May the brave people working to deliver aid to Gaza be protected. 🙏🏻 May those people illegally abducted from the boats be safe. 🙏🏻 Calling all Angels. #GretaThunberg #Gaza #Flotilla

“Terrible things are happening. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” - —Anne Frank #Portland #Chicago #Tyranny #ICE This is not normal. We cannot act like it is.

Autumn life shining into Upaya Zen Center's Taizando, Serene Mountain Hall. With this, my heart turns toward Gaza.

How things appear and how they actually exist ~ 14th Dalai Lama https://justdharma.org/how-things-appear-and-how-they-actually-exist/ #14thDalaiLama #inherentexistence #appearance #negation

Recently, Dame Jane Goodall was asked who in the world she hoped to meet who inspired her, and she replied, “Greta Thunberg.”

“We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.” - Dr. Jane Goodall

My mind was not my friend today. Onward. #Buddhism #Mind #Hegseth

Something I rarely discuss but today, I’m all up in my feelings. 100 years ago, I was a young female officer in the USAF. The lessons learned have served me well. Watching Hegseth & Trump order these leaders to corrupt their oath and honor, I’m speechless. And sick. #Veterans #Hegseth #Treason

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

We all have a Shadow to deal with. #Jung #shadow #grief

Apologies for another meme but this…. #Buddhism #memeculture

The Department of War has landed in Portland. My friend wrote: “THEY’RE EATING THE KALE! “THEY’RE EATING THE TOFU!” #Portland

Weekend pursuit. This is Annaka Harris’ new audio documentary, with wild contributors and collaborators. It’s a welcoming “guided tour of the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness. “ The mystery!! open.spotify.com/show/5KNrTzu...

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

TGIF.

Calling out to all of our Buddha Nature. May this energy field bring peace to those suffering today. #watercolor #art #watercolorartist #peace #Buddhism #love

A friend called their Mother and asked if she had, in fact, taken Tylenol while she was pregnant for him. His Mom told him, “Maybe once or twice but only when I had a really bad hangover.” 🤦🏼‍♀️ #Tylenol

I can’t count the number of elderly men who came to our meditation classes at San Quentin. But I can say that most didn’t belong there, many after 40+ years, for non-violent crimes. If you met them, you’d agree. Inhumane. #prisonreform #dharma #aging www.aclu.org/publications...

I saw this meme. It hit a psychic nerve. What are we doing/being here? #dharma #awareness #mahamudra #films

Tylenol does not cause autism. Full stop. #fascism #tylenol #autism

Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, didn’t recover his reputation by bringing Jimmy Kimmel back. A high price to pay to get his deal passed through the FCC. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. #Disney #JimmyKimmel #BobIger #censorship #fascism

Tribes have now given place to nations; and this has happened because rulers found that it was possible, by means of suitable education and propaganda, to transfer the quasi-instinctive sentiment of tribalism from its natural object to a new, artificial object—the nation. ~ Aldous Huxley

For years I volunteered leading meditation in CA prisons. I learned about SolitaryWatch.org and became a pen pal to people living alone in cement boxes. My current pen pal is 34 y/o, in Georgia, 4 years in the hole. It’s a quiet lifeline. 🙏🏻 #prison #writing #dharma boltsmag.org/designed-to-...

"The most mature practitioners are not necessarily the ones who have heard the highest levels of teaching. They are the ones who let the light of dharma truth shine through all facets of their lives." —Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche #mahamudra #buddhism #tibetanbuddhism

“ Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts.” —Karl De Schweinitz, 1924

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Story time. I often go a few miles from home into an old-growth redwood grove. It’s where I meditate, journal, or simply sit in my “spot.” Yesterday, carrying the weight of the world, I went there again. I was feeling adrift from all the negativity of the US right now. 1/4

Thinking about renewed and aggressive oppression of monks in Tibet and Thailand. Non-violence isn’t the same as passivity. To relieve suffering, sometimes you speak up, or resist. That’s still Right Action. In fact, compassion asks: if not you, who will ease suffering? #Dharma #EngagedBuddhism

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“What we call aura may one day be understood as the signature field of consciousness — the soft armor of sentience.” —Octavia E. Butler #art #watercolors #sciencefiction #peace #mystics #painting #aura #watercolor #consciousness

I’ve been writing more about political turmoil than I meant to. Needed, maybe—but not the whole of me. I’m retooling to focus again on what I love most about connecting here with you. #mindtraining #peace #interdependence #Dharma #friendship

My favorite part of the Kash Patel press conference is that he’s a Hindu man telling a deceased Protestant, with a Mormon Governor standing behind him, that he’ll meet him in the Pagan afterlife. #charliekirk #kashpatel #cult

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Via Thich Nhat Hanh

That time you leave your cat with someone you really trust….and then you get this photo and “Everything’s fine here”. #cats #burmesecat #catMom

Surprised when progressives call ourselves “leftists.” It’s a trap. The left/right frame is there to create a myth of symmetrical extremism. It makes an observer think that those who want everyone to have guns and those who want everyone to have healthcare are equally crazy. Abandon it.

Opinion: Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah by a cisgender man, but trans Americans were wrongly dragged into the tragedy by misinformation and amplified by conspiracists and bigots. An apology and respect is owed, writes Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière.

Too soon? #CharlieKirk #fascism #darkhumor

In the spirit of naming what is: A Republican man k*lled another Republican man at a Republican event and the response from Republicans was to threaten the lives of Democrats. Right? OK. #charliekirk #fascism #HeritageFoundation #MAGA

Update. After 3 nights in a reflecting pool during the Moon’s eclipse, they’re cleared and charged with super planetary energy. I think it worked because my favorite crystals are beaming. 🌎🙏🏻 #crystalgeek #astrology #moon #crystals #Milarepa #frequencyhealing

I just saw a comment that said “I don’t support what happened to Charlie Kirk. But Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.” And I feel that.

With all the great planetary energy this week, I put my most precious crystals in fresh water to absorb the Moon’s eclipse for 3 nights. 🙏🏻 #crystalgeek #astrology #moon #crystals #Milarepa

“When you allow gun ownership, you’re going to have gun deaths. There is a cost to liberty.” -Charlie Kirk

Word.

The Great American Experiment died today. The Supreme Court killed it. What do we call ourselves now? #SCOTUS #RacialProfiling #Democracy #Racism #Dissent

What is. Everything connects. Everything in the Universe is unfinished. Love is the answer. ☮️ #art #watercolor #Dharma #peace #painting #meditate #interdependence