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Finding True Refuge: Meditation Stories Told Through Video

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"Finding True Refuge" is a web series that provides an intimate look at the healing power of meditation. Listen to teachers, leaders, new and experienced students share how meditation practice has helped to heal and awaken their hearts. As they reveal their stories in video interviews, discover what inspired them to begin meditating, as well as what has most helped them find peace and freedom in the midst of life’s difficulties.


Terry is an incest survivor who has used food as her main source of comfort for many years. Her metta practice enables her to see this trauma as a wild beast at the edge of a forest -- and to look at it in the eye, from a distance.

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