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relationships between and among its various members. This is

one of the things which we stress very, very much indeed. We
feel that if there is to be any real, genuine Buddhist movement in

this country, as we hope there eventually will be, it can only grow
out of a community of people who are ethically, psychologically,
and spiritually really and truly in contact and communication with

one another — who are not just fellow members but friends and
related, perhaps, even more deeply than that on the spiritual

plane. This is yet another aspect of the ideal society. We should
feel that our own small Sangha, or Spiritual Community, our own
small Order, is just an exemplification on a very small scale of the

ideal society of the future: a society in which Perfect Livelihood is
practised to the full, as, unfortunately, it is not practised in the

world at large today.

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