{"id":1077,"date":"2015-05-05T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/?page_id=1077"},"modified":"2015-09-07T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T04:24:26","slug":"the-refuge-chant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/chants-and-songs\/plum-village-chants\/the-refuge-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Refuge Chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/refuge-chant-sr-the-nghiem-and-michael.mp3\">The Refuge Chant<\/a> (MP3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE REFUGE CHANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(bell)<\/strong><br \/>\nIncense perfumes the atmosphere.<br \/>\nA lotus blooms and the Buddha appears.<br \/>\nThe world of suffering and discrimination<br \/>\nis filled with the light of the Rising Sun.<br \/>\nAs the dust of fear and anxiety settles,<br \/>\nwith an open heart and one-pointed mind<br \/>\nI turn to the Three Jewels.<\/p>\n<h5>\u00a0( bell )<\/h5>\n<p>The Fully Enlightened One, beautifully seated, peaceful, and smiling<br \/>\na living source of understanding and compassion,<br \/>\nto the Buddha I go for refuge.<\/p>\n<h5>( bell )<\/h5>\n<p>The path of mindful living,<br \/>\nleading to healing, joy, and enlightenment,<br \/>\nthe way of peace,<br \/>\nto the Dharma I go for refuge.<\/p>\n<h5>( bell )<\/h5>\n<p>The loving and supportive community of practice,<br \/>\nrealizing harmony, awareness, and liberation,<br \/>\nto the Sangha I go for refuge.<\/p>\n<h5>( bell )<\/h5>\n<p>I am aware that the Three Gems are within my heart.<br \/>\nI vow to realize them,<br \/>\npracticing mindful breathing and smiling,<br \/>\nlooking deeply into things.<\/p>\n<p>I vow to understand living beings and their suffering.<br \/>\nto cultivate compassion and loving kindness,<br \/>\nto practice joy and equanimity.<\/p>\n<h5>( bell )<\/h5>\n<p>I vow to offer joy to one person in the morning<br \/>\nto help relieve the grief of one person in the afternoon.<br \/>\nLiving simply and sanely with few possessions,<br \/>\nkeeping my body healthy.<\/p>\n<p>I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety<br \/>\nin order to be light and free.<\/p>\n<h5>( bell )<\/h5>\n<p>I am aware that I owe so much<br \/>\nto my parents, teachers, friends, and all beings.<\/p>\n<p>I vow to be worthy of their trust, to practice wholeheartedly<br \/>\nso that understanding and compassion will flower,<br \/>\nhelping living beings to be free from their suffering.<\/p>\n<p>May the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha<br \/>\nsupport my efforts.<\/p>\n<h5>( bell ) ( bell )<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Refuge Chant (MP3) THE REFUGE CHANT (bell) Incense perfumes the atmosphere. A lotus blooms and the Buddha appears. The world of suffering and discrimination is filled with the light of the Rising Sun. As the dust of fear and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/chants-and-songs\/plum-village-chants\/the-refuge-chant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":951,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1077","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077\/revisions\/1084"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavesandwater.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}