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 22, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - March 22, 2017

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  It’s a very delicate task to interpret things like ego and fear because we tend to interpret from where we’re sitting, and we’ve de...

Via Daily Dharma / The Joy of Problems

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People get stuck for decades with the same problems over and over. Focusing expands you. Then you live in more ways and have new problems...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Via Thinking People / FB: Ignorance

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Via FB / Shared brilliance from an anonymous source:

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"Why should coal miners pay for PBS"? This was an actual question asked by the Trump administration yesterday. Obviously ...

Via Daily Dharma / Reality Check

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. —Philip K. Dick, " Drowning in Narcissism "
Monday, March 20, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Right Way to Cling:

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The only permanence is the permanence that I cling to in my mind: my ideals of how to live; how to be happy; how to raise my children; ho...

Via FB: Adulting 101 and self-care

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Recently, I've noticed an uptick in the number of people who are suffering from depression, anxiety, and stress. Many people are exp...
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...
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