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.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: What Does Mindfulness Achieve?

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Be in harmony with each breath, each moment, and know that in giving yourself this time to develop awareness and a steadiness of attention ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Some thoughts on universal healthcare...

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For those of you who do not have, or perhaps even know what universal healthcare looks like, let me share my experience. Just for the recor...

VIA FB: BODHIDHARMA

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O Bodhidharma foi um monge budista que viveu durante o quinto ou sexto século e é creditado como o transmissor do Zen para a C...

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Via Daily Dharma: Making the Journey to Refuge

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A spiritual practice can be an island, a place where opening to uncertainty and doubt can lead us to a refuge of truth. —Joan Halifax, “ T...

Via Ram Dass: Words of Wisdom - August 28, 2019 💌

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The first step of karma yoga is to get free of the attachments to your own life, to develop a witness. We have thousands of me’s and th...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Learning to Look at Our Anger

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Anger limits us. But if we have the courage to look at our anger and its causes and to learn from it, we can develop an open heart—a hear...

Via Compassion for Those Who Harm Us

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The law of karma implies that we must assume our share of responsibility in what happens to us. This is easier in the case of happiness a...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 25, 2019 💌

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Most means of gaining livelihood do not, in and of themselves, increase the illusion of separateness. However, the beings who do ...

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  My Christian life is thus a journey for which there is no literal roadmap. I am convinced that if I walk this journey deeply enoug...

Via Daily Dharma: Finding the Sacred in Simplicity

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Our lives, just as they are, plain and simple, are filled with miracles. Nothing special, nothing holy; or rather, everything special, ev...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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Applying attention to smaller emotions—or simply focusing on form, sound, or physical sensations—develops your capacity to look at long-t...

Via Daily Dharma: Stock Your Emotional Toolbox

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Applying attention to smaller emotions—or simply focusing on form, sound, or physical sensations—develops your capacity to look at long-t...
Friday, August 23, 2019

#PrayforAmazonia

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E agora José?!... E agora Maria?! Não importa mais agora em quem você votou. Importa, Agora, é a Defesa da Natureza, é a Consciênci...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: How to Stop Suffering

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Buddhism presents rigorous means of investigating the causes of suffering and happiness. It is intent not only on counteracting suffering o...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

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

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To live consciously you must have the courage to go inside yourself to find out who you really are, to understand that behind all...

Via Daily Dharma: Becoming Honest about Who We Are

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Meditation is a patient process of knowing that gradually over time, habits are dissolving. We don’t actually get rid of anything. We are...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Fleeting Nature of Sensation

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Whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, gross or subtle, every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, ari...
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