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.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Savor Your Life

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As you grow in mindfulness, you reclaim your life. —Thich Nhat Hanh, “ Thich Nhat Hanh’s Little Peugeot ”

Via Daily Dharma: Wisdom Within the World

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Sages, too, endure the same mundane circumstances as we—they fall sick, suffer injuries, meet with unwelcome changes—but their wisdom see...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 10, 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 they t...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The four immeasurables

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Os quatro incomensuráveis - bondade amorosa, compaixão, alegria pela fortuna dos outros e equanimidade (The four immeas...

Via Daily Dharma: Foundations First

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If you want to be better at what you do—no matter what that may be—you want to start by being a better human being. —Interview with Edward...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Observe the Breath

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When we truly observe the breath, we are automatically placed in the present. We are pulled out of the morass of mental images and into a...
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...
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