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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Letting go is not about loosening a rope—it is about realizing the rope was smoke all along. The error was never in failing to untie it but in mistaking it for something solid. Ronald E. Purser tricycle.org/dailydharma/...

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How to Let Go

Letting go is not about loosening a rope—it is about realizing the rope was smoke all along. The error was never in failing to untie it but in mistaking

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In September, I was diagnosed with #uterinecancer. I had a total hysterectomy + bilateral salpingectomy-oophorectomy. During pathology they found I also had stage IC2 mixed high grade serous + endometrioid #ovariancancer in my right ovary. I finished chemo in March and am now considered NED.

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"Locating safety doesn’t mean avoiding the world’s problems. It means meeting them from a place where our choices are not hijacked by fear." tricycle.org/article/safe...

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Safety Resources for Discordant Times

A teaching and practice on finding sanctuary amid life’s turbulence

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In this clip, Pema shares a delightful story and demonstrates how we can tap into inner strength, or lungta, by channeling our inner Obi-Wan Kenobi. #lungta #Dharma #InnerStrength youtube.com/watch?v=s-Rz...

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Pema Chödrön: Train Like a Jedi

YouTube video by Shambhala Publications

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Empires collapse not because they accept impermanence, but because they fight against it. This talk explores the parallels between empire and ego, politics and karma, history and the path of liberation. #Impermanence #FallOfEmpires #Buddhism #DharmaTalk youtube.com/watch?v=b8xH...

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Decline and Fall of the American Empire Part 1 - Every Empire is Impermanent!

YouTube video by The Theory of Samsara

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Peace, happiness, well-being in the world will be gained once you learn to control your own mind. And in order to do that, you need to cut away all the conditions that carry your mind away like a leaf in the wind. #Dharma #Mindfulness #Practice youtube.com/live/pIvhFdL...

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American Culture of Political Violence and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk is live!

YouTube video by The Theory of Samsara

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Venerable Thubten Dekyi weaves together a number of ideas for transforming challenging societal situations into constructive collaborative processes. #Dharma youtube.com/watch?v=KcVA...

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Bearing Witness As Protest 08-19-25

YouTube video by Sravasti Abbey

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I’m deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Larry Ward, a #Dharma teacher whose wisdom and presence profoundly shaped my path. His teachings helped me find peace in chaos and clarity in complexity. I’ll carry his voice and compassion with me always. 🙏🏻🪷☸️💖🥺

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"It's not a bad thing to have anger rise. It's not a bad thing to have heartbreak rise. It's not a bad thing to have joy or pleasure rise. The issue here is what we do with that energy. This is not meant to be judgment. Its meant to be encouragement to practice deeply." youtube.com/shorts/dKfj_...

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Walking Through Awareness: Calming the Mind | Dr. Larry Ward

YouTube video by The Lotus Institute

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'm so grateful for the points Venerable Tenzin Namjong makes about how we shouldn't weaponize #Karma as a means of shaming or blaming people for their circumstances, and that we should help people regardless of how they came to be in the situation they are in. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 youtu.be/Ic-XTwvbZk4?...

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Dharma for Difficult Times: Applying the Buddhadharma in Daily Life with Ven. Tenzin Namjong Class 2

YouTube video by The Buddhist Center

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It's been written that avoiding harsh speech means that we shouldn't say things that are displeasing or unwanted by others. If this were true, we would never be able to raise difficult subjects with those who refuse to acknowledge their own harmful behaviors. youtu.be/r0RvsMBnP9k?... #RightSpeech

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The Slippery Slope of Right Speech, A Dharma talk by Rev. Enya Sapp, Shasta Abbey.

YouTube video by Shasta Abbey Dharma Talks

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The delightful Bhante Rahula speaks about how conscious gratitude and recollection of one's virtue can serve as a cure for the various ailments of the mind. Watch til the end where he talks about the important role the heyoka, or sacred clown, plays in our lives. youtube.com/watch?v=1Mb7...

