Spiritual community
“Without the Sangha [spiritual community], we cannot help living beings. We cannot do the work of transformation in the world. Therefore, taking refuge in the Sangha you have to actually participate in the work of Sangha-building. You have to use your talent to convene, to embrace, and to make it into one solid body. It also means to educate, to transform, and to make the Sangha more beautiful.”
By Thich Nhat Hanh in Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
Ilchi Lee has created what Thich Nhat Hanh calls a sangha. He calls it the World HongIk Organization (WHO). HongIk means “widely benefiting”. The WHO is constantly striving to help the world and the life in it. People need to work together in a community in order to create a widely benefiting and peaceful world. I think a spiritual community is a community of people who share similar values.
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