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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 21, 20191 min read
Times for a radical practice: "nothing to worry about"
Dharma week 24-30 April: Who are we in the world? "Nothing to worry about" doesn't mean "everything is going great." It just means,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 29, 20192 min read
Impersonal friendship and a new kind of mind
Over the 9 years that I have offered online teachings, I have come to love the way themes and breakthroughs seem to happen around the...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 25, 20191 min read
Out of nowhere, yes
All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed. I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 20, 20191 min read
Wending a way through
"Curls of Love and Interest," drawing by Jaya Wendell Berry grappling with ideas about food, sexuality, gender, community... decades ago...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 14, 20192 min read
Is there a gap between inner and outer change?
Is it self-indulgent to commit to so-called inner work? Is it avoidance if we devote ourselves to so-called outer work? (Drawing by...
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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
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 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
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
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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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 15, 20181 min read
midwifing "big mind," birthing insight
"Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could'“plow like men, and pick cotton...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 12, 20184 min read
What are we here for?
I don't always like to use this kind of question--we don't need to earn life by being useful. So many people have a nagging feeling that...
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