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.

Friday, May 5, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Meeting “Me” on the Meditation Cushion

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Even when awareness appears to be lost because, once again, the “me” has assumed center stage, there is awareness of that. Then awareness...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Finding Religion

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[The] drive for future accomplishment just builds up the habit of always striving for something other than what we have right here and no...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you ...

Via Daily Dharma / How to Deal with Change

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Practice changes our relationship to what would otherwise be upsetting. Facing change, we see how futile and painful it is to try to hold...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Via Lions Roar: One Simple Practice That Changes Everything

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The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara embodies universal compassion and the intention to save all sentient beings from suffering. Photo co...

Via Daily Dharma / Forget Yourself

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When you focus attention on someone or something that inspires awe in you, you forget yourself. You also forget yourself, and you may even ...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Accomplishing Now

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[The] drive for future accomplishment just builds up the habit of always striving for something other than what we have right here and no...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind ...

TED 2017: His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone

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Via Daily Dharma / Acknowledging Destructive Emotions

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If an emotion, such as hatred or envy, is judged to be destructive, then it is simply recognized as such. It is neither expressed through...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Benefits of Heightened Awareness

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If you’re sensitive to what’s going on around you—sensitive to the weather, to your immediate environment—then you’re going to be sensiti...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Rejecting Consumer Consciousness

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A world that truly understands the nature of consciousness could shift away from the hedonic treadmill of consumerism and toward the infini...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / How to Meditate Anywhere

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Anytime you can go out and keep all of your visual and auditory senses alive—looking above eye level, hearing behind you as well as in fron...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Carpool | Google Home now supports multiple users

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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of ...

Via Daily Dharma / Changing Your Way of Being

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Meditation is not merely a useful technique or mental gymnastic, but part of a balanced system designed to change the way we go about thi...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Breaking Habits

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Habituation devours work, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. . . . And art exists that one may recover the sensation of...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Are You Ready to Meet Reality?

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In order to open—in meditation and in life in general—we must let go of our familiar thoughts and emotions, we must step out from behind ...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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My path is the path of Guru Kripa , which means ‘grace of the guru’. It seems like a sort of strange path in the West, but my path invo...
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