Creating Community

With any endeavor, it is helpful to be accompanied by others who share similar aspirations and commitment. Their presence and their insight, their unique experiences of happiness and of sorrows, are your strength when you are tired. They challenge you to grow out of your small view of the world, to see things through the eyes of Interbeing.

What connects us all is our deep aspiration to live an awakened life in peace and harmony with ourselves and with others; our desire to heal the wounds that lie buried within our bodies and minds; and by our commitment to serve society.

Alone we are vulnerable, but with brothers and sisters to work with, we can support each other. We cannot go to the ocean as a drop of water — we would evaporate before reaching our destination. But if we become a river, if we go as a Sangha, we are sure to arrive at the ocean…