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 19, 2017

So when you have a rough day, or when "He who's name shall not be mentioned" passes a new tweet... there is always: Psalm 109

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Psalm 109 1  My God, whom I praise,      do not remain silent, 2  for people who are wicked and deceitful      have opened their mouths...

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  The question is, how do you awaken out of the illusion that you are separate? The doorway out of that is through the heart. We say,...

Via Daily Dharma / On Diligence

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Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consis...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Internal Enemy

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Usually we define our enemy as a person, an external agent, whom we believe is causing harm to us or to someone we hold dear. But such an...
Friday, March 17, 2017

2CELLOS - Now We Are Free - Gladiator [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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Via Daily Dharma / Learning from the Birds

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I stand in the middle of perfection. There is no one else around me. The cries of the geese are beautiful. They hold only joy, not a trac...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Receiving Love

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That’s exactly what happens in sitting in stillness in Zen. You’re simply soaked in that divine love that is beyond words, and you allow ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  You can’t say, “I’m not going to have anything to do with politics.” You can say it, bu...

Via Dialy Dharma / Your Inner Buddha

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Any Buddha or Bodhisattva is merely a symbol of the best of our own inner processes, and we are all universal beings in touch with the un...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Total Freedom

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You start with freedom from thirst, hunger, disease, the basic freedoms that the state has to help its citizens achieve. Then you go beyo...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Via JMG: AIDS Memorial Museum Planned For San Francisco

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March 13, 2017 LGBT History , LGBT News The New York Times reports : The National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate ...

Via Daily Dharma / Holy Action

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. —Dag Hammarskjöld, " Freedom in the Midst of Action...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  Now when most of us think of yogis, we think of somebody sitting, like Milarepa, up in a cave in the mountains, cross-legged and nake...

Via Daily Dharma / Unlikely Dharma

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Everything preaches the dharma—nuclear waste, skunks, flowers, grass—and does so fully and completely. —Roshi Nancy Mujo Baker, " On...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Steering the Heart

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No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment. Perhaps it ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Value of Routine

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If we are to close the gap between ideal and actuality—between the envisaged aim of striving and the lived experience of our everyday li...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Via FB: WEAPONS IN THE SPIRITUAL WAR AGAINST EVIL

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Altruism, Assertiveness, Beauty, Bravery, Brevity, Charity, Cheerfulness, Clarity, Cleanliness, Compassion, Commitment, Confidence, Conce...

Via TED: Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church

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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/07/watch-former-god-hates-fags-protester-explains-what-finally-broke-her-indoctrination/?utm_source=ET...

Via Daily Dharma / Buddha Wisdom

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When a distraught mother asked [the Buddha] to heal the dead child she carried in her arms, he did not perform a miracle, but instead in...
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