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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.

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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