One of my favorite teachers, Tara Brach, shares this in the Huffington Post:
When the Buddha was dying, he gave a final message to his beloved attendant Ananda, and to generations to come:
“Be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge.”
In his last words, the Buddha was urging us to see this truth: Although you may search the world over trying to find it, your ultimate refuge is none other than your own being.





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