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Out of nowhere, yes
All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed. I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 25, 20191 min read
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"When nature speaks, what does it want to say?"
"A million invisible helping hands" Drawing by Jaya From Bilal Qureshi's story on National Public Radio in the US, about Guerra and...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 19, 20191 min read
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Dying is safe
Kathleen Dowling Singh: ~Dying is safe. ~Our fear of death is grounded in a strong sense of the 'I'" ...a transformation from perceived...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 13, 20181 min read
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The mind that comes to rest is tended In some ways that it cannot intend
Wendell Berry's words give us an understanding of why it is so hard to describe meditation ... "The mind that comes to rest is tended ...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 26, 20181 min read
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Keeping good company in the rain
Another old CD coming back to life--Handel's Messiah-- has kept me company driving in the rain this week. Listening and singing along...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 18, 20181 min read
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Dharma evening 17 Nov (this weekend!) & Meditating together 1-20 December
"Freedom" Saturday, 17 November, online--this weekend! 5:30-7 pm Spanish time Half an hour each of meditation, Dharma teachings, and...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 15, 20181 min read
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"That crazy girl has wooed the divine..."
Celebrating the craziness of just being yourself, and yet wooing the divine. Celebrating Kabir's kind of craziness. The swan of our...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 2, 20181 min read
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November: month of meditation with Jaya
Bringing it home, all the threads that weave a retreat: the radiance, quietness, intensity, transformation, upheaval, support,...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 18, 20181 min read
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Weekend Retreat 2-4 November
I am delighted to let you know I am offering a Streaming retreat the weekend of November 2-4...less than 1 month away. It is the first...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 10, 20181 min read
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true quiet
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees,...
Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 7, 20181 min read
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