Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn (to participate you will need a 20” red string.)

A verse from Ryokan, an eighteenth-century Zen poet, came to mind: “To find the Buddhist law, drift east and west, come and go, entrusting yourself to the waves.”

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.2	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.4	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:26.8	Namaste and welcome.
0:30.2	A happy new year to all that are here and all that have joined us on the live stream
0:37.8	and all those that are coming in at some other point in time through the podcast.
0:44.1	I thought maybe I'd begin with one of my favorite of the Zen stories where a novice
0:51.3	approaches the Zen Abbott and asks the question that's been plaguing him and the question is,
0:57.7	what happens after we die?
1:00.8	And the Zen Abbott said, I don't know.
1:05.6	And the monk is very upset by that.
1:07.7	He said, I thought you were Zen priest, Zen Abbott.
1:11.9	And the response was, I am, but not a dead one.
1:18.6	And it's such a universal that we try to figure out our lives.
1:24.8	We try to control things by having some clear solid understanding of what's going on.
1:31.7	And as we know, our best laid plan, similar how much we figure out an arrange and plan
1:37.8	and anticipate these bodies do what these bodies do and these emotions play themselves out
1:45.1	and my God, other people do what they do and it's out of control.
1:51.4	And this is true.
1:52.4	It's out of control even for those in the most dominant position to the dominant culture.
1:57.7	And I was thinking of this cartoon.
1:59.5	I saw some wild back of these two metal bedecked generals and they're striding down the
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