TAKING REFUGE ...
There are day in your life that shake you to the core of your being..
You feel there is something to uncover..
It lasts for months..for years..
Then one day you come across that book/person/situation that blows your mind .. opens your heart...leaves you wandering how you could breathe/live without knowing it.
Today was one of those days to me.
I have been reading 'The Wisdom of no escape' by PEMA CHODRON and i came to that chapter where she talks about 'taking refuge'. she says:
" i always thought that the phrase 'to take refuge' is very curious becaue it sounds theistic, dualistic , dependant, "to take refuge" in something. i i remember very clearly at a time of eneormous stress in my life, readin Alice in Wonderland. Alice became a heroine for me because she fell into this hole and she jut free-fell. She didn't grab for the edges, he wasn't terrified, trying to stop her fall; she just fell and she looked at things as she went down. Then when she landed, he was in a new place. She didn't take refuge in anything. I ued t aspire to be like that becauee i saw myelf getting near the hole and just screaming, holding back, not wanting to go anywhere where there was no hand to hold.
I every human life you are born and you are born alone. You go through that birth canal alone, and then you pop out alone.and then a whole process begins.(...) Tha t journey that you make, no mtter what your beliefabout that journey is, is made alone.the fundamental idea of taking refuge is that between birth and death we are alone. So fur us, taking refuge means that we feel that the way to live is to cut the ties, to cut the umbilical cord and alone tart the journey of being fully human, without confirmaton from others.(...)
you begin to explore , all the places where you cling, and everytime you cling, you realize, "AH! this is where , through my mindfullness and my tonglen and everythingthat i do, my whole life is a process of learning how to make friends with myself."
For me understanding that notion of getting naked to get whole.. getting independant to be complete is LIBERATION.
A path, i spent years to find.
A teaching that pointed me towards all the places where my suffering begun:"CLINGING".
You feel there is something to uncover..
It lasts for months..for years..
Then one day you come across that book/person/situation that blows your mind .. opens your heart...leaves you wandering how you could breathe/live without knowing it.
Today was one of those days to me.
I have been reading 'The Wisdom of no escape' by PEMA CHODRON and i came to that chapter where she talks about 'taking refuge'. she says:
" i always thought that the phrase 'to take refuge' is very curious becaue it sounds theistic, dualistic , dependant, "to take refuge" in something. i i remember very clearly at a time of eneormous stress in my life, readin Alice in Wonderland. Alice became a heroine for me because she fell into this hole and she jut free-fell. She didn't grab for the edges, he wasn't terrified, trying to stop her fall; she just fell and she looked at things as she went down. Then when she landed, he was in a new place. She didn't take refuge in anything. I ued t aspire to be like that becauee i saw myelf getting near the hole and just screaming, holding back, not wanting to go anywhere where there was no hand to hold.
I every human life you are born and you are born alone. You go through that birth canal alone, and then you pop out alone.and then a whole process begins.(...) Tha t journey that you make, no mtter what your beliefabout that journey is, is made alone.the fundamental idea of taking refuge is that between birth and death we are alone. So fur us, taking refuge means that we feel that the way to live is to cut the ties, to cut the umbilical cord and alone tart the journey of being fully human, without confirmaton from others.(...)
you begin to explore , all the places where you cling, and everytime you cling, you realize, "AH! this is where , through my mindfullness and my tonglen and everythingthat i do, my whole life is a process of learning how to make friends with myself."
For me understanding that notion of getting naked to get whole.. getting independant to be complete is LIBERATION.
A path, i spent years to find.
A teaching that pointed me towards all the places where my suffering begun:"CLINGING".
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