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.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Home(less) [Short Film] - Full Movie

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FiveFilms4freedom 2017: In conversation with Jonny Ruff

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Via Tiny Buddha / FB:

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Via Daily Dharma / Facing Pain

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You don’t have to be afraid of pain. If it’s going to be there, you can let it be there—but don’t let the mind be in pain with it. —Upa...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Via Daily Dharam / The Value of Inexperience

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Unlike a subject like, say, carpentry, where we learn from the experience of those who have gone before us, meditation is defined by spon...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Via FB: Dorothy Day

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"No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. ~~ Dorothy Day (Catholic social activist)

Via Daily Dharma / Joining in a Common Effort:

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We can be true to our own basic insight of what we see as true, but we can embrace other people, knowing that they also may have their tr...
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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