friends!

just 26 days until our 2024 Presidential election! our mail in ballots just arrived and we’ll be filling them out ASAP to drop off early.

do you have a plan? are you prepared and informed? are your family, friends, and neighbors registered?

it’s not too late to be engaged and involved. you can still make donations to support candidates who align with your values and who support democracy locally and across the nation. 

many states have already begun early voting. you can find them and other helpful information, including voting contingencies for hurricane impacted areas, at www.vote.org 

a #democracy is only as strong and resilient as its citizenry participates!

#VOTE

~j

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even while some draw their power and energy from the dark and deluded spaces of fear, anger, bitterness, vengeance, and greed, may we who are aware draw our power, strength, and energy from love. love, the most ancient from beginningless time, unbound and tender. 

an incessant march towards war with its oppressive force, isn’t the flex some think it is.

may ours be one of open-heartedness, transformation, unity, and healing. reminding ourselves – my power is my love.

~j

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#aggression #oppression #violence #war #peace #love #OpenHeart #path #practice #PlantingSeeds #SitDownRiseUp #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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sometimes 

when the darkness 

of delusion and

the noise of war weigh

heavy and

seemingly with no end

i remember…

this old thing.

resilience,

by one name.

open heart by

another.

then the path appears.

we are stronger 

than

we know.

~j 

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#HaveHeart #love #resilience #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #EngagedBuddhism #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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Be soft. 

Do not let the world make you hard. 

Do not let pain make you hate. 

Do not let the bitterness 

steal your sweetness. 

Take pride that even though 

the rest of the world may disagree, 

you still believe it to be 

a beautiful place.

~ 

Kurt Vonnegut

open heart.

path and practice.

~j

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#OpenHeart #tenderness #love #beauty #KurtVonnegut #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art

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we don’t influence people’s hearts and we don’t change the world through domination, through aggression or force. 

we influence hearts and change the world through the power of love, which is manifest in empathy and kindness, and made evident in our service to loving the whole of the world and all life. service born of love in action joined to wisdom, which is what we call compassion.

we make the world a better place by our healing of it, even while others in their delusion and fear seek war and destruction.

we make the world a better place by reminding it that it is loved and worthy of love, that its purpose is love, and that it is formed and reformed again and again by love.

~j

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#love #healing #nonaggression #nonviolence #peace #NoMoreWar #CeasefireNow #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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I get lost in the beauty of everything I see, the world ain’t half as bad as they paint it to be. ~ 

Ryan Tedder

there is a lot of work to do in making this world a more just, free, and equitable place. there is a lot of work to do in serving truth and love, and keeping the forces of tyranny and destruction at bay. but even as we work in service of love, truth, equity, freedom, and justice, we must not close our eyes to the beauty of this world. 

it is the beauty that is in this world, found in nature and in each other, that can fuel and energize our work. 

~j

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#beauty #world #love #service #work #SocialJustice #peace #OpenHeart #path #practice #RyanTedder #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #photography #flowers #FlowerPics

Happy Fall Equinox dear lovely people. 🍁🍂

may the turn of the seasons remind us that though change is a constant, there is beauty in the rhythm & cycles of life. each season’s end allows for the birth of another & the continuation of life. 

nature teaches.

no end – just change!

~j

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#FallEquinox #Fall #Autumn #seasons #life #nature #change #path #practice #enso #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

~

Richard Rohr

bravery is a practice.

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#bravery #OpenHeart #authenticity #mystery #path #practice #RichardRohr #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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I’m made of atoms, you’re made of atoms, and we’re all in this together.

~ 

Ben Lee

life, interdependent

dancing to 

the music of 

love.

~j

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#life #atoms #interdependence #music #OM #BenLee #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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align with love. connect with nature and life. keep focused. do the work needed with a heart of service for the benefit of others and all life (including yourself). let go. rest. rinse and repeat.

~j

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#bodhisattvas #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #love #OpenHeart #path #practice #NormanFischer #JinpaLhaga #JMWart