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.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Via 20 of 50 Daily Dharma: Wake Up in This Moment

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Every mindful moment in which generosity displaces greed, compassion takes the place of hatred, and insight dislodges delusion, is a mome...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Unquenchable Effort

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The most important thing is to keep working for the world we long for, even when the odds seem overwhelming. After all, isn’t this the es...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 4, 2018 🍁

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You would not have taken birth on this particular plane of existence unless you had work to do in the areas of life and death, or rathe...

Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go to Gain it All

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Whenever you see yourself identifying with anything stressful and inconstant, you remind yourself that it’s not-self: not worth clinging ...

Via Daily Dharma: Pain’s Hidden Virtue

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The gateway to compassion and lovingkindness is to be able to feel our own pain, and the pain of others. If we are able to open in this way...

Via Daily Dharma: Divine Messengers

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People who are awake see the manifestation of the dharma in everything. A pebble, a bamboo tree, the cry of a baby, anything can be the v...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Natural Perfection

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Not being aware of your own faults is the greatest fault. But if you are aware and make adjustments immediately, you can then be faultles...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 31, 2018 🍁

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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. ...

Via Daily Dharma: Bring Everything onto the Path

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Everything is an occasion for the dharma to unfold. It is a virtual truism that no circumstance is not apt, to the attentive mind, for sp...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The End of Suffering

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If we can learn to understand [our] suffering and open to the reality of it, then instead of simply being overwhelmed by it, we can inves...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Compassion in Action

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We must join hearts and minds—with each other, with those of other faiths, and with those of a secular orientation—to bring forth the kin...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 28, 2018 🍁

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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.  - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Nothing to Improve

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Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as “bad” meditation, b...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Plant Seeds with Care

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If we act constructively, happiness will ensue; if we act destructively, problems will result… We create the causes by our actions, and we ...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Via NPR: 'You Are Safe Now': Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral

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Via Daily Dharma: Radical Regeneration

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Buddhist practice and the work of nonviolence can never be separated. They are fused together with spiritual insight and dedicated action...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Keep It Real

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Effort is more important than so-called success because effort is a real thing. —Brad Warner, “ Think Not Thinking ”
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 24, 2018 🍁

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There is a lovely story of a boy who goes to a Zen Master and asks, “Master, I know you have many students, but if I study harder than...

Via Daily Dharma: Meaning in the Mundane

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[Our] ordinary struggles are the practice, in the midst of which we come to understand and appreciate the meaning of life. —Interview wi...
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