They go to many a refuge,
to mountains, forests,
parks, trees, and shrines:
people threatened with danger.
That's not the secure refuge,
that's not the highest refuge,
that's not the refuge,
having gone to which,
one gains release
from all suffering and stress.
But a person who, having gone for refuge
to the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha,
sees the four Noble Truths
with right discernment--
stress,
the cause of stress,vthe transcending of stress,vand the Noble Eightfold Path,
the way to the stilling of stress:
That is the secure refuge,vthat is the highest refuge,
that is the refuge,
having gone to which,
one gains release
from all suffering and stress.
--Dhammapada, 1881-192