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, September 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Exponential Love

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If we can keep from grasping at others with the selfish fear of losing them... then the energy of love increases and its quality of giving ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 30, 2018

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When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Space We Need

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Noticing the space around people and things provides a different way of looking at them, and developing this spacious view is a way of open...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Riding the Wave of the Universe

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To live is to let go, and in order to live fully we must learn to let go fully and to embrace the flow that is the universe. —Bodhipaksa, ...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Shared Happiness Is True Happiness

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Happiness is not happiness unless it is shared. For happiness is the one thing in all the world that comes to us only at the moment we give...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Journey to Meaning

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If we wish to live well in the world, not just amble along through life without any examination of our being, then we must engage in the ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 26, 2018

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When I look back on the suffering in my life, this may sound really strange, but I see it now as a gift. I would have never asked for it...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Watching Your Thoughts Disperse

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Thoughts are like clouds and can vanish just as clouds naturally disperse into space. —Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “ As t...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Dharma Shapes Us

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The Buddha’s teachings are something enduring that shapes us, if we slow down enough to take them in. We’re not a big deal ... but the dhar...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 23, 2018

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When I start to get angry, I see my predicament and how I’m getting caught in expectations and righteousness. Learning to give up ange...

Via Daily Dharma: Compassion For All

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In difficult situations, [compassion] gives us the power to find a path that meets the vital interests of all concerned when possible and...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Via Ram Dass: How can we reconcile our spirituality and our religion?

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How can we reconcile our spirituality and our religion? Posted August 23, 2018 There was a great moment when I asked Trungpa Rinp...

Via Daily Dharma: Social Awakening

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We must reclaim the concept of awakening from an exclusively individualistic therapeutic model and focus on how individual liberation al...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Wisdom Within You

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Wisdom isn’t something you can “do” or “make happen”—it’s there in all of us. By becoming more familiar with that space within ourselves ...
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...
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