~ Leaving Papaji liked to say we are all living in a transit lounge. Other teachers have compared our temporary existence to more...

~ Silver Lining If we don't go to extremes, it can be fun to discover what we love about what we hate. Byron Katie encourages us to think...

~ Atmosphere A radiant scientist named Sraddhalu Ranade outlines an alternative to conventional education which is based on an industrial...

~ Getting Lost When I was about 18, my college roommate and I won a trip to Bermuda for spring break. I danced the 24-hour marathon, and...

~ Irreversible We like to keep our options open. Having options is nearly synonymous with wealth these days. So it can take decades...

Jaya wrote this little poem while on retreat in Holland in July. gentle back... why bother thinking? the whole of creation rises up...

~ Space and Intimacy When a tree has enough space, it can thrive. In isolation, it might suffer drought, or it might not receive the...

If the mind were blank, what would be left? Is it enough? Is it enoughness? These were meditation instructions I gave a few days ago...

~ Depths I loved when Papaji (Poonjaji) talked about depth. He used to say that a human being can go deep. And that in itself is good to...

~ Transmission One and a half years ago in a NYC workshop, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen talked gently about transmission. In a way we could...

~ Pause The end of the calendar year can act as an excuse for a pause. We can just glimpse and taste ourselves and the stretch of our...

~ Standing Out Watching a 1-year-old child stand up is a revelation. After lying, rolling, sitting, kneeling, sliding, and crawling for...

~ Thinking for Ourselves. What are my thoughts? How many of our opinions are genuinely our own? A few sparks for the exploration:...

-October Outbreath. Change is in the air, and it can be freeing. Some suggestions below; please feel free to add yours. Just an...

Slinky September, the month of Wild Walking. On our retreats, we explore walking as well as lying down, sitting, eating, sleeping,...

Jaya writes about May's deep rest retreat at the Moulin de Chaves, in France... Last year flood, this year drought the inner spring keeps...

Jaya writes about April's Deep Rest retreat in Catalonia, Spain. Every day rain. The first retreat where each teacher was also mothering...

A Note from Jaya Gemmaji and her mother went to check on Dharmaloca last week, and the fox (is it the same one still?) pranced around the...

Sarnath 2011 was one of my favorite Dharma Gatherings. A new phenomenon: some India fans normally in India for months at a time came this...

Dharmaloca's water, filtered by the holy mountain Montsant. The pharmacist in our market town: There are 2 possible outcomes when testing...