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, February 12, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  There is a way of shifting consciousness so that you see that we are all one in the form of many...You see that a starving person or ...

Via Daily Dharma / Three Marks of Existence:

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Sometimes when I’m asked to describe the Buddhist teachings, I say this: Everything is connected; nothing lasts; you are not alone. This ...

Via BBC / More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

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A huge hole was left in the world this week with the death of the Swedish statistician Han Rosling. He was a master communicator whose...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Via DailyDharma / The Buddha Within You:

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There is a buddha in every one of us, and we should allow the buddha to walk. Even in the most difficult situation, you can walk like a b...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Via Daisaku Ikeda / To My Friends:

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To My Friends Daisaku Ikeda February 10th 2017 The hallmark of a leader is the promptness ...

Via Daily Dharma / Ask Questions

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Then the Blessed One addressed the monks, “If even a single monk has any doubt or indecision concerning the Buddha, Dhamma, or Sangha, th...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Copied and pasted from a friend's page.

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I listened as you called my President a Muslim. I listened as you called him and his family a pack of monkeys. I listened as you said he was...

Via Daily Dharma / An Enlightened Vision of the World:

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I came to realize clearly that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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One dies as one lives...Once that starts to fall into place, then the question is how you use the moment-to-moment experiences of your...

Via Daily Dharma / The Evolution of Understanding:

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When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers....

Viva Hans Rosling!

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  Woke up to find that dear, dear Hans Rosling, has passed away. The world has lost a good, decent man who offered us all a postive...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

WALK WITH ME - International Trailer

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Via Shambhala Publications: Pema Chödrön

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  Relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path. Disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, r...

Via FB: From Scott Mednick, when a Trumpster Facebook friend told him, "We suffered for 8 years. Now it’s your turn.”

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Copy & paste to share From Scott Mednick, when a Trumpster Facebook friend told him, "We suffered for 8 years....

Via Daily Dharma / Words of a Perfect Teacher

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When others are proud, you cannot please them easily. When you are being very proud, you always find fulfillment difficult, your exp...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Correct Views:

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Shunyata is “the exhaustion of all theories and views.” Making it into a metaphysical theory is like grasping a snake by the wrong end–l...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Via Metroweekely: Gil Steinlauf: Dear President Trump

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Dear President Trump, As a Jew, as a rabbi, as a gay man, I have something to say to you: you don’t know me, but I know you. We have met...

Via Ram Dass

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T he only way you can keep you heart open is by living simultaneously on more than one plane of consciousness. When I was in India, t...

Via Daily Dharma / The Jewel of Community:

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The sangha literally embodies the Buddhist tradition; it transcends the self-concerns of any individual, especially the concerns that ari...
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