This is the third piece on Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels - I take refuge in the sangha. Or in our way of saying it, I take refuge in those that rest in the awakened mind. The strange thing is, despite being involved with several Buddhist sanghas throughout my life, writing this has been hard. The easy bit is the standard definition. The word sangha means community or assembly. Originally it simply meant the assembly of Buddhist monks and nuns who were in a reciprocal rel

The second of the Three Jewels of refuge is the Dharma. The Dharma is the Buddhist teachings generally but when we say the Buddha - or...

Last week we looked at our relationship to refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. This week let’s begin a little journey where we look...

After we have taken refuge we then recite the aspiration of the bodhisattva …. “May I be a guard for those who need protection … etc.”....