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First question here.

Would you speak about the notion of taking refuge in the Buddha?

Darman Sunga declared to me, the Buddha feels distant, historical.

What is the movement towards finding that refuge?

One of the in writing to refuge, the ways I describe the refuge is Buddha as awareness.

There is the historical Buddha, but that historical Buddha is an inspiration of our potential to

realize luminous, loving awareness.

We can use that as a bridge in our mind, but the direct refuge is really turning towards

that innate original awakeness and tenderness of our being, that openness.

One of the descriptions that I like best, Chogam Trunk by Tibetan teacher at one point,

I brought a big white sheet of poster paper and he drew a little Vian and he said, what

is this?

And most people guessed it was a bird and he said, no, it's the sky with a bird flying

through it.

Most of our waking moments, key characteristic of the transfer in is that our minds are

fixated on the V and interpreting it as a bird and we're forgetting the space of beingness

and awareness that everything's happening in.

I sometimes think of it like we're sitting in a movie theater, we're fixated on the

screen, we're mostly inside the story that's on the screen.

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