Take Refuge

I don’t know about you, but right now I’m resting up. I know it won’t be long before there’ll be plenty to do, and when that time comes, I want to be resourced, ready to go. Thank you to my friends in the Working Group for Law & Meditation and especially to our teacher, Norman Fischer, for permission, encouragement, and optimism, around resting up. Passing along their wisdom.

Transcript

Okay,

So yeah,

Let's take some refuge right now and find your seat.

Find whatever posture will most support you taking refuge in this present moment.

Come to stillness.

Sometimes stillness itself can be a kind of refuge.

Inviting the body,

The heart,

The mind into whatever stillness,

Whatever silence is available.

Finding your anchor,

Maybe that's the breath.

Maybe that sound,

Especially if it's quiet where you are.

Maybe that's the sense of the body sitting.

And just invite the attention to rest on that anchor in that one place.

The silence,

The breath,

Sound,

The body.

No matter how,

See,

The mind might be or fidgety the body might be or activated the heart might be,

Is there a place of refuge,

A moment even of just letting go?

Yeah,

The peace of that,

The peace.

And also the power of refuge,

Something that you can take with you out into your day,

A recollection of that feeling of peace.

If there's any sense of wanting to get to the to-do list,

Just seeing if you can take that backwards step,

That backwards step into the present moment and just rest,

Take refuge.

And then for the last few breaths of this sit,

Just taking note of how that moment of rest or refuge feels.

And taking it with you today.