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.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: What Is Personal Transformation?

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The path of personal transformation is about deconstructing and reconstructing the self, or, more precisely, the relationship between th...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 4, 2019 πŸ’Œ

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"When talking about awareness, most of us identify with our awareness through the ego, through the mind and senses. But the true s...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Letting Your Desires Pass

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The next time you have some wanting or desire in the mind, investigate what the wanting feels like and then notice how it feels when the ...

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Monday, December 2, 2019

Via Tricycle: Unity In Difference

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Tibetan Buddhism’s nonsectarian rimΓ© philosophy offers four steps for folding ideological diversity into your spiritual practice. ...

Via Daily Dharma: The Power of a Single Person

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You need to pay attention to what is going on. You should never think that you can’t make a difference in this world. You can. That is ve...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Noticing Daily Wonders

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To be alive… is to be in full play with mystery and beauty and love. You live on a very strange little speck of rock in a very remote cor...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 1, 2019 πŸ’Œ

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"It is the continuing work of life: of learning to trust that the universe is unfolding exactly as it should, no matter how i...

Via White Crane Institute: World AIDS Day

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2017 - WORLD AIDS DAY : dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. AIDS has killed ...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Cracking the Ice of Delusion

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The highest expression of our human nature is to purify our minds. To clear away the clouds, the sheets of snow, the ice that we’re encas...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: How to Truly Address Dissatisfaction

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Consumerism promotes desire and dissatisfaction, the very source of suffering, as explained in the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths. … What is ...

Via White Crane Institute / MICHAEL COHEN

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1997 - On this date the pioneering gay singer-songwriter  MICHAEL COHEN died (b: 1951). Sadly, Cohen has largely been forgo...

Via White Crane Institute: This Day in Gay History November 28:

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1944 - RITA MAE BROWN American writer, born; Best known for her mysteries and other novels (Rubyfruit Jungle), she is also an E...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: A Thanksgiving Blessing

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We receive this food in gratitude from all beings who helped to bring it to our table, and vow to respond in turn to those in need with wis...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Via Ram Dass // Words of Wisdom - November 27, 2019 πŸ’Œ

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"Ours is a journey toward simplicity, toward quietness, toward a kind of joy that is not in time. In this journey out of time to ...

Via Daily Dharma: Developing Tolerance of Differing Views

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The key to developing tolerance is to separate the validity of an idea from the validity of the person holding the idea. Behind every ide...

Via Lion's Roar: Buddhism’s Next 40 Years: Right Activism

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I believe modern thought’s greatest contribution to Buddhism is to our understanding of the second noble truth—the causes of suffering. ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Uncover Your Great Determination

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When the great root of faith and the great ball of doubt are present, great determination will arise. Great determination is a strong resol...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Power of Small Transformations

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We are constantly being transformed when we travel on the path. While we may be the same individual on one level, on another level we are d...
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