Dharma is your refuge

I look everywhere and see clearly that in this world, in the elements, in all of Dharma, there is no one who can help me except myself. So I have always tried to help myself. Who can help with our suffering? I always think of ways to help myself, hoping to rely on myself, hoping to rely on the Dharma within me. That’s how I’ve survived everything, because I have the Dharma as my refuge.

May 5, 1980