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, September 20, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Continuous Renewal

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Buddhist psychology urges that we recognize that dying is a continuous process, going on all the time—a “perpetual succession of extremely ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Purpose of Mindfulness

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The purpose of nirvanic moments of mindfulness is to create an ethical space from which to see, think, speak, act, and work in ways that ...

Via Ram Dass // Words of Wisdom - September 18, 2019 💌

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There is great delight in tuning through a variety of different methods, and really looking to each method to move you in its own uniqu...

Via Daily Dharma: How to Combat Burnout

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Well-being, self-care, and self-love bring me joy, inner peace, hope, and happiness daily. This, I think, is the core of sustainability f...

Via Daily Dharma: The Outcomes of Wisdom

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Wisdom does not alter the world; it lets the sage transcend the world. —Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano, “The Phone Rings” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ...
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 ...
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