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, October 21, 2019

'Compassion, Truth and Adversity' with Ram Dass and Sharon Salzberg

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There’s no doubt that we all have adversity, and these days it’s even more obvious in our very difficult world. In this new film, Compa...

Via Ram Dass / Metta Meditation... from the Heart

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First thing is to acknowledge what you’re feeling: “My heart is closed.” I’ll tell you there are numerous practices for this, and y...

Via Daily Dharma: An Interconnected Experience

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Our experience is not primarily that of a separate consciousness trapped in its head; rather, when we look out at a sunset, we experience...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2019 💌

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"Wherever you are, be it at the beginning of the journey, well on your way, or resting comfortably at some height, you must acknow...

Via Daily Dharma: Every Moment Is Significant

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Life is mostly about mundane experiences. When you start thinking that only your most thrilling experiences are significant, you have alr...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Via This Day in Gay History : Divine

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1945 - DIVINE , American actor born (ne Glenn Milstead) (d. 1988); best known for his drag persona, Divine . In the 1970s, Milstead...

Via Daily Dharma: Discovering Truth

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Grief can lead us to a profound understanding that reaches beyond our individual loss. It opens us to the most essential truth of our liv...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Via Ram Dass

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Maharajji said, “ The best form in which to worship God is all forms. ” Everyone you meet is Ram who has come to teach you something. Mantra...

Via Daily Dharma: How to Hold Your Mind Open

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Thoughts are endless, and they rush in to fill the yawning well of awareness. But one might learn to hold that space open, with practice....
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: What Questions about the Self Really Matter?

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Puzzling over the metaphysics of the self, the Buddha said, pulls us away from what really matters, and from posing the question about ou...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Via Utne / Entangled by the World

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Photo by Getty Images/Aydinmutlu “Wisdom seems to sprout from the most unusual places and in the most unexpected moments.”  “I...

Via Coventry Spiritualawareness / FB:

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Via Lion´s Roar / Extinction Rebellion activist Mark Ovland on bringing climate activism & Buddhism together

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Mark Ovland (center) at an Extinction Rebellion protest in November 2018. Photo by Steve Eason . Buddhadharma editor Tynette Dev...

Via Words of Wisdom - October 16, 2019 💌

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The sooner one develops compassion on this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or ...

Via Daily Dharma: Gifts at the End of Life

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The end of life often offers rare opportunities to affirm and deepen our highest human values—reconciling conflicts, sharing forgiveness ...

Via Daily Dharma: Sitting with Vulnerability

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By putting things in a bigger context, [we are] able to enter a whole realm of practice—learning to stay with the rawness or vulnerabilit...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Offer Yourself a Comfortable Refuge

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Any diligent practice of watchfulness, including meditation, requires routine and rhythm. During meditation, when we offer the body a fam...

Via ADAM & ANDY

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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Seeking Wiser Motivation

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When we wake up to how human life on this planet actually is, and stop running away or building walls in our heart, then we develop a wis...
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