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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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