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.

Friday, March 29, 2019

GUIDE TO HANDLING HOMOPHOBIA

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AJ Minneci · Thursday, March 28, 2019   I worked on the equal marriage campaign and came across many homophobes in the process; d...

Via FB: Happy Birthday to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti who turns 100 today. Pity the nation whose breath is money . . .

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Via Daily Dharma: A Light Touch

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Discovering emptiness brings a lightness of heart, flexibility, and an ease that rests in all things. The more solidly we grasp our identit...

Via Tricycle: RAIN - Getting started on a spiritual path takes guts.

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R stands for recognizing what is happening in this moment. Someone just walked too close to you on the sidewalk or didn’t give you what...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Starve the Negative, Feed the Positive

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By gently robbing negative emotional patterns of their power and by practicing positive modes of thought and action, we bring balance to ...

Via Jack Donovan / MASCULINITY AND HOMOSEXUALITY

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The problem is that homosexuality and effeminacy are virtually synonymous in the modern public’s mind. All men who love men are stigmatized...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Releasing Fear

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Being free of fear is not a matter of never feeling it, but of not being flattened when we do. We can feel it and know it is a natural p...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - March 27, 2019 💌

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As you get more conscious, every act you perform increases the amount of consciousness in the universe, because the act itself co...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Via Kick the Ick / FB: We have been here a long, long time

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Via spirituallyminded

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We don’t need to do anything at all. Just allow yourself to be seated; let the sitting take place. If you don’t strive to sit, relaxation w...

Via Daily Dharma: Love Without Reason

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Generosity might be strategically effective or virtuous, but that’s not important. The point is that there is no good reason to love life...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: What We All Want

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Human beings—rich or poor, East or West, educated or uneducated, man or woman—all have one thing in common: we all want joy and happiness...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - March 24, 2019 💌

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It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily. ...

Via Daily Dharma: Courage to Seek the Truth

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Getting started on a spiritual path takes guts. We usually don’t know it in the beginning, but if we keep going on it—if we really want to ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Spaciousness of Mind

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Simply imagine that everything is just like the vast, open sky, like empty space, and let your mind blend into the space so that it becomes...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Taking Mindfulness Online

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In spite of the ways in which technology can lure us into delusion, paying close attention to the mental and physical sensations that ari...

Via FB

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: What’s Under the Darkness

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Inner light is unceasing—forever luminous and clear. Even in the darkest of circumstances, you can trust that it is always there. —Tenz...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

From the Church I was raised in in Oregon this

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All Are Welcome Young, old, poor, inked, weak, rich, pierced, tourist, local, sick, seeker, powerful, doubter, brown skin, black ski...
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