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.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Gift of a Skillful Critique

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Judgmental criticism is one thing; judicious criticism is actually a gift. —Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “ Gossip ”
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Via Pink News: Obama tells young African leaders: Rejecting gays comes from the same mindset as racism

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Ads by Kiosked Obama said young African leaders have a responsibility to accept gays people President Obama has told you...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 16, 2017

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When you stand back far enough, all of your life experiences, independent of what they are, are all learning experiences. From a human poin...

Via Daily Dharma: Overcoming Obstacles with Determination

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No matter how high the mountains of the great dharma are, no matter how deep the sea of ignorance is, they will be as nothing before a bo...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Generosity Needs No Reason

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Generosity might be strategically effective or virtuous, but that’s not important. The point is that there is no good reason to love life...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised gay sex.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05797th

Man In An Orange Shirt 1X2- Sub ITA

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Via Daily Dharma: A New Definition of Consciousness

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Consciousness is an action , a capacity for meeting whatever its object is. —Beth Jacobs, “ Mapping Your Mind: The Original Buddhist Psyc...

Via FB: LOVE

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Via justabahai blog : Letter from a gay former Baha’i

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Letter from a gay former Baha’i August 12, 2017 Lord, why do you pile all these troubles upon us? It is because of the gays, i...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 13, 2017

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   The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life cha...

Via Daily Dharma: The Price of Multitasking

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Awareness itself is the primary currency of the human condition, and as such it deserves to be spent carefully. —Andrew Olendzki, “ Busy ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Connecting with Awareness

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As meditative awareness deepens, we may begin to experience what we call pure awareness. This isn’t some extraordinary state of conscious...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Activists with Heart

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With our practice, we can turn our gaze and our heart toward the very dilemmas of our time and enter as activists who cool and soothe the...

No More War!

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Via His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each o...

Via Daily Dharma: How to Experience the Freshness of Life

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Watching impartially opens the mind to realize that there is no way that we can stop this flux even for a fraction of a second. We experi...

Via Seniors for a Democratic Society / FB

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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 9, 2017

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Suffering is a lesson the Soul needs in order to get to its Beloved. Joy is too.  - Ram Dass -
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