An extract (but I forgot where. My apologies to the author)
As Buddhists, we have to remember that we take refuge in the Triple Gem for guidance, protection and blessing –
constantly and profoundly. It is not an ignorant, fearful passive mentality but an active process of learning, trying and keeping at it.
Driven only by fear, men go for refuge to many places — to hills, woods, groves, trees and shrines. Such, indeed, is no safe refuge; such is not the refuge supreme. Not by resorting to such a refuge is one released from all suffering.
He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Teaching and his Order, penetrates with transcendental wisdom the Four Noble Truths — suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path leading to the cessation of suffering.
This indeed is the safe refuge, the refuge supreme. Having gone to such a refuge, one is released from all suffering.
— Dhammapada 188-192
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