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, November 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Priceless Peace

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If we can let go of our various worries and cares, peace will arise in our hearts. This is why the Buddha taught us to center our hearts ...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: 20/20 Dharma Vision

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What we most frequently see when the mind is focused and clear are the habits of mind that create unnecessary suffering, habits fueled by...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Invincible Purity

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As we listen more deeply to suffering, we begin to notice non-suffering. The heart realizes its innate courage, strength, and invincibili...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Heart of Virtue

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Mindful speech and the ability to really listen are at the heart of all relationships. And thoughtful, kind, and effective interactions a...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 7, 2018 🍁

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The truth is everywhere. Wherever you are, it’s right where you are, when you can see it. And you can see it through whatever vehicle y...

Via Daily Dharma: A Rude Awakening

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The pain of remorse can motivate a profound desire within us to live more awake and more genuinely. From the pain of deep humiliation—fro...
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...
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