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 7, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 7, 2018

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When you are experiencing fear, you are caught in your separateness. When you are experiencing love, you are caught in your unity wit...

META pra Brasil!

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Que todos os seres encontrem a felicidade e as causas da felicidade. Que todos os seres se libertem do sofrimento e das causas do sofri...

Via Daily Dharma: Finding Freedom

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What is freedom? It is nothing more, and nothing less, than life lived awake. —Ken McLeod, “ Forget Happiness ”
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Anchor Yourself in the Present Moment

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The practice of meditation isn’t confined... to what happens when we’re practicing sitting meditation. We want to learn to be present, to...

Via Daily Dharma: Weathering Life’s Storms

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When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the ar...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Turn Towards Pain

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In order to emerge from our pain, we have to enter it... when we thus relate to our pain, cultivating intimacy with it, we start liberating...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Inspiration in Meditation

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The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to m...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 3, 2018

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When you give another human being, your family, or your business, the fullness of your being at any moment, a little is enough. ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Use Compassion to Connect

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Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection... Because compassion is a state of mind that i...
Monday, October 1, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Bare Awareness

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What we regard as the self appears to be a solid, personal identity that perceives things. But in truth there is no metabeing who unifies...
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...
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