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    Like wind in the sails
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Like wind in the sails

    Have you noticed small, practical things that help you fall more swiftly into meditation--or into insight or connection or prayer or...
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    A much wider thing than "how I'm doing"
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    It's so much more about love than you'd think.
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    Towards dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 5 min

    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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    We are not asked not to be afraid
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love...
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    We have just begun
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    We have just begun

    by Jaya Julienne Ashmore all rights reserved (c) 2019
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    A world upheld upon a breath...who dreams our lives I do not know
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    The elixir of yes
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    May our practice and our lives be dedicated to the momentum of awakening for all,

    including ourselves.

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