Refuge
3 min readNov 5, 2021
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“Bound, themselves, in the prison of samsara,
Whom are the worldly gods able to protect?
Therefore, it is the practice of the bodhisattvas
To go for refuge in the three unfailing jewels.”
-the 37 practices of a bodhisattva, verse 7*
Samsara means suffering. Actually, samsara doesn’t mean suffering. But that is how this word usually gets translated. Samsara means that things are a little off. In life, things are a little off. When people say, “the Buddha taught that life is full of suffering” that’s not really a…