Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.