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, September 15, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Pure Selflessness

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The act of giving purifies intention, the quality of mind with which any action is undertaken. For a brief moment, the giver’s self-absor...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Respecting Pain

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How do we develop this appreciation of things just as they are, especially if we are sick and in pain? We must treat our pain gently, res...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Positive Qualities Within

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As progress is made on the path, the positive qualities required for further advancement will become part of you, and you will gradually ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Rostam - "In a River" (Official Animation Video)

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Via Purple Buddha / Basics of Buddhism

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 12, 2018

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“If there is one thing that a person needs from another human being, it’s to be appreciated, to be listened to, to be heard. Just as y...

Via Daily Dharma: Where We Belong

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We can get dragged back into the past, which can lead to depression, or we can become anxious about the future, which can lead to fear. C...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Trusting Your Creativity

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When we trust our creative energy, we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment—an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ord...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Enlightened Transitions

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All the transitions in life—dream, meditation, death, and rebirth, all the unending transitions in what we call existence and nonexistenc...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 9, 2018

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"If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepar...

Via Daily Dharma: Supportive Awareness

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Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the “support,” of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag o...

Via Daily Dharma: Simple Insight

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The depth of experience, insight, and realization that can come from the practice of self-reflection is not a result of intellectual anal...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Lovingkindness Is the Answer

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In situations of conflict, lovingkindness and compassion grow when we understand them to be the most beneficial motivation for responsive a...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Emerging into Serenity

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How does one come to a confident and positive view that is not naive, given the state of the world? By walking through one’s own anger an...

Via Daily Dharma: The Ultimate Gift

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To donate money, to offer your time and skills, to give food or drink, and to share tears or laughter, are all valuable ways to express g...

Via Daily Dharma: The Dharma’s True Home

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Liminality—in-between-ness—is the dharma’s dwelling place…The dharma’s true home is always in between, and that’s why it can set us free....
Monday, September 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Joy of Work

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Absorption in a task frees up psychic energy that would otherwise be constrained by the myriad concerns and perceptual habits of the quot...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 2, 2018

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I think that the a...

Via Daily Dharma: An Inner Search to Truth

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What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave out time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, si...
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