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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 25, 20191 min read
A much wider thing than "how I'm doing"
A page of notes and doodles from a conversation with Odelia Weinberg Peri. She remembered something in meditation, that is hard to find...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 17, 20191 min read
It's so much more about love than you'd think.
Thinking can't even quite touch love. But loving is a taste of how big we are. Photo by Jaya Julienne Ashmore (c) All rights reserved.
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 12, 20195 min read
Towards dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power
dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 7, 20191 min read
We are not asked not to be afraid
Drawing by Jaya Ashmore, all rights reserved. We are allowed to take time to rest, to meditate, to dance. It can also be said: we have...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 28, 20191 min read
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love...
Restorative Justice Circles at schools in Oakland, California, (through the Mindfulness in Education group)--"what is hard about being a...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 26, 20191 min read
act with integrity, even ...in the most chaotic of shifts
Joy Harjo: We keep our hearts open no matter what happens, and act with integrity, even when we are in the most chaotic of shifts Photo...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 22, 20191 min read
We have just begun
by Jaya Julienne Ashmore all rights reserved
(c) 2019
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 25, 20191 min read
A world upheld upon a breath...who dreams our lives I do not know
Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2019. Things are hard, and there is mystery we cannot speak, and who knows what we are. Poem below by...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 20, 20192 min read
like water, flowing around...second thoughts, not getting snagged, just continuing with thank you's
(Photo by Jaya in Rishikesh, (C )J Ashmore 2010) Distant Regard by Tony Hoagland If I knew I would be dead by this time next year I...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 1, 20191 min read
Whole, dewy, muddy.
Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2015. (Papayas, not melons...) Coolness of the melons flecked with mud in the morning dew. Matsuo Basho...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 27, 20196 min read
2-year Dharma program with Jaya: all the details in one place
"Out of Nowhere" May 2019 - May 2021 Practice of embodiment, deep rest meditation, listening, community, generosity and spontaneity of...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 26, 20191 min read
Thoroughly willing
Photo by Jaya (c)Julienne Ashmore 2007. Whether you feel struck by lightning, or trickling with tears that may lubricate our inner...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 23, 20191 min read
The elixir of yes
We gave more time for applications--til 15 May--for this 2-year Dharma program, a Dharma "ark," during these times of chaos, transition,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 21, 20191 min read
Times for a radical practice: "nothing to worry about"
Dharma week 24-30 April: Who are we in the world? "Nothing to worry about" doesn't mean "everything is going great." It just means,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 29, 20192 min read
Impersonal friendship and a new kind of mind
Over the 9 years that I have offered online teachings, I have come to love the way themes and breakthroughs seem to happen around the...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 25, 20191 min read
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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 20, 20191 min read
Wending a way through
"Curls of Love and Interest," drawing by Jaya Wendell Berry grappling with ideas about food, sexuality, gender, community... decades ago...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 19, 20191 min read
"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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 14, 20192 min read
Is there a gap between inner and outer change?
Is it self-indulgent to commit to so-called inner work? Is it avoidance if we devote ourselves to so-called outer work? (Drawing by...
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