goodness & love within the hearts of those who are grounded with moral integrity & love itself which is infused into every part of life & seeks such balance. that which burns most aggressively & fast, will also burn out sooner. nothing here lasts forever save for love. misaligned power & cruelty will find their end.

breathing. keeping focused. keeping our hearts open, our bravery quivering, with patience & endurance, contributing with others to the good, to that which is love & healing – compassion, kindness, & peace will prevail.

~j

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#patience #endurance #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #light #OpenHeart #path #practice #MindfulResistance #TheForce #StarWars #Yoda #enso #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.”

~

Tacitus

my heart breaks & is with the Palestinians. the world has failed them. Netanyahu’s thirst for vengeance, power, & greed, for annihilation of a people, found little resistance from Biden & has now found a home with Trump. history will record it as genocide & ethnic cleansing at the hands of a extremist far right Israeli  government, with the US complicit.what wars & terrorism will this birth? seeds planted for a violent future.
may the world in unity condemn this imperial, colonial ideology which is counter to life itself. may we continue to choose love & healing in the face of such evil, & may it manifest as fierce compassion to put a stop to harm.

~j

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#Gaza #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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path & practice,

bodhisattvas.

~j

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#OpenHeart #OpenEyes #caring #compassion #service #path #practice #bodhisattvas #PatEnkyoOHara #RoshiPatEnkyoOHara #JinpaLhaga