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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 26, 20181 min read
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 ...
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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 2, 20181 min read
"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...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 7, 20181 min read
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,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 8, 20181 min read
Beginning in blessing
Painting by Jaya Julienne Ashmore Though your destination is not yet clear, You can trust the promise of this opening, Unfurl yourself...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 21, 20161 min read
Living
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun, each day the...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jul 1, 20121 min read
Jaya wrote this little poem while on retreat in Holland in July newsletter august 2011
Jaya wrote this little poem while on retreat in Holland in July. gentle back... why bother thinking? the whole of creation rises up...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 26, 20091 min read
postcard Tiru January 2009
Galaxies of golden dragonflies swirling over the well Rain splashes through the new roof, geckos bark, purple lotus closed in the...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 3, 20081 min read
postcard Sierra de Gredos May 2008
3 May, 2008 Sierra de Gredos, Spain, morning This morning I went out in the blue-black to beat the forgotten wake-up gong. The white...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 16, 20071 min read
Parmarth Niketan Ashram, India, 10-day retreat, March 2007.
Between orange schoolhouse—boys in yellow—and parking lot/cricket field, our meditation hall. In the parking lot 8 white cars wear red...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 9, 20071 min read
35-day retreat in Kotdwar, 2007
1. Day 2 During cleaning in the hall 3-inch black scorpion Outside boys throw lumps of clay over the wall at our private interviews,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jan 12, 20071 min read
Bodh Gaya post card 2007
The Tibetan girl in red and black plays the Chenrezig game—walks with eyes closed from one corner of the temple across white marble ...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 7, 20061 min read
Bad Meinberg, Germany, 2006
Germany. Cold-winter-colorless April East Germany: Cheap ice cream, bakery white buns, women’s hair nets white aprons, harsh look...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 2, 20061 min read
Trinity Mountains, California, 2006
A green tarp roof; a green tarp floor. Walls of air, open to redwoods, ants. Hummingbirds throb by our cooling heads, and mosquitoes...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Sep 30, 20061 min read
Jerusalem post card september 2006
dawn soft naked lavender jasmine breath spills in and out chicken rhythms, white stony barely hills barely green— where green, dark...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jul 1, 20061 min read
Mexico post card july 2006
unripe lupines jewel birds attacked trees still grow barred cottages organic milk salad of diced cactus tomatoes are green jicamates...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 27, 20061 min read
Saskatchewan canada post card may 2006
In my dreams I was Naked, I was uncovering the ancient sites, carved stone secrets of a harmonious people. In my waking, I was in...
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