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    "When nature speaks, what does it want to say?"
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    "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 Gallego's film Birds of Passage: Amidst huge changes freighting a culture never previously colonized in Colombia, South America... "...it is the women ... who sense that something is wrong. The Wayúu are a matrilineal society, and in dream sequences and natural omens, only the women foretell the impending chaos. "One of the key omens are the
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    Dharma evening 17 Nov (this weekend!) &
Meditating together 1-20 December
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    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 dialog and inquiry. Have fun with meditation, silence, community, and the inner power that shakes us free from a pervasive sense of trouble and not-enoughness. Discovering the well of goodness in us, that comes forth not from demand and stress, but through enjoying a love of life and radical honesty. Email shahar@opendharma.org --with "17 N
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    "You have sacred outlook."
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    "You have sacred outlook."

    Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or sacredness come from? Is it sacred because it comes out of the ultimate alaya? VCTR: You could say that. Ultimate alaya at least holds the potentialities of the whole thing. We could say that samsara came out of some kind of freedom. That is the basic logic of why anyone can attain enlightenment. RK: In meditation, is our approach to identify with
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    a few drawings from this month
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Aug 8, 2017
    • 1 min

    a few drawings from this month

    In preparing for the upcoming online courses, I started playing with a simple instruction: make a character from simple shapes like circles, squares, rectangles and/or triangles. And here came a little magician. #JayasArtwork
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    fierce oh 001 9 x 13 cms A.jpg
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Jan 28, 2017
    • 1 min

    fierce oh 001 9 x 13 cms A.jpg

    #JayasArtwork
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    offerings 2.jpg
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 6, 2016
    • 1 min

    offerings 2.jpg

    #JayasArtwork
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    invisible sunrise 9x13 cms
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 6, 2016
    • 1 min

    invisible sunrise 9x13 cms

    #JayasArtwork
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    invisible sunrise pink silver mahogany violet 9 x 13 cms
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 16, 2015
    • 1 min

    invisible sunrise pink silver mahogany violet 9 x 13 cms

    #JayasArtwork
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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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