When life feels shaky, fast-moving, or overwhelming, it’s natural to look for something steady to rest in. And for most people, there actually is a lot that protects and nurtures you every day — it’s just easy to take it for granted.
So this week, I encourage you to really take in the deep nourishment of refuge—the places, people, practices, and inner qualities that help you feel protected, grounded, and replenished.
I also offered up a meditation on 4 Steps to Inner Peace, and I hope you’ll check it out.
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Talk: Thankfulness for What Protects and Nurtures You
Timecodes & main topics:
- 0:00 — Refuge from childhood to adulthood — what felt safe, comforting, and replenishing when you were young, and how that still lives in you today.
- 4:33 — Giving thanks for the refuges in your life — gratitude as a way to deepen your sense of belonging and steadiness.
- 7:42 — Finding refuge in unsettling times — how to ground yourself amid change, fragmentation, and climate anxiety.
- 9:15 — Creative ways to relate to the Three Refuges — Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha as living resources within and around you.
- 20:07 — Recognizing what you know for sure — appreciating your own earned wisdom and good character.
- 21:38 — Community as refuge — monastics, fellow practitioners, global meditators, and the people walking this path with you.
- 25:06 — Your inner Sangha — appreciating the many parts within you, even the difficult ones, and thanking them for their efforts.
- 30:43 — The unconditioned and the mystery — reflections on the absolute, the conditioned world, and where we take ultimate refuge.
A Meditation: 4 Steps to Inner Peace
If you’ve been feeling tense, fearful, or disconnected from yourself, this practice guides you back into a grounded, calm, openhearted state, so you can rest in your own being with less anxiety and more peace.
