🌀

when joy arises

i enjoy what is joyful

and then i let go

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

practicing life with an open heart and open hands, is a practice of gratitude, freedom, and peace.

#ThisMoment #freedom #gratitude #LetGo #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #haiku #calligraphy 

🌀

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong 

with the world.

~

Paul Farmer

may we awaken to awareness of our interdependence, our shared interconnection, to the interbeing of our existence and reality. may we see, as the Sufi poet and mystic Hafiz stated, that “there is just one flesh to wound.”

may such awareness move our hearts to open in empathy, kindness, and gentleness towards all life, a life beautiful and rich in its diversity. and with such wisdom arising, may we work with our minds to no longer excuse, accept, or embrace cruelty, harm, and destruction.

may love and our choosing to practice love, to commit to a path of love, to surrender into our embodiment of love, be a healing and restorative force in our world.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#IAmBecauseWeAre #Ubuntu #interdependence #interconnection #interbeing #awareness #wisdom #OpenHeart #empathy #kindness #gentleness #EngagedBuddhism #path #practice #vow #PaulFarmerQuote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #enso #calligraphy

sharing this Washington Post article because it points out how the anti-LGBTQ+ bias/bigotry started at the top with the people who hold positions of power and promoted anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policies.
a reminder that harmful anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric with anti-LGBTQ+ people in positions of power leads to tremendous harm and possibly death.

may hearts open and sanity arise.
~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

Posted @withregram • @washingtonpost

Nex Benedict collapsed the day after an altercation in a girls’ bathroom at the public high school they attended, a school where relatives say the 10th-grader had been bullied for being nonbinary.

Owasso is a Tulsa suburb of about 40,000 in the northeast corner of Oklahoma where this year state legislators already have proposed more than 50 anti-LGBTQ+ laws — more than any other state, according to the ACLU.

The man who heads public education in Oklahoma is also a vocal critic of LGBTQ rights. Superintendent Ryan Walters appointed Chaya Raichik — the conservative activist behind Libs of TikTok, which has targeted LGBTQ-friendly teachers at Owasso schools — to a state library advisory board.

Owasso police said Tuesday that results of an autopsy are pending. Officials are also awaiting a toxicology report before deciding whether to refer the case to the Tulsa district attorney’s office for potential charges, according to Lt. Nick Boatman.

Read more from this story at the link in Washington Post IG bio.

🙏🏼

the insane cruelty of this. a sacred life cut short due to hate, fueled by harmful rhetoric sourced in fear and ignorance.

not just the students, but the teachers? the school officials?
the level of inhumanity continues to astonish me.

we as a society have failed you Nex. we have failed to protect your precious and sacred life.

to my trans and nonbinary friends/family. i love you and cherish your embodiment of love and life in this world. you are worthy of life, worthy of safety and non-harm, you are worthy of happiness and love in all its flourishing. may you thrive.

for those who support such bigotry, fear, hate and harm, may you wake up in heart and mind. may awareness, empathy, clarity, and love awaken and arise within your heart and mind.

may we all be free from suffering.

~j
⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#NexBenedict #nonbinary #trans #LGBTQ #Queer #TransRights #HumanRights #LoveWins #NoHate #OpenHeart #empathy #path #practice #JinpaLhaga

IG slides credit: @genzforchange 🙏🏼

Zen pretty much comes down to three things — everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

 ~ 

Jane Hirshfield

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#Zen #ZenBuddhism #impermanence #change #interconnection #interbeing #JustThisMoment #presence #OpenHeart #path #practice #JaneHirshfieldQuote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #ZenCircle #enso #art 

🌀

hello friends – 

i want to share three verses i wrote a few years ago, that have become part of my morning practice along with prayers and reciting mantras, prior to sitting meditation.

i wrote these verses for myself at a time when i was trying to find balance in my capacity to be with life, holding all of what life brings with love, yet also having the wisdom and ability to let go, to set an intention to live a life of love that is also free flowing and not grasping, to have a practice that i could engage in at the start of each day. spoiler alert – still using these!

i hope they may be of benefit to you and your practice as well.

may hearts open and may wisdom arise.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

may we have 

the capacity of heart 

to hold the entire world 

and all of life,

and may we have

the wisdom of mind

to let go.

may we hold 

all of life with love,

and with love, 

may we let go.

may we align with love, 

may we abide in love, 

may we embody love,

may we let go into 

the flow of love.

may it be so.

#love #wisdom #OpenHeart #LetGo #intention #path #practice #gathas #verses #JinpaLhaga

Watch out for each other. 

Love everyone and forgive everyone, 

including yourself. 

Forgive your anger. 

Forgive your guilt. 

Your shame. Your sadness.

Embrace and open up your love, 

your joy, your truth, 

and most especially 

your heart.

~

Jim Henson

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#communtiy #sangha #love #OpenHeart #forgiveness #path #practice #JimHensonQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #Buddha

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

🌀

such a profound teaching.

especially when so many of us feel lacking in worth, in a culture that so often sees aggression and violence as the answer to the world’s problems.

we have what we need within us to be of benefit, to be a force for love and healing in our world. 

a world of love, of kindness, and peace is possible, and it begins within the rawness we regularly avoid, our own tender hearts. and then outward into our lives and relationships, and even further into the world, this gentleness ripples.

may hearts open in all their tenderness and may wisdom arise.

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#love #tenderness #gentleness #OpenHeart #path #practice #bodhisattvas #ChogyamTrungpaRinpoche #ChogyamTrungpaQuotes #JinpaLhaga 

💖

love is the source,

the compass,

the means of navigation,

the journey,

and destination.

“My work is loving the world.”

~ Mary Oliver

our vow, our practice, our path can be one of love.

vast, luminous love, expansive love that includes all, even the dark and cold spaces we tend to avoid. love the shadow into the light. be the moon reflecting the light of the sun in the dark of night. 

imagine the impact, imagine the benefit, imagine the healing we can bring into our relationship with ourselves, with others, with the world if we choose a path of love, if we choose to embody love. 

love it all!

may it be so.

Happy Valentine’s Day, lovers!

~j

⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#ValentinesDay #love #OpenHeart #path #practice #MaryOliverQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #calligraphy