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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,...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 21, 20191 min read
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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 Julienne Ashmore
Feb 14, 20192 min read
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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...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 13, 20181 min read
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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...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 15, 20181 min read
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"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...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 3, 20182 min read
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"That crazy girl has wooed the divine..."
Celebrating the craziness of just being yourself, and yet wooing the divine. Celebrating Kabir's kind of craziness. The swan of our...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 2, 20181 min read
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November: month of meditation with Jaya
Bringing it home, all the threads that weave a retreat: the radiance, quietness, intensity, transformation, upheaval, support,...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 18, 20181 min read
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Weekend Retreat 2-4 November
I am delighted to let you know I am offering a Streaming retreat the weekend of November 2-4...less than 1 month away. It is the first...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 10, 20181 min read
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true quiet
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees,...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 7, 20181 min read
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"You have sacred outlook."
Trungpa! (VCTR = Vidhyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Ringpoche, below...) (painting by Jaya) RK: Where does the sense of enlightenment or...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 21, 20181 min read
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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...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 15, 20181 min read
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Power of okayness
Knowing we are okay, even in all our weirdness and tenderness, can give rise to the joy and confidence that makes our spiritual path come...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 18, 20171 min read
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Taking meditation on a walk: New youtube video
In the Himalayan foothills, I got to use Tom Riddle's GoPro camera to walk through the woods to the lake--Tomji's idea, and camera--and...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 5, 20171 min read
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