Have you noticed small, practical things that help you fall more swiftly into meditation--or into insight or connection or prayer or no-nonsense honesty an...

A page of notes and doodles from a conversation with Odelia Weinberg Peri. She remembered something in meditation, that is hard to find words for...but she a...

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.

dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power

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 the responsibility to...

Restorative Justice Circles at schools in Oakland, California, (through the Mindfulness in Education group)--"what is hard about being a teenager; what would...

by Jaya Julienne Ashmore all rights reserved (c) 2019

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 Kathleen Raine, with m...

We gave more time for applications--til 15 May--for this 2-year Dharma program, a Dharma "ark," during these times of chaos, transition, and fallout. "A di...