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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 17, 20177 min read
Jaya on teachers
from the Open Dharma newsletter, December 2016 On retreat sometimes people ask to hear “my story,” how it has been and how it is for me...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 27, 20164 min read
Home stretch
If a new human life depends on so much care, attention, energy, and skillfulness, then what may be needed for awakening in spiritual...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 1, 20154 min read
Nothing in the Way newsletter theme april may 2015
~ Nothing in the Way At the Delhi airport last week, I sat blurry with fatigue, and nursed a latte during the dark first hours of the...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 1, 20154 min read
Unwrapping Openness newsletter theme february march 2015
~ Unwrapping Openness Walking a round shady block with my son Gyan when he was three, I answered his history questions under steady oak...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 1, 20144 min read
Nudge and Flow newsletter theme december january
~ Nudge and Flow In my twenties, I neglected to practice meditation for several years. I was in a spiritual group, our entire lives...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 1, 20143 min read
Peace Upon Peace newsletter theme october november 2014
~ Peace Upon Peace Some people think deep rest is taking a break from life. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of rest, meditation,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 1, 20141 min read
twitter nov 2014
Seeing: a dialog, commitment includes ancestors & questions, What do I need to do for you to be free? -Orland Bishop...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Sep 1, 20142 min read
Monthly Theme for August and September newsletter 2014
Monthly Theme for August and September Last week I was a super hero to my kids, for a few minutes. Visiting my mom, my kids and I...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 1, 20141 min read
The Head of the Thoughts newsletter theme june july 2014
~ The Head of the Thoughts A brother asked an old man: What shall I do? For many thoughts are bothering me, and I don’t know how to fight...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 1, 20143 min read
Instigating Freedom newsletter theme april may 2014
~ Instigating Freedom Last summer on retreat in the redwoods of California, someone new arrived with two books as gifts. For Gemma,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 1, 20143 min read
Instigating Freedom newsletter theme april may 2014
~ Instigating Freedom Last summer on retreat in the redwoods of California, someone new arrived with two books as gifts. For Gemma,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 1, 20141 min read
Blindness newsletter theme february march 2014
~ Blindness. Jaya read this poem by Ikkyu (translated by Blyth) on one of the retreats in Tiruvannamalai in January. "Apologies for not...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Sep 1, 20132 min read
Pushed and Held newsletter theme august september 2013
~ Pushed and Held Pressure. Usually retreat is where we learn how to live at ease without the "pressures of daily life." But we also find...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jul 1, 20132 min read
Opinions,communication,and finding ourseves bigger newsletter theme june july 2013
~ Opinions, communication, and finding ourselves bigger. Over the last year or so, I have noticed that many times when we human beings...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 1, 20133 min read
Beyond the Mirror newsletter theme may 2013
~ Beyond the Mirror Recently a scientific study accidentally found empathy in a monkey. The monkey's brain was all wired up for an...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 1, 20131 min read
Cellular Change newsletter theme april 2013
~ Cellular Change In a video of human cells at the beginning of life--even before the cells are called "embryo"--nothing changes for what...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 1, 20131 min read
Happening newsletter theme march 2013
~ Happening Some days, it happens--maybe at a change of season. We feel light. There is a spacious sense of time because we are between...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jan 1, 20132 min read
Why I Have Lived in India All These Years newsletter theme december january 2013
~ Why I Have Lived in India All These Years Why I have lived in India all these years, or half of it, is the afternoons. The afternoon...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 1, 20121 min read
Soul Moments nesletter theme december 2012
~ Soul Moments What is it like when, during the course of a day or a night, we happen to feel our deep ineradicable sweetness as human...
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