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One Hundred Years of Gratitude: A Timeless Recollection of Goodness | Bhante Rāhula

YouTube video by Clear Mountain Monastery Project

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"If lawyers are afraid of what will happen to them if they stand up and oppose the government, then the whole system begins to falter." open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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The ABA Declares War

Trump tried to first “kill all the lawyers.” Now the lawyers have hit back.

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Calm @calm.com · 18/06/2025

Sometimes acts of kindness and/or silliness are the best antidotes to the horrors persisting. 💙

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Gen Demo, a Buddhist nun and Resident Teacher in Kadampa Meditation Center talks about practicing with the chronic disease Multiple Sclerosis (MS). #Dharma #Buddhism #Meditation #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain youtube.com/watch?v=h2Gu...

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I WOULDN’T WISH THIS ON ANYONE BUT I WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING

YouTube video by The Modern Buddhism Podcast

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and leadership coach/journalist Jo Confino look at one of the foundational teachings of Buddhism: the Three Jewels - the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. youtube.com/watch?v=1MPh...

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The Three Jewels | TWOII podcast | Episode 89

YouTube video by Plum Village App

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Join an action on June 14th. We don't have much time before our democracy is entirely destroyed and American life becomes a horrific hellscape. I am not exaggerating. I wish I was. Find your nearest No Kings event or start a new one: www.nokings.org

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No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If every Democrat in Congress, Governor, Mayor, and state/city/town leader called for people in the streets and a general strike, we could end this madness now.

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Who else has been enjoying this season of The Masked Singer?

Meme from Walking Dead with Rick Grimes yelling "Coral!" at Carl Grimes after Carl had to put Lori down when she turned into a walker after dying during childbirth. "Coral" is a spoof of how he pronounces Carl.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

www.upaya.org/.../awarenes... AWARENESS IN ACTION: "Solidarity" Online, free Roshi Joan, Sun May 4, 11:00AM-12:30PM MT, offers the next session of Awareness in Action, bringing the importance of solidarity to keep our democracy open.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog... the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. www.reddit.com/r/cybersecur...

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From the cybersecurity community on Reddit: Detailed account of DOGE’s breach of NLRB

Explore this post and more from the cybersecurity community

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Maitrijen⁷ @maitrijen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Bingo.

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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order of this court.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented."

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Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law

High court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"The Mandala of Socially Engaged Buddhism is a tool that helps people connect with ways of engagement that may resonate more authentically for them, and that may be more strategic given the situation."

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🪷 Christopher 🪷 @coffeeshopsage.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you're planning on attending your local protest tomorrow, good on you. Be safe, and know that you are part of the rising force against this administration. However, it doesn't stop there. Keep the wheels turning, and work on the next steps. There's a long road, and a lot to do. We need you.

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This talk explores the practices of living a daily life with loving kindness and examines the ways to overcome the self-centered attitudes that keep our hearts from opening fully to others. youtube.com/watch?v=bwhY...

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Making Kindness Your Religion (1) with Gen Don Handrick

YouTube video by The Buddhist Center

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Jill Connaway 🪷 Wondrous Peace Heartmind @jill-connaway.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Bodhisattva Power Engaged Buddhismfrees us all from samsara.We have the power. "The way out is in." That's what Thich Nhat Hanh once said. And I believe him. By awakening our Bodhisattva nature we'll save each other.

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Bodhisattva Power

Engaged Buddhismfrees us all from samsara.We have the power. "The way out is in." That's what Thich Nhat Hanh once said. And I believe him. By awakening our Bodhisattva nature we'll save each other.

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Jamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Israel is the US's colonization project in Western Asia.

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Kevin White @kevinwhitejr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

At the center is “this regime must fall” and the reasons for that are many. We’ll be marching, maybe dying, shoulder to shoulder with NeoCon Republicans, wine moms, anarchists, communists, union members, former government workers, maybe even bankers if it gets bad. The focus is the uniting animus.

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