Awareness is Your Refuge

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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"Awareness is your refuge. Awareness of the changingness of feelings, of attitudes, of moods, of material change and emotional change. Stay with that, because it’s a refuge that is indestructible. It’s not something that changes. It’s a refuge you can trust in. This refuge is not something that you create. It’s not a creation. It’s not an ideal. It’s very practical and very simple, but easily overlooked or not noticed. When you’re mindful, you’re beginning to notice, it’s like this." -Ajahn Sumedho

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode we're going to talk about why awareness is your refuge.
0:16.5	More to come on what that means in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the
0:21.4	sound of the bells. Okay, so I'd like to start by reading a quote for you by the great teacher Aijon Somato, he says,
0:55.5	Awareness is your refuge.
0:58.6	Awareness of the changingness of feelings,
1:01.6	of attitudes, of moods, of material. of that is indestructible. It's not something that changes. It's a refuge you can trust in.
1:17.2	This refuge is not something that you create. It's not a creation. It's not an ideal.
1:23.0	It's very practical and very simple,
1:26.0	but easily overlooked or not noticed.
1:29.0	When you're mindful, you're beginning to notice,
1:32.0	it's like this.
1:34.0	Okay, so awareness is your refuge.
1:39.0	I'm just gonna review some of those first lines
1:41.4	because I think there's a lot of power and meaning packed
1:45.5	into this quote that can easily be overlooked. So let's just review some of it.
1:52.0	Awareness is your refuge, right? So let's just review some of it.
1:52.8	Awareness is your refuge, right?
1:54.4	So he's saying that awareness itself,
1:56.9	this capacity to know what is happening,
2:00.2	that itself is your refuge.
2:03.0	Awareness of the changingness of feelings, of attitudes, of moods, of material change, and emotional change.
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