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.

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: An Invitation to Kindness

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Imagine for a moment that everything you are experiencing is your very, very best friend saying hello… Such a hello is much more than jus...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Looking Deeply Into Life

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Concentration will bring stability, stillness, and spaciousness; inquiry will bring alertness, vividness, brightness, and clarity. Combin...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The True Value of Waking Up

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Every moment of heightened consciousness is precious beyond price, for awareness is the primary currency of the human condition. —Lama Su...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The Bahá'í Faith is Homophobic

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A few months ago I wrote this letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of Brasil: A Assembléia Espiritual Nacional dos Bahá'ís do ...

Via Daily Dharma: Reaping the Rewards

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Whoever you are, if you have a true and sincere mind, if you are not careless in the least, if you do not go along with what worldly peop...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 5, 2018 🍁

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  I would say that most of us stay locked in our separateness and we are very frightened of coming out of it, we feel very vulnerable...

Via Daily Dharma: Complete in Connectedness

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Pervading all is a groundless awareness, delicate and strong at the same time. Everything becomes we , a beating heart with a transparent, ...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Subtlety of Effort

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There’s no switch that turns on enlightenment. You move toward it with your effort. It’s an effort that might be unrecognizable to those ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 2, 2018 🍁

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Part of your curriculum with aging is to shift your game in order to honor the systems of which you're a part so that you finish yo...

Via Daily Dharma: The Middle Path

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Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the ...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Find the Middle Way

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Without spiritual discipline we are never going to wake up or advance on our journey through this life. But our discipline must be wedded t...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Why Genuine Transformation Is Possible

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No matter how high the mountains of the great dharma are, no matter how deep the sea of ignorance is, they will be as nothing before a bo...

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

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Reflection will give you a chance to stand back in your soul, witness consciousness, look at your life, and see how much of the system...

Via Daily Dharma: Turning Dreams into Reality

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Daydreaming is very seductive; when the thoughts “If I were… If I had… ” come up, they pull you in… When we ask the question “What is thi...

Via Daily Dharma: A Step on the Path

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The entire process of sitting down to eat, reflecting on food and its preparation, and then the eating of it should be a method—one among...

Via Daily Dharma: The Root of Forgiveness

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The practice of forgiveness happens when we are able to realize the underlying cause of our anger and impatience, and this allows us to ...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 25, 2018 🍁

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The romantic quality of love which is between separate entities is a doorway into the deeper love ... a lot of people experience a qual...

Via Daily Dharma: Don’t Miss a Moment

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In dharma practice, we both prepare for the long haul and remain open to immediate insight and change… The perspectives of both gradual and...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Greatest Gift

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Let’s find a way to share our gifts of spontaneous love and compassion moment by sacred moment, seeing all the while the Great Gift of i...
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