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    Like wind in the sails
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Like wind in the sails

    Have you noticed small, practical things that help you fall more swiftly into meditation--or into insight or connection or prayer or...
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    A much wider thing than "how I'm doing"
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    A much wider thing than "how I'm doing"

    A page of notes and doodles from a conversation with Odelia Weinberg Peri. She remembered something in meditation, that is hard to find...
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    It's so much more about love than you'd think.
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    It's so much more about love than you'd think.

    Thinking can't even quite touch love. But loving is a taste of how big we are. Photo by Jaya Julienne Ashmore (c) All rights reserved.
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    Towards dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 5 min

    Towards dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power

    dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power
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    We are not asked not to be afraid
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    We are not asked not to be afraid

    Drawing by Jaya Ashmore, all rights reserved. We are allowed to take time to rest, to meditate, to dance. It can also be said: we have...
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    In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love...
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love...

    Restorative Justice Circles at schools in Oakland, California, (through the Mindfulness in Education group)--"what is hard about being a...
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    act with integrity, even ...in the most chaotic of shifts
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    act with integrity, even ...in the most chaotic of shifts

    Joy Harjo: We keep our hearts open no matter what happens, and act with integrity, even when we are in the most chaotic of shifts Photo...
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    We have just begun
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    We have just begun

    by Jaya Julienne Ashmore all rights reserved (c) 2019
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    A world upheld upon a breath...who dreams our lives I do not know
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    A world upheld upon a breath...who dreams our lives I do not know

    Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2019. Things are hard, and there is mystery we cannot speak, and who knows what we are. Poem below by...
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    like water, flowing around...second thoughts, not getting snagged, just continuing with thank you's
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    like water, flowing around...second thoughts, not getting snagged, just continuing with thank you's

    (Photo by Jaya in Rishikesh, (C )J Ashmore 2010) Distant Regard by Tony Hoagland If I knew I would be dead by this time next year I...
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    Whole, dewy, muddy.
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Whole, dewy, muddy.

    Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2015. (Papayas, not melons...) Coolness of the melons flecked with mud in the morning dew. Matsuo Basho...
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    2-year Dharma program with Jaya: all the details in one place
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 27, 2019
    • 6 min

    2-year Dharma program with Jaya: all the details in one place

    "Out of Nowhere" May 2019 - May 2021 Practice of embodiment, deep rest meditation, listening, community, generosity and spontaneity of...
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    Thoroughly willing
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    Thoroughly willing

    Photo by Jaya (c)Julienne Ashmore 2007. Whether you feel struck by lightning, or trickling with tears that may lubricate our inner...
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    The elixir of yes
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    The elixir of yes

    We gave more time for applications--til 15 May--for this 2-year Dharma program, a Dharma "ark," during these times of chaos, transition,...
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    Times for a radical practice: "nothing to worry about"
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    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,...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    Impersonal friendship and a new kind of mind

    Over the 9 years that I have offered online teachings, I have come to love the way themes and breakthroughs seem to happen around the...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    Out of nowhere, yes

    All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed. I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
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    Wending a way through
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Wending a way through

    "Curls of Love and Interest," drawing by Jaya Wendell Berry grappling with ideas about food, sexuality, gender, community... decades ago...
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    "When nature speaks, what does it want to say?"
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    "When nature speaks, what does it want to say?"

    "A million invisible helping hands" Drawing by Jaya From Bilal Qureshi's story on National Public Radio in the US, about Guerra and...
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    Is there a gap between inner and outer change?
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
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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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