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, July 30, 2019

From my Journal: Bombshell...

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Via MyGWork: How LGBT+ Employees Can Prepare for Overseas Work Assignments

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In more than half the world LGBT+ people  are not protected  from discrimination by workplace laws. 70 countries still criminalise homo...

Via Daily Dharma: Choose Your Response

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One of the finest results of meditation is the increased gap between stimulus and response. That gap before I react gives me time to noti...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: A World of Compassion

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Instead of looking at others, telling yourself your usual story about who people are, visualize every person you see as the Bodhisattva o...

Via Tricycle: Happiness is Found Within

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Happiness is Found Within Download Transcript It has been edited for cla...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds for the Future

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In each moment our experience is determined to a great extent by seeds from the past that are bearing fruit right now. In each moment, to...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 28, 2019 💌

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Sometimes you experience a quality of dying or emptiness about life. It’s scary because you built your whole game up — you saved all y...

Via Daily Dharma: What Happens When We Stay Present During Terrible Times?

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The hard truth is, terrible things happen in life that we can’t control, and somehow we do bear them. We bear witness to them. When we do...

Via Daily Dharma: A Fundamental Clarity

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Fear is not inherent in what is known as main or basic mind. What is inherent? Clear seeing, spaciousness, pure awareness. —Pilar Jennings...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: We’re Already Complete

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You and I don’t manifest in the universe as meaning, we manifest as living human beings. We’re not here to represent something else. We’r...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

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

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My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it—cultivate the quiet place in me that...

Via Daily Dharma: Reaching Out to One Another

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There is far more love available to us in any given moment than we might be aware. And there is much, much more love in our hearts than w...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Dropping Our Facades

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To truly connect with other human beings, we must dare to present ourselves in ways that depict the true variety and complexity of our huma...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 21, 2019 💌

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At some point awakening begins. The awakening happens with trauma or it happens when somebody you love dies. In sexuality you tra...

Via Daily Dharma: Watch as Obstacles Dissolve

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Something remarkable happens when we go on sitting through all the but ’s, through all the thoughts, sensations, and emotions that we woul...

Via Daily Dharma: Nothing but the Present Moment

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Don’t worry about the future; don’t worry about the past. Stay right here. Ultimately you get so that you can’t say that you’re going for...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Karma’s Equanimity

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The principle of karmic retribution—cause and effect—works with perfect clarity right before our eyes. Even the smallest, most minor evil...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Use Imagination as a Spiritual Tool

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If we really want to go beyond the surface of things to the deeply hidden, actual experience of being alive (as spiritual practice encour...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Making the Most of Samsara

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We inhabit a land of deep samskaras , karmic imprints that demand even deeper purification to dissipate. It is also a land where some of us...
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