While in my weekly Buddhist class, my teacher said, “Training in the mind is going for refuge. Go for refuge.” As the teacher explained, going for refuge is letting go of ordinary thinking and allowing for an experience of peace to arise. Allow your mind to be a refuge of peace, compassion, and kindness.
The first step is to let go and allow ourselves to drop into refuge – from a place of peace. As Kadam Morton said, “Your worry contributes nothing.” I’m still learning to let go of worry and drop into refuge from that state.
If you go for refuge, solutions arise.
Let go and breathe and wait for solutions to come.
Kadam Morton
What if we let the experience of refuge take over and allowed it to dissolve all that we are carrying?
What if we were willing to let go of our negative thoughts and actions and created more positive experiences and a more joyful life?
It starts with letting go and dropping out of our head and into our heart.
Go for refuge. Live from that space of inspiration and peace. Give yourself permission to hang out in peace. When you live from the place of refuge, your mind becomes spacious and expansive and your world becomes more kind.