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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

~ Pablo Neruda

have hope friends, in the turning of seasons & the turning of hearts. life itself is potential & opportunity manifest. all of life comes together to support the return of balance & forward movement. flowing, flowing.

~j

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#life #nature #seasons #change #progress #peace #SocialJustice #resilience #potential #PlantingSeeds #OpenHeart #path #practice #PabloNeruda #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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every word & action of love in this world counts & can be of benefit. do what you can, where you are, with what is happening in the moment, & with whomever is present.

ripples }}}}}))))

~j

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#ripples #GoodWorks #RightSpeech #RightAction #OpenHeart #path #practice #bodhisattvas #PatrulRinpoche #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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our power comes from love, & it is discovered & motivated by befriending ourselves, opening our heart, & bearing witness to the world – seeing, listening, opening to what is happening, where there is need for care & healing. then we act from that space with mindfulness, confidence, wisdom, & compassion. 

we don’t need to follow the crowd, or be peer pressured.

we can follow our heart & wisdom instead.

~j

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#compassion #love #wisdom #confidence #BearingWitness #OpenHeart #path #practice #bodhisattvas #LamaZopaRinpoche #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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it’s #TransDayOfRemembrance. a day to remember & honor all those who have had their lives taken through anti-trans violence.

i recognize, honor, celebrate the sacredness of & stand in solidarity with my trans friends & all trans people. they are my neighbor & i will continue to love them.

meanwhile Trump/MAGA lawmakers & the GOP are scapegoating/targeting the trans community w/ threatening rhetoric & proposed policies that would strip trans people of their rights & access to needed medical care. 

imagine attacking a group of people who only make up 1.6% of the population & are already victims of hate & violence. it’s cruel & absent of love, harmful & complicit in deaths.

instead of attacking 1.6% of the population for being trans, here are some issues that actually need attention instead:

-16.9% of children in the US fall below poverty line.

-20% of children in the US don’t get enough food & don’t know where their next meal will come from.

-5% of children in the US don’t have access to healthcare.

may hearts open, may love prevail, & may we get our priorities straight.

~j

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#TransLivesMatter #LoveWins #NoHate #OpenHeart #LoveThyNeighbor #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“Tenderly I now touch all things, knowing one day, we will part.”
~ St. John of The Cross

one thing those who hoard & cling to power seem to always forget, is that all of this will fade away. their wealth, their power will not last. nothing material lasts. our bodies, our lives, & all the items we collect are of the nature to end. no matter who we are, where we are, or what we believe about what happens after this life, this one particular life we are currently living has a limited amount of time. perhaps somewhere deep down the people who hoard or cling to power do know this, perhaps this is why they are so desperate. no matter how much we cling or hoard, it cannot stop the inevitable. awareness of this, of our impermanence, can be a gift though just like this life, because it helps us to see how sacred this life is, how it is something to be cherished, how time is not to be wasted, how vital love is in how we relate to this world & all within it. money & constructed power fade, but the genuine power of our words & actions when born of love ripple through the lives of all that is around us into eternity.

~j

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#impermanence #life #sacred #gift #cherish #love #OpenHeart #tenderness #awarenss #path #practice #StJohnOfTheCross #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #enso

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path & practice.
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#OpenHeart #dignity #meditation #SitDownRiseUp #OffTheCushionIntoTheWorld #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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“Hope is often misunderstood.

People think it is simply passive wishful thinking.

This is the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.”

~ Dr. Jane Goodall

Rise, dear friends.

with your authenticity, your uniqueness, your beauty, your courage, your intelligence, your creativity, your awareness, your wisdom, your open-heartedness, your empathy, your tenderness, your compassion, your light & love. our world needs us.

Rise. 

~j

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#rise #engagement #action #hope #OpenHeart #path #practice #JaneGoodall #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #enso #calligraphy

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beneath this canopy 

of night,

glowing embers fill 

the sky

with the burning passion 

of Divine Love.

it is a gift

to just 

BE.

~j

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#life #gift #presence #sacred #love #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“I’m thinking about my heart. I guess you’ve heard sometimes it’s heavy. But I just keep moving. When I hit a wall I just look up at the sky.”

~ Ben Lee

the antidote to disconnection is connection.

sometimes, friends, what we need is some fresh air & some time in nature, to reconnect – to “recommune” with life. it is a salve to our wounds, equalizes our body, lifts our spirit, & reminds us of the sacredness present in the vastness & minutiae. take your practice outside – sit, walk, lay, stare into space, open to all the sounds & smells. be with the life you are.

~j

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#nature #life #interbeing #connection #communion #OpenHeart #path #practice #meditation #mindfulness #BenLee #JinpaLhaga

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the sea may be raging, my friends, but with intention & practice, we can learn to ride the waves with awareness, an open heart, clarity & resilience.

helping each other, we can learn to do this, together. this is love in action, & where there is the fullness of love, there is no space for fear.

~j

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#StormySea #RideTheWaves #love #OpenHeart #resilience #NoFear #community #sangha #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart