But we don't want that. We don't want the Order of Interbeing to become something like that. That is the last thing we want. We want the Order of Interbeing to be a living organism. We don't want any leader, any boss, any director; that is what we want, and some of us will say that how can we survive without some organizing? In the beginning someone may have thought like that, but by this time she has awakened to the fact that we need only to be, and that will take care of everything. When the Sangha comes and be together in harmony, that is all. You don't need to do anything anymore. You behave like the birds flying in its formation. A formation of birds. They don't fly as individuals. You know very well that they fly as a formation. It's very beautiful, very powerful. The Sangha is like that. And the question... How can we allow the Order of Interbeing to be an inspiration for society, become a kung an?

And that cannot be solved by the intellect alone. When you come and discuss about organizing, you are using your intellect. But when you come together and practice sitting and breathing in and out, and become together, you become an organism. And that theme, that question that you have put, how for the Order of Interbeing to become an inspiration and a refuge for the world, become the kung an. You need only to be there as an organism and holding very tenderly that question, that kung an in your mind and then the insight will come. It's not by doing a lot of thinking, it's not by doing a lot of organizing that we can answer to the question. It is by being there, producing the energy of mindfulness, concentration and insight that we realize, we invent, we create the energy of harmony, of togetherness. And from that foundation will come the insight as how to be the inspiration as an organism. It's clear?

This way of being, this way of operating is quite different. The Sangha way. It is the energy of mindfulness and togetherness that will realize everything. And not some five-year plan or something like that. The question is whether the Sangha can come together and be together as an organism. The whole question is that. How to arrange so that the Sangha can be together and love, love, love. That is the only concern. Because the coming together of a Sangha can bring a lot of happiness, can bring a lot of relief, a lot of transformation, a lot of confidence. Because the Sangha always generates the energy of mindfulness and concentration and insight. And the Sangha becomes holy because of its practice of mindfulness. It's very beautiful to see a Sangha silent, moving silently and in harmony. They organize, but they don't organize. They don't look as if they are organizing. They are moving very, very softly, very silently, like the bees.