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, September 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Listen to Your Thoughts

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Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off. When we listen there is a different mode employed in the hear...

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

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When we're identified with awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time. ...

Via Daily Dharma: Dare to Connect

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In order to authentically and securely connect with other human beings, first we must dare to connect with what has been consigned to the s...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Via JMG: Civil Rights Groups Pay Tribute To Edith Windsor

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  From the ACLU: Today, we lost one of this country’s great civil rights pioneers, Edie Windsor. The wheels of progress t...

Via ADAM & ANDY / 08/21/17

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Via Daily Dharma: Paying the Bills, Ethically

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If we are embarking on a spiritual path, we need to live our lives ethically, and this means ensuring that we do as little harm as possib...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Treasure of Hope

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When we possess the treasure of hope, we can draw forth our inner potential and strength. A person of hope can always advance. —Daisaku I...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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The object of our love is love itself. It is the inner light in everyone and everything. - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Dealing with Delusion

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Acknowledging our delusion is a very important step, but just to leave it at that will not suffice. There’s no greater foolishness than t...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Trading Candy for Gold

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In trading the pleasures of an ordinary life for a meditative life, you’re trading candy for gold. —Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “ Skillful Shelte...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Use Boredom to Your Advantage

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Boredom is like having to deal with fear, anger, or indeed craving, or any other negative mental state. It is an opportunity to experienc...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Be Yourself—It's Your Only Option

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The only thing you really ever have to offer another person is your own state of being. —Ram Dass, “ Tuning ”
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 6, 2017

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Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. ...

Via Daily Dharma: How Meditation Helps You Let Go

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By creating a sense of background support through the calming and stilling of the mind, meditation makes possible the compassionate condi...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Time for a Metta // Tempo para um Metta

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I’d like you to be safe I’d like you to be healthy I’d like you to be happy I’d like you to be at ease in the world E...

Via FB

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Via Daily Dharma: On the Impermanence of Desire

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As a simple experiment, the next time you have some wanting or desire in the mind, investigate what the wanting feels like and then notic...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Karma: The Best Investment

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Don’t worry so much about social security. Finance your karmic security instead. —Andrew Holecek, “ The Supreme Contemplation ”
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Via Patheos/ Queers: Our Worth is Independent of Theology

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T his week a conservative evangelical Christian group released the “ Nashville Statement ,” a transparently homophobic...
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