Summary: Saving yourself is the topic of this episode. As our Sutra says, you are to be your own refuge, with the Dharma as your guide. Buddhism teaches that, if you are going to be saved, you are going to have to save yourself. Of course, salvation here means being delivered from suffering and dissatisfaction. I prefer to use the word liberation rather than salvation, because in Buddhism, there is no Savior. You must liberate yourself from attachment, and hence from suffering and dissatisfaction. Sutra: "Bhikkhus, dwell with yourselves as an island, with yourselves as a refuge, with no other refuge; with the Dhamma as an island, with the Dhamma as a refuge, with no other refuge." - SN 22.43 Outline: Introduction I. Not from an Outside Agency. II. Not from Deluded Thinking and action III. From Seeing Clearly. Conclusion
