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    Wending a way through
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Wending a way through

    "Curls of Love and Interest," drawing by Jaya Wendell Berry grappling with ideas about food, sexuality, gender, community... decades ago through the Lindisfarme community. Thanks to Karen Tibboji for sending me the link to this treasure trove of audio, in response to my wondering aloud whether Berry knew how much his poetry resonates with Indian spiritual traditions. https://archive.org/details/WendellBerryG12 #WendellBerry #deepecology #ecology #Inspiringlinks #awakening
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    Is there a gap between inner and outer change?
    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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    Meditating together, times 8
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    Meditating together, times 8

    Meditating together "Work and play: inner and outer change" 8 meditations Join one or all live sessions Listen to one or all of the recordings Just receive links to the sessions or to the recordings Or join the online forum to share insights, questions, struggles, artwork, links, music, good company, etc. "I am continually surprised how 'live' it feels, and how relevant the words and themes Jaya brings in." ~participant Teachings offered on a donation basis. Organizatio
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    Dying is safe
    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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