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.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Via Ram Dass...

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March 16, 2016 The pilgrim and the goal are the same. So how can you take a trip seriously when you know the end of the trip is awakeni...

Via Daily Dharma: Creative Practice, Disciplined Understanding

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Just as a yogi must return again and again to the mat or the meditation seat—to directly touch the reality of each moment—the writer must...

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 16/03/2016

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“Um dos principais obstáculos na jornada evolutiva do ser humano é a negação. E o moralismo é um dos instrumentos que está a serviço dess...

Via Instinct: Sally Field Is 'Horrified' By Parents Who Do Not Accept Their Gay Children

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Sally Field was recently bestowed the Human Rights Campaign‘s Ally for Equality Award, an hon...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Via Daily Dharma: A Wise Response

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By cultivating skillful attitudes of mind, we will respond to more and more of life with awareness and wisdom. With steady awareness of t...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Via Ram Dass

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March 13, 2016 Whether you are a parent or a teacher, anything; whatever your gig is, the only thing you can offer to another being is ...

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 14/03/2016

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“Se o planeta Terra é uma escola e o principal curso é criar uma cultura de paz e prosperidade, nós estamos de recuperação. Só haverá paz...

Via Daily Dharma: Testing the Truth

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So what is the test of truth? The Buddha offers a simple formula: Test things in terms of cause and effect. Whatever is unskillful, leadi...
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 ...
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