“Spirit is sovereign, the Dharma is timeless and boundaryless. … So grateful and fortunate to be able to take refuge, to know there is something more than the sunlight and shadow of the many mountain peaks of the vacillating graph of our outer and worldly life. That there’s a deeper source of refuge, solace, reliance. Refuge means reliable, not relying on the impermanent things of this world, outer things or inner vacillations, the vagaries of experience. We can be deeper people, live in our spiritual center. Where is our spiritual center? (And I don’t mean the address or what town it’s in.) Can we find alignment? Can we stop and take a breath? Step off the treadmill of conditioning, staggering forward under the moment, the baggage, as if life is a to-do list. Tune more into being. Can we ever just stop and just Be? … When I take a breath and drop everything and just Be, that’s taking refuge in the Buddha.” ~ Lama Surya Das, Meditation Town Hall, April 3, 2022
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