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.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 19, 2018

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The quality of the heart is that it loves without discrimination, it just loves, it has no boundaries. The mind is continually setting...

Via Daily Dharma: Embody Full Presence

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In meditation, we train in letting go of thoughts of the past and future as they arise, and in tuning in to full, immediate presence inst...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Language of Compassion

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Nonviolent Communication... is a method for resolving conflict by expressing needs without blame or criticism, then listening and respondin...

Via Pinterest / Mudras

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Monday, September 17, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Embrace Your Shortcomings

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Peace and kindness have their best shot at establishing themselves when we accept our own inadequacy, when limitation and error become aspe...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 16, 2018

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"It’s amazing how the nature of your relationships change when it’s coming out of love instead of trying to get love." - Ra...

Via Daily Dharma: Trust in the Three Jewels

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We can choose to take refuge in the brilliant sanity of enlightenment, the Buddha; trust the process of the path, the Dharma; and rely on t...
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...
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