Dharma talks with Jaya Ashmore
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAn international Dharma teacher since 1999, Jaya Ashmore guides listeners to the heart of meditation and freedom in her talks. She draws from and brings to life ancient texts from diverse traditions, modern poetry and science, and the tenderness and power of our puzzling human experience.
With over 30 years of meditation experience primarily in India, Jaya evokes transformative depth and joy in all of life--from daily life, to meditation basics and more subtle areas.
Her fresh, unique and practical talks give voice to an abiding reverence for life.
A unique and pioneering force in the Dharma world, Jaya reminds people from any or no religion to rest into their own direct contact with aliveness beyond ideas.
Her nonprofit Open Dharma has offered teachings and retreats on 5 continents.
For more information, please visit http://www.opendharma.org
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#07 - Courage and Joy
October 27, 2016 19:11 - 1 hour - 109 KBThis talk is quite long and discusses some deep concepts but is well worth listening to until the end. In fact, it rewards repeated listening. Beginning with a discussion on the nature of Joy, the talk encourages us to maintain our practice even in the face of difficult emotions. Jaya maps a path through rocky terrain, suggesting we use the tools of Curiosity and Friendliness. This in turn might begin to feel like Courage and Joy, and that might ultimately lead one to an experience of non-dua...
#06 - Giving Birth to Our Wildness
October 27, 2016 19:11 - 55 minutes - 109 KB#05 - No Rehearsal
October 27, 2016 19:11 - 54 minutes - 109 KB#04 - The doors have opened
October 27, 2016 19:11 - 1 hour - 109 KBThis talk speaks about discrimination in a positive sense...seeing what doesn't need anything more from us, and just enjoying. Growing the ability to see what is worthy of our attention. Living what calls us. Through modern poetry and stories from the Buddha’s time, Jaya brings the teachings closer to our daily lives’ practice.
#03 - Unstruck Song
October 27, 2016 19:11 - 56 minutes - 109 KBThis talk is an invitation to increase our sensitivity to what’s underneath, into the depth and into listening beneath habit.
#02 - Resting Power
October 19, 2016 19:11 - 59 minutes - 109 KBIn this talk Jaya speaks about a friend who recently died, and who was a person who was able to deliver supreme teachings and daily life/lightening teachings and groundedness. Jaya discuss her own experience with turbulence in the mind, with the 5 obstructions and the idea that if you are experiencing turbulence in your meditation, you're in line with meditators throughout time. Unleash the mind at rest. Release the mind from habits, the ways it's been formed and letting it be at rest. And ...
#01 - Voice
October 19, 2016 19:11 - 1 hour - 109 KBThe voice and the wisdom we search for is present in each of us. All the things we do to find peace and to reach spiritual enlightenment can mask the reality that the peace we seek is already here. This talk is an invitation to stop reaching outside of ourselves because what we are looking for in the core of our being.