Fearlessly Free From The Inside Out

Laura Basha

Every time we feel like ‘taking refuge’ in [the midst of] a habitual means of escape, we take off more armor, undoing all the stuff that covers over our wisdom and our gentleness and our awake quality. We’re not trying to be something we aren’t; rather, we’re reconnecting with who we are. So when we say, ‘I take refuge in the Buddha’, that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine.