Recovering our "original instructions"
"Community" Drawing by Jaya, February 2019 From the wonderful interview with Joanna Macy on the online "Power of Community" summit on...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 5, 20191 min read
Meditating together, times 8
Meditating together "Work and play: inner and outer change" 8 meditations Join one or all live sessions Listen to one or all of the...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 13, 20181 min read
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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 12, 20181 min read
"Watch out of the corner of your eye, open to possibilities, and what you seek will be revealed
The poetic botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer via Maria Popova, and thanks to Lisa Benson for sharing: "A Cheyenne elder of my acquaintance...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 12, 20181 min read
16 Dec--2 meditation events online "Love:" a day of Dharma "Creativity:" 90 minu
A full day or an hour and a half of Dharma with Jaya Tuning into the rest from where creativity and love flow. 16 December Schedule...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 26, 20181 min read
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 ...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 18, 20181 min read
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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 15, 20181 min read
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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 3, 20182 min read
"And when there is a promise of a storm, if you want change in your life, walk into it."
Sweet Honey in the Rock introduce their miraculous singing of "Wade in the Water," with this invitation/warning: "If you want change in...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 2, 20181 min read
"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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 25, 20182 min read
freedom always came nibbling at my thought.... the way everything in the world is waiting.
"Thus freedom always came nibbling my thought, just as—often, in light on the open hills-- you can pass an antelope and not know and look...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 18, 20181 min read
November: month of meditation with Jaya
Bringing it home, all the threads that weave a retreat: the radiance, quietness, intensity, transformation, upheaval, support,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 10, 20181 min read
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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Sep 27, 20182 min read
"Just simply asking people: What are your priorities?"
Atul Gawande raises questions that help us be as perfectly imperfect as we are--mortal and holding very specific things precious. He...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 7, 20181 min read
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,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 5, 20181 min read
Belonging
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/22/singularity-marie-howe-stephen-hawking/?mc_cid=1419e2bb1c&mc_eid=0e029d31f6
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 12, 20182 min read
Failure and the natural path
"Open mind, natural joy" In case you missed my 90-minute program on worlwideinsight.org on Sunday, 8 April, here is the mid-week...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 2, 20181 min read
Singing to the snakes
My talk "Snake handling" from Bodh Gaya in 2007 (photo from Khajuraho) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/08-snake-handling/id1167162388...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 28, 20181 min read
so they can have their own discovery
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen--radically generous... teaching to the conscious and unconscious minds--when the "mind of the room" shifts, then...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 21, 20181 min read
"You have sacred outlook."
Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or...
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