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Call Ami at 415 840 6719

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    • Why Ashram?
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      • Clinical Internship
      • Who Are the Interns?
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  • Home
  • About
  • Services
  • Why Ashram?
  • Events
  • Our Blog
  • Library
  • Elder Ashram Internship
    • Elder Ashram Academy
    • Clinical Internship
    • Who Are the Interns?
    • Research
    • Resources

a senior living community serving our wisdom keepers

a senior living community serving our wisdom keepersa senior living community serving our wisdom keepers

Services

24 hour Nursing Care Support

Private and semi-private apartments

  • Respite and Permanent Stays
  • Incontinence Care Program
  • Specialized Therapeutic Diet available 
  • Weekly Housekeeping and Linen Service
  • Medication Management Program
  • Valet Parking Available in the back of community

Diabetic care: Tablet, Insulin and Blood Sugar Checks

Specialized Forgetfulness Program for Dementia and Alzheimer's Care

Comfort and Support Services including Hospice and Family Education

GeroWellness Program with Therapeutic Activities

momo bedsense

Good night’s sleep for residents, Reassurance for caregivers

Our beds use sensing technology which alerts staff to any changes while residents are in bed. Click  here for more information

Pine Park Health

Primary Care that Puts You First

Our on-site medical clinic is staffed by Pine Park Health. For more information about their services click here

Holding to the Constant

Lao Tzu

Break into the peace within, 

Hold attention in stillness, 

And in the world outside 

You will ably master the ten thousand things.  


All things rise and flourish 

Then go back to their roots. 

Seeing this return brings true rest, 

Where you discover who you really are. 


Knowing who you are, you will find the constant. 

Those who lack harmony with the constant court danger, 

But those who have it gain new vision.  


They act with compassion; 

Within themselves, they can find room for everything. 

Having room, they rule themselves and lead others wisely. 

Being wise, they live in accordance 

With the nature of things. 

Emptied of self and one with nature, 

They become filled with the Tao. 

The Tao endures forever. 


For those who have attained harmony with the Tao 

Will never lose it, 

Even if their bodies die.  


Lao Tzu (c. 604-531 BCE) was a legendary Chinese sage whose collection of verses, the Tao Te Ching, is the basis of Taoism. This passage is published in Easwaran’s spiritual anthologies, “God Makes the Rivers to Flow” and “Timeless Wisdom.” 

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house,
every morning a new arrival.


A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.


Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honourably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.


The dark thought, the shame, 

the malice –
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.


Be grateful for whatever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


— Rumi
(translation by Coleman Barks)


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