Refuge is an attitude, not a place. Many of us carry an idea of refuge as an "island where it all works out"—an imaginary place where we get everything we want and none of what we don’t. But that is a fantasy! What if we could find refuge here on earth?
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher
Pamela Weiss is a Buddhist teacher in Theravada and Soto Zen, and a guiding teacher at San Francisco Insight. She has been practicing since 1987, including several years of Zen monastic training and retreat teacher training through Spirit Rock. Pamela is the author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism.