They go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to parks and tree shrines: people threatened with danger.

That’s not the secure refuge,

Not the supreme refuge,

That’s not the refuge, having gone to which,

You gain release from all discontentedness and stress.

But when, having gone to The Buddha, The Teachings, and The Community for refuge, you see with right wisdom The Four Noble Truths — stress, the cause of stress, the transcending of stress, and The Noble Eight Fold Path, the way to the stilling of stress:

That’s the secure refuge, that’s,

The supreme refuge,

That is the refuge, having gone to which,

You gain release from all discontentedness and stress.

(Reference: DHP 188-192)

Refuge: Shelter or protection from danger or distress. A place that provides shelter or protection. Something to which one has recourse in difficulty.