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keep going.

going forth with your heart open & your humanity intact. 

~j

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#KeepGoing #faith #hope #love #OpenHeart #JaneGoodall #JinpaLhaga #JMWart  

we must align with inclusive love even when others choose not to. even as we shine light on the dark & name harm. even as we push back against forces of oppression & destruction with fierce compassion, we must not contribute to aggression & violence. they solve nothing. they do, however, plant seeds whose fruit will be more aggression & violence.
say no to violence, say no to harm.
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SCOTUS has failed us. no doubt, this is a very dark chapter. with the SCOTUS ruling allowing T’s ICE to target for detainment & interrogation anyone they choose based on race, language, & accent who may appear to them to be an immigrant & whom they may assume is undocumented, more than ever we must be in solidarity with each other protecting our friends & family as best we can, knowing what we stand for & what ground we stand upon. 

love is the way.

love knows no bounds.

through it all, love continues.

they can’t stop love.

how will we embody the light & fierce compassion of love in this moment?

~j

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#immigrants #love #LoveIsTheWay #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy #art

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so full

so bright

she carries 

all of our sadness,

yet shines

oh!

to be luminous 

like the Moon!

~j

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#moon #love #life #shine #poetry #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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hearts broken open

meeting life in each moment

we carry the world

…

it is your love, our love, that inspires hope & courage within us to act in ways that heal, transform, create, & shine light in this world when all else may seem dark & hopeless.

we must not abandon our love, rather we must lean into it, despite whatever may appear contrary.

~j

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#OpenHeart #love #courage #hope #light #haiku #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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don’t normalize harm.

align with Love!

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#fascism #harm #democracy #love #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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i delight in the beauty 

of this moment, 

knowing that even now, 

it has already passed.

even through all that is happening, cherish your life, friends.

~j

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#impermanence #life #presence #cherish #beauty #delight #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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when oppressive powers appear to have the upper hand, it is easy to succumb to numbness, or cynicism, or rage. but this is what they want, to assume control by breaking us down, to cause us to forget who we are in love. it’s insidious really, but also so fragile, weak, & afraid. their power is desperate & depends on the acquiescence of others. fascism‘s appetite is insatiable & it will continue to take & attempt to consume, but we don’t have to offer up our minds or our hearts. our love, our being made of love, is something no power can take. it’s our divine & sacred right. it is our very own power we can connect to anytime we choose to, through the love of our families & friends, nature, our creativity & art, our jobs & careers, through the joy & warmth these areas of life & relationships bring to our hearts, reminding us of what is true, good, & lasting in & beyond this moment.

perhaps those in power have forgotten, maybe even lost who they are, bobbing around in their delusion, greed, & hatred. let us not lose ourselves. love the Light of Love, dear friends. harbor no darkness.

~j

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#love #light #OpenHeart #power #sacred #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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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.

~

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