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.

Monday, September 16, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Acknowledging Our Blindspots Inbox x

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The capacity to recognize and accept where we are and to investigate what must be changed to minimize the harm that our own views and bli...

Via Words of Wisdom - September 15, 2019 💌 Inbox x

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"...For every teacher, every life experience, everything we notice in the universe is but a reflection of our attachments. That i...

Via Daily Dharma: Dissolve Insecurity by Releasing Your Ego

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We often think that insecurity comes from a weak ego, but in my experience it is the result of an inflexible ego that has mistaken itself a...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Practicing to Benefit All Beings

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As we cultivate the ability to see clearly, to understand one another, all beings benefit in ways we comprehend and ways that are still b...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Via Tricycle: Bartelby the Buddhist / A legal proofreader brings his practice to work.

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H as your life delivered you to the very place you expected it would? Mine hasn’t. At this moment, late on a Saturday night, I find mys...

Via Daily Dharma: Keeping an Ongoing Practice

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Enlightenment and mastery are great goals, but not required to reap the benefits of Buddhism. The main thing is to have a practice, and t...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Via Bhavana Society of West Virginia / FB: MINDFULNESS OF SKILLFUL SPEECH

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MINDFULNESS OF SKILLFUL SPEECH If someone approaches you and speaks irritatingly-nagging or gossiping about one of your friends, for ...

Via Daily Dharma: Learning to Love with Your Whole Heart

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Most of us haven’t been taught that to receive love deeply and transmit it wholeheartedly is a real human possibility, that it can be lea...

Via Words of Wisdom - September 11, 2019 💌 Inbox x

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"My relation to Maharajji has gone way beyond the romantic quality of guru. I mean, that’s not really what the issue is between us...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Via Tricycle: Are there different kinds of Buddhism?

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  Although there are thousands of different schools and sects of Buddhism, they all generally belong to one of two major traditi...

Via Daily Dharma: Hope for a Better Future

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The things you have been suffering with up until a certain moment can change in an instant to a new way of thinking. —Interview with Itte...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Lessons of Ordinary Life

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My practice can remind me to bow down to all the intimate, ordinary details of my life—whether I’m picking smashed raisins from the floor...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 8, 2019 💌

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"I think that the assignment for us is very clear in terms of the game on Earth. I think it is to be instruments that allow the w...

Daily Dharma: The Boundless Effects of Attention

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When you wash and dry a single spoon and give it your full attention, you are expressing care for the entire universe. —Gary Thorp, “The ...
Saturday, September 7, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Notice What You Nourish

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Disposed to anger or kindness, we feel angry or kind and act it out, and thereby get more disposed to anger or kindness. Which wolf gets ...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Benefits of Difficult Situations

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We should be especially grateful for having to deal with annoying people and difficult situations, because without them we would have nothi...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Becoming Allies with Our Bodies

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Between indulgence and renunciation, something magical begins to happen, a new attitude and new attention toward the body appears—a searc...

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Matías y Jerónimo (2015) Short Film | Esteros 2016 (SPANISH with ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

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