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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min
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 Jaya, Copyright Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2019.) I've been hearing these questions frequently in recent weeks.
In the face of ecological turbulence, for example, where do we reach for our response? What do we do and from where do we find a real willingness to be here and meet our situation fully?
I'd like to share and get real with these and oth
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Meditating together, times 8
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Dec 13, 2018
- 1 min
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 tragedy to experienced grace.
I realized that what I had been witnessing in the process of dying was grace, all around, shimmering and penetrating. I became aware that all of the observed qualities of the Nearing Death Experience point to the fact that there is profound psychoalchemy occurring here, a passage to deeper being. There appears
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
- Nov 26, 2018
- 1 min
The mind that comes to rest is tended
In some ways that it cannot intend
Wendell Berry's words give us an understanding of why it is so hard to describe meditation ...
"The mind that comes to rest is tended
In some ways that it cannot intend
Is born, preserved, and comprehended
By what it cannot comprehend." ~ Wendell Berry, from 1979 in This Day
The naturalness of deep rest meditation
the deeper nature of resting. The resonance
of generosity...the sheer ongoingness
that giving is and does...
Wendell Berry giving into his poems, along
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