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.

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Via LA Times

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Via Daily Dharma: Learn When to Quit

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Strange as it may seem, stopping is as much an important aspect of practice as starting. —Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “ The Aim of Attention...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 15, 2017

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To see through the veil of what our senses and thinking minds make real, to the true self, feels often like the highest aspiration of hum...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 11, 2017

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Being peacefully in relationship to everything made me realize that my happiness isn’t based on the situation being 'this way' or...

Via Daily Dharma: Meditation Off the Cushion

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When I put so much stock in formal meditation, I forget that it’s only one way of helping me see the magic that surrounds me and that is ...

Via Daily Dharma: Attention Reveals Connection

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Paying attention provides the gift of noticing and the gift of connecting. It provides the gift of seeing a little bit of ourselves in ot...

Via Daily Dharma: Everyone Has a Purpose

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Each of us has something to do in this lifetime; we have to find out what it is and do it. —Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, “ No Excuses ”
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Forgiving Yourself Be Done

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One of the most difficult people to forgive can be yourself. Yet with patience and gentle determination, it can be done. —Allan Lokos, “ ...

Via Daily Dharma: Resist the Mental Clock

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Meditation teaches us to be wary of allowing ideas of time to interfere with our activity. Through experience, we discover how not to los...

Via Daily Dharma: Let Go Strategically

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The key is not to grasp, or swim against the tide, but to go along and allow the elements to balance. By skillfully and strategically let...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Inner Simplicity

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Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside. —Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “ Allow for Space ”
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Via 3 of 7 Daily Dharma: Maintain Clarity by Being Present

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Confusion proliferates when we can’t stay present with whatever we encounter. —Elizabeth Mattis, “ Open Stillness ”
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 4, 2017

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If you want to be in a peaceful world, you damn well better be peaceful, because if you are full of anger you are not going to bring abou...

Via Daily Dharma: Uncover Your Limiting Beliefs

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The moment you leave the circumstances you’ve grown accustomed to, you are in foreign territory, and it’s easier to realize how much nar...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Leonard Cohen - Leaving the Table

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For more about Cohen’s life and his relationship to Zen Buddhism, read Pico Iyer’s “Leonard Cohen Burns, and We Burn With Him.”

Via Daily Dharma: Discipline Is Wedded to Joy

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Without spiritual discipline we are never going to wake up or advance on our journey through this life. But our discipline must be wedded t...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Heroes Within You

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The superheroes we need don’t come from faraway planets or live in secret hideouts on remote islands. Our heroes must be summoned from wi...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Via Ram Dass: Words of Wisdom - October 1, 2017

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What love has been for me has been the whole ‘heart’ part of my journey. I have gone from having special people that I loved and others...

Via Daily Dharma: Why You Must Accept Who You Are

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Understanding and accepting who you really are right now is as important as the commitment to become someone more open and generous. —D...
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