Revoked

A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Via Daily Dharma: The Need for Narrative

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The sense of nagging inauthenticity about my narrative self—the sense that when it comes down to it my story is a lie—persists, and one o...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Via Daily Dharma: The Breath That Breathes Itself

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As we begin to practice mindfulness of breathing, we often see ourselves, initially, as the breather, apart and separate from the breath ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

From my Amigo Nikos: As I have heard elsewhere, "hurt people hurt people."

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"The French philosopher Émile-Auguste Chartier (know as Alain), was said to be the finest teacher in France in the first half of th...

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 11/03/2016

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“Nós seres humanos, mesmo com tanta miséria e sofrimento, continuamos insistindo em acreditar que tudo se resume em dinheiro. Mas, precis...

Via Ram Dass

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March 9, 2016 When you have your game all together, and there is still a yearning inside of you, and you say, “I don’t understand why I...

Via Daily Dharma: Lasting Happiness

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First we have to let go of fixation on material things. This does not necessarily mean jettisoning all our material possessions, but it ...

Obama and Trudeau at the White House: The complete speeches

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 09/03/2016

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“A essência disso que chamamos de ‘altruísmo’ é deixar Deus agir através de nós. Para isso, o ego precisa ser anulado, porque é ele que ...

Via Daily Dharma: Meditation, Simply Defined

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Meditation, simply defined, is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. —Lama Surya Das, " The Heart-Essen...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Just a note of thanks to all my devoted... OK, to both of my devoted readers... Thanks folks!

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Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 08/03/2016

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“Ninguém quer sentir dor, mas às vezes é necessário abrir mão dos anestésicos e amortecedores para poder encará-la de frente. É preciso ...

Ellen Page no Brasil entrevista policial homofóbico - Gaycation - Vice

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Via Daily Dharma: Meditation and the Malleable Self

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The self is plastic, a malleable clay being molded each moment by intention. Just as our scientists are discovering not only how the mind...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Via JMG: Trump Refuses To Answer Gay Marriage Question

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March 7, 2016 2016 Election , Marriage Equality From the Daily Mail : Republican presidential front-runner Donal...

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flor del día 07/03/2016

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“Shiva é uma frequência de luz que nos inspira o desapego. As cinzas que cobrem o seu corpo simbolizam o fim do desejo. E através do desa...

Via Daily Dharma: Closely Inspecting Experience

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To see things as they are is to unearth our hidden assumptions about ourselves and our world, to bring them into the light of full consc...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Via Ram Dass

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March 6, 2016 Work to extricate yourself from the illusion of your own separateness, and then you do what you do in life. And as you do...

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 06/03/2016

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“Amanhã é celebrado na Índia o Mahashivaratri (‘a grande noite de Shiva’) uma data muito auspiciosa por conta da configuração astrológica...

Via Daily Dharma: The Point of Buddhism

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Most people, myself included, want to get some benefit from something. But in Buddhism, what we’re actually trying to do is to become rel...
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