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, June 10, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Lifting Others Up

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Equality is about giving up the constant desire to lift yourself above others so that you appear superior to them. Awakening is about lif...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: An Invitation to Presence

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The invitation to open to our experience—whatever it is from moment to moment—is always there, no matter how many times we need to redisc...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Tune In to What Matters Most

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Whatever you most care about, let this tenderness of heart energize your meditation. The sincerity of your longing will carry you home. ...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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Love doesn’t know boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separation between me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and op...

Via Daily Dharma: Where to Find Enlightenment

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The path of enlightenment is not the path to enlightenment, a way to get to this so-called awakened state. The path of enlightenment is w...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Via FB: Senator Kamila Harris -- as shared by Jim Hardwick

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"I was speaking to a high school class a few weeks ago and one of the students asked me what we are going to do about a divided Americ...

Via Daily Dharma: Why Awareness Matters

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With awareness, there is space—allowing us to interrupt habitual response patterns and bring intention to our responses, choosing to form...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Chaim Tannenbaum - "America the Beautiful"

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Make the jump here to read the story about it on Utne

Via Daily Dharma: Do You Live Well with Others?

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Even if you have awakened to your enlightened nature, there is still further to go in your spiritual journey if you’re not living harmoni...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: On Questioning and Faith

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When one is analyzing and studying, it is good to ask questions and to have doubts . . . . Analysis produces a faith that is certain. —...

Via Ram Dass

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The only thing that ever dies is the model you have in your mind of who you think you are. That’s what dies.  - Ram Dass -
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Via Lion's Roar: What is the Buddhist view on sexuality?

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The Buddhist flag (right) debuted in Sri Lanka in 1855 and was adopted internationally in 1952. The rainbow pride flag, designed by Gilbe...

Via Daily Dharma: An Unedited Life

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We think we know our own life, but what we know is only an edited version, colored by our emotions and narrow vision. How close can we co...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: A Noble Person's Mindset

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A noble person does not do good because of willpower. She does it through a combination of, on the one hand, modesty about self, and, on ...

Via Google: Gilbert Baker, criador da bandeira LGBT, é homenageado com doodle

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O artista e ativista americano, que completaria hoje 66 anos, criou um dos maiores símbolos de representatividade do mundo
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Facing the Dark Sides

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It is only when one identifies totally with mumyo , the heart of darkness, that the walls of the proud ego-self are shattered and the true ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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Ultimately you live simultaneously in all of the planes of consciousness all the time, so that in a way, it’s like a vertical cut up ...

Via Daily Dharma: Freedom from Who We Think We Are

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What gets in the way of this movement toward our authentic self, more than anything, is our insistence on identifying with the small sel...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Via Impact: A Zen Master's Advice On Coping With Trump

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“Trump’s grand and vulgar self-absorption is inviting all of us to examine our own selfishness. His ignorance calls us to attend to ou...
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