Resource Index | Left Brain | Right Brain | Courses | Site Directory

Refuge Prayers in English

In All These I Take Refuge

The Mind of Light is called Enlightenment

In this I take Refuge

The Body of Truth is called the Dharma

In this I find solace

The Teachers of Truth are called the Sangha

In them I find comfort and courage.

 

My mind is not separate from the Mind of Enlightenment

I vow to sweep away its cobwebs

My knowledge can grow to be an exhibition of Truth

I vow to burnish my awareness

My body is a storehouse for learning and development

I vow to treat it with honour and kindness.

 

The energy of breath rising is the energy of growth

The energy of breath falling is the energy of return

The midpoint of balance is the place of union

Where Body, Speech and Mind join together

and the jump to Transcendent Wisdom

becomes Possible

 

In all these I take Refuge.

Catherine Jetsun Yeshe
Stone Tara Retreat, Havelock, Ontario
July 3, 1998

Refuge

I take refuge in Buddha, Heart Mind

I take refuge in Dharma, laws within and laws without

I take refuge in Sangha, my body and the body of friends

who love me, exhort me and cajole me

To tread with footsteps of awareness

On the Path to Wisdom.

Catherine Jetsun Yeshe
Toronto 1998

Resource Index | Left Brain | Right Brain | Courses | Site Directory