we have very little control over the things that happen to us. the best we can do is choose how we respond to those things.

this is the doorway to freedom, to Real Refuge.

I started my mindfulness practice in 2013 after my first cancer diagnosis. I wanted to learn how to discern between what was within my control and what wasn’t. This inward journey dramatically transformed my mind, my heart and my life.

The Real Refuge Sangha was born.

What is Real refuge?

• Equanimity: learn to thrive despite the eight worldly winds that the Buddha said are constantly blowing through our lives: pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and ill-repute

• Lovingkindness: choose to love with a fully open heart, even with the knowledge that what you love could be taken from you at any moment

• Compassion: recognize suffering in others and experience a heartfelt desire to relieve that suffering

• Connection: reside in equanimity, radiate lovingkindness, and exude compassion, becoming a refuge for others who might be struggling

• Resilience: everything is impermanent — every feeling you’ve ever felt, every thought you’ve ever had, every hurt you’ve ever experienced has arisen and faded away; let this help you endure anything that comes your way.

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