Jaya Julienne AshmoreOct 1, 20103 minOpen DharmaOPENING 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;...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreOct 1, 20101 mina letter from jaya newsletter october 2010A recent cancellation leaves the sweet, rustic cottage available from October onwards. Gemmaji and I are happy to welcome one or two...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreSep 23, 20101 minOpen DharmaIt 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...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreAug 1, 20101 minon awakening newsletter august 2010The Israeli sangha Tovana recently asked a group of teachers, including Ajay, Jaya, Christopher, Shaila, Stephen Fulder, and others, for...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreAug 1, 20101 mina letter from jaya newsletter august 2010Revolution kept coming to mind and heart at The Stone House retreat in North Carolina in July. On the opening night, the I Ching (Book...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreJul 1, 20101 mina letter from jaya newsletter july 2011Jaya writes about May's deep rest retreat at the Moulin de Chaves, in France... Last year flood, this year drought the inner spring keeps...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreJul 1, 20101 mina letter from jaya newsletter july 2010One thousand white petals on the curving concrete path to the hall. The retreat at le Moulin in France last week had the texture of...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreNov 26, 20091 minpostcard Tiru January 2009Galaxies of golden dragonflies swirling over the well Rain splashes through the new roof, geckos bark, purple lotus closed in the...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreMay 3, 20081 minpostcard Sierra de Gredos May 20083 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...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreMar 16, 20071 minParmarth 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...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreFeb 9, 20071 min35-day retreat in Kotdwar, 20071. Day 2 During cleaning in the hall 3-inch black scorpion Outside boys throw lumps of clay over the wall at our private interviews,...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreJan 12, 20071 minBodh Gaya post card 2007The Tibetan girl in red and black plays the Chenrezig game—walks with eyes closed from one corner of the temple across white marble ...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreDec 7, 20061 minBad Meinberg, Germany, 2006Germany. Cold-winter-colorless April East Germany: Cheap ice cream, bakery white buns, women’s hair nets white aprons, harsh look...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreDec 1, 20068 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...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreNov 2, 20061 minTrinity Mountains, California, 2006A green tarp roof; a green tarp floor. Walls of air, open to redwoods, ants. Hummingbirds throb by our cooling heads, and mosquitoes...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreSep 30, 20061 minJerusalem post card september 2006dawn soft naked lavender jasmine breath spills in and out chicken rhythms, white stony barely hills barely green— where green, dark...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreJul 1, 20061 minMexico post card july 2006unripe lupines jewel birds attacked trees still grow barred cottages organic milk salad of diced cactus tomatoes are green jicamates...
Jaya Julienne AshmoreMay 27, 20061 minSaskatchewan canada post card may 2006In my dreams I was Naked, I was uncovering the ancient sites, carved stone secrets of a harmonious people. In my waking, I was in...