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"Only love is big enough to hold all the pain of this world."
~ Sharon Salzberg

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#love #pain #suffering #OpenHeart #path #practice #SharonSalzbergQuote #SharonSalzberg #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art

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"Ours is not a caravan of despair. Even if you have broken your vows a thousand times, it doesn't matter. Come, come yet again, come."
~ Rumi

every breath is a new opportunity to engage life in an open-hearted way, with empathy, with tenderness, kindness, wisdom and compassion.

~j
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#BeginAnew #BeginAgain #OpenHeart #empathy #tenderness #kindness #wisdom #compassion #path #practice #RumiQuote #Rumi #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

"The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks don't see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
That's the story."
~ Jack Kerouac

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#HereAndNow #OpenHeart #path #practice #JackKerouac #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Zen #enso

“Awakening isn't snobbish about where and when it reveals itself, so we probably shouldn't be, either."
~ Joan Sutherland

*full post w/ commentary:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/11/may-awakening-spring-forth/

may hearts open, may wisdom arise, and may awakening spring forth!

~j
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#awakening #OpenHearts #love #compassion #nonaggression #nonviolence #wisdom #bodhisattvas #Nagarjuna #JoanSutherland #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/09/even-the-small-things/

this can be our practice.

~j
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#nature #snail #RolyPolyBug #life #universe #sacred #OpenHeart #presence #interdependence #path #practice #RainerMariaRilke #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #BWphotography #photography

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the work or a lifetime.

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#delusion #truth #inwardjourney #OpenHeart #path #practice #RyokanQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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Enlightenment will be ours when we are able to care for others as much as we now care for ourselves.
~
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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#look #listen #care #empathy #kindness #compassion #OpenHeart #bodhisattvas #path #practice #interdependence #DilgoKhyentseRinpocheQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.

What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature, and its power is never diminished.

~
Deng Ming-Dao

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#nonaggression #nonviolence #TruePower #TrueInfluence #moon #nature #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #Taoism #DengMingDaoQuote

what we have is now, and now is always enough. this now, is the opportunity, the moment we have to engage our lives, to open our hearts and practice being present with our lives, and with all life around us.

each moment, only once.

~j
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#ThisMoment #now #presence #OpenHeart #engagement #path #practice #HaidakhanBabaji #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

“When you worship power,
compassion will look like a sin.”
~
Rev. Benjamin Cremer

a contemplation for our time…
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/03/a-contemplation-for-our-time/

~j
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#suffering #power #compassion #interdependence #OpenHeart #love #path #practice #SitDownRiseUp #EngagedBuddhism #bodhisattvas #BenjaminCarterQuote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

life is a flowing interweaving of interdependence. life is relationship. we don’t exist as separate from one another, or apart from other life…it can be our practice to take a wider and deeper view of reality.

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/02/the-tapestry-of-life/

~j
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#interdependence #interbeing #life #relationship #awareness #wisdom #OpenHeart #path #practice #RainerMariaRilke #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

allowing for the good and beautiful in life, is also a practice.

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/01/allow-for-the-good-as-well/

~j
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#life #BearWitness #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

it is a brave thing to practice a love that includes all who suffer, standing alone if necessary. but bravery, like the love that calls forth such courage, is a practice.

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/30/it-is-a-brave-thing-to-choose-love/

~j
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#bravery #love #suffering #empathy #compassion #deescalation #thoughtfulness #OpenHeart #SteadyMind #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #calligraphy

authoritarianism lacks true power, so it depends on hostility and violence, and fosters despair.
we can choose differently.

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/27/living-with-friendliness-free-from-hatred/

~j
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#friendliness #love #connection #joy #strength #kindness #peace #OpenHeart #TruePower #path #practice #BuddhaQuotes #Dhammapada #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

🌍 dear Earth, our home…

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/22/dear-earth-our-home/

~j
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#EarthDay #Earth #home #life #nature #interdependence #ClimateChange #OpenHeart #wisdom #bodhisattvas #ecosattvas #EngagedBuddhism #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art

“For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.”
~ Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha
(Dhammapada vs. 5)

*full text including additional verses and commentary:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/20/a-law-eternal/

~j
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#love #EternalLaw #EternalRule #UnalterableLaw #UnendingTruth #TheBuddha #SiddharthaGautama #TheDhammapada #BuddhaQuotes #OpenHeart #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #photography

tell me friend,
are you rooted?
where have you placed your roots?
how deep do they run?

don’t wait for the storm to arrive.
don’t wait for the ground to go missing beneath your feet.

time is of the essence!

let us find our footing & plant our roots deep in love which fuels our journey, our work, & our pursuit for what is true, just & healing.

~j
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#PlantingSeeds #trees #roots #love #life #OpenHeart #path #practice #EngagedBuddhist #photography #BWphotography #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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Mature spirituality
is not based on
seeking perfection,
on achieving some
imaginary sense of purity.
It is based simply on
the capacity to let go
and to love, to open
the heart to all that is.
~
Jack Kornfield

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#OpenHeart #love #life #LetGo #path #practice #JackKornfield #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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We need to stop being right.
Righteousness does nothing.
We need to start being wise. Wisdom wins.
There's a long game.
Play it.
~
John Patrick Shanley

there’s a lot of “righteousness” going around and not a whole lot of wisdom.

may hearts open.
may awareness, clarity,
and wisdom arise.

~j
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#wisdom #OpenHeart #path #practice #JohnPatrickShanley #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

so much suffering at the hands of delusion, grasping, & aggression. so many lives endangered, harmed, & lost to the hands of war.

may all beings be safe, at peace, & free from suffering.

*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/13/so-much-suffering-at-the-hands-of-aggression/

~j
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#aggression #violence #war #suffering #OpenHeart #awareness #wisdom #metta #RyokanQuote #JinpaLhaga #JMWart