Sometimes the more we organize, the more trouble the organization will become. It is our way of being that can bring about the well-being of the community. It is our practice of mindfulness, concentration, insight, loving kindness that is doing the work of organizing. The Buddha, before his passing away, was asked whether he would like to appoint someone to continue to lead the Sangha. He said, no, we don't need a leader. And he was very aware that the Sangha is an organism. If the Sangha practices well, everything will be fine. We don't need a leader at all. The Buddha did not consider himself as a leader. He did not consider himself as a director. He did not consider himself as the boss. He was very pleased of being a monk. He [held] his bowl and he went begging for food like any other monk. He [sat] at the foot of a tree like any other monk.

But he is a great inspiration for the whole Sangha. And that's what we should do. We should be an inspiration for the Sangha. By our way of acting in harmony, in compassion. When the Sangha comes in the organism, the Sangha will know how to do it. Because the ground of to do is to be. If you know how to be it, and then, naturally, you don't have to worry about to do. To be is the foundation of to do. We have seen that in our second Dharma talk. So many of us have thought that we need to organize somehow because that is an order, the Order of Interbeing. Now it's about eight hundred members in the world. It's quite an organization. The Vatican is very well organized as a religion.