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, July 29, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 29, 2018

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The truth is everywhere. Wherever you are, it’s right where you are, when you can see it. And you can see it through whatever vehicle y...

Via Daily Dharma: Explore Your Resistance

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Rather than resist our resistance, we can allow ourselves to explore it in intimate detail, like a bug traveling across a flower, petal b...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: How to Approach Pain

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When pain arises, instead of immediately thinking, “How can I get rid of this?” we can say “Hello” to it, and ask, “What can I learn from...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Key to Awakening

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Although there are many different descriptions of the enlightened mind, there is one reference point of understanding that illuminates th...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Fearless Journey

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As we individuate, we learn to remain open to the nature of uncertainty in the journey, allowing ourselves to fearlessly unfold. —Rob Pre...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 25, 2018

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    A lot of people try to counteract the ‘I am not good enough’ with ‘I am good enough.’ In other words, they take the opposite and ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The BahaĆ­ Faith is Homophobic and Unwelcoming to LGBTQ People

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THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARIAT Baha’i World Centre 5 June 2018 Dear Baha’i Friend, The Universal House...

Via Daily Dharma: Learning from Nature

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At night, alone in the moonlit fields, with the grasses and crickets to keep you company, it is possible to reclaim the vision you had wh...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Conscious Love

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When we use our attention to touch and open the deeper truth in a person, we not only catalyze the experience of love, we become love. Th...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Via Tricycle: Ha Ha Zen

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Ha Ha Zen Finding parallels between modern-day stand-up comedians and Zen masters of the past By Pamela D. Winf...

Via Daily Dharma: Radiant Qualities of Our Being

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We are, by nature, endowed with qualities of absolute goodness—purest love, compassion, wisdom, and tranquility. —Lama John Makransky, “ ...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 22, 2018

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    At some point awakening begins. The awakening happens with trauma or it happens when somebody you love dies. In sexuality you tran...

Via Daily Dharma: Awakening Happiness

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Out of the combination of concentrated stability, penetrative investigation, and mindful awareness, consciousness may awaken the unshaka...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Let Forgiveness Release You

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In any moment, we can learn to let go of hatred and fear and rest in peace and forgiveness—it’s never, ever too late. —Gina Sharpe, “ The...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Via The Four Agreements

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"Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best." (...

Via Daily Dharma: Watch The Flow of Your Mind

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Spending time with your own mind is humbling and broadening. One finds that there’s no one in charge, and is reminded that no thought las...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Enough

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Allow yourself to let go of the idea that who you are already isn’t enough, and realize this deep acceptance is the path to real freedom....
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 18, 2018

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To live consciously you must have the courage to go inside yourself to find out who you really are, to understand that behind all of ...

Via Daily Dharma: The Subtle Means of Mindfulness

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What makes mindfulness so potent a medicine is not the power of a single cataclysmic event, but the imperceptible way it permeates the ev...
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