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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 1, 2010
    • 3 min

    Open Dharma

    OPENING WELCOME! WELCOME to one and all to Open Dharma’s face book page. This is page is OPEN to everyone, as written in the first feed;...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 1, 2010
    • 1 min

    a letter from jaya newsletter october 2010

    A recent cancellation leaves the sweet, rustic cottage available from October onwards. Gemmaji and I are happy to welcome one or two...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Sep 23, 2010
    • 1 min

    Open Dharma

    It doesn't matter if you're an artist, a lawyer, a healer, saddhu, a traveller, a monk or a millionaire, dark or light, female or male, a...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Aug 1, 2010
    • 1 min

    on awakening newsletter august 2010

    The Israeli sangha Tovana recently asked a group of teachers, including Ajay, Jaya, Christopher, Shaila, Stephen Fulder, and others, for...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Aug 1, 2010
    • 1 min

    a letter from jaya newsletter august 2010

    Revolution kept coming to mind and heart at The Stone House retreat in North Carolina in July. On the opening night, the I Ching (Book...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Jul 1, 2010
    • 1 min

    a letter from jaya newsletter july 2011

    Jaya writes about May's deep rest retreat at the Moulin de Chaves, in France... Last year flood, this year drought the inner spring keeps...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Jul 1, 2010
    • 1 min

    a letter from jaya newsletter july 2010

    One thousand white petals on the curving concrete path to the hall. The retreat at le Moulin in France last week had the texture of...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 26, 2009
    • 1 min

    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, 2008
    • 1 min

    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, 2007
    • 1 min

    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, 2007
    • 1 min

    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, 2007
    • 1 min

    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, 2006
    • 1 min

    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
    • Dec 1, 2006
    • 8 min

    “Call me a pregnant woman”

    Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could “plow like men, and pick cotton by...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 2, 2006
    • 1 min

    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, 2006
    • 1 min

    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, 2006
    • 1 min

    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, 2006
    • 1 min

    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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    Bhimtal, 2 month retreat, 2005
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Jan 1, 2005
    • 1 min

    Bhimtal, 2 month retreat, 2005

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    May our practice and our lives be dedicated to the momentum of awakening for all,

    including ourselves.

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