Declare your vision and mission
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January 25, 2012
Everyone should understand their vision and mission in life.
Sit first with yourself. Describe your life's purpose, vision and mission to yourself. Describe it elaborately. Then, after you are very clear, gather a sangha meeting. Let every person describe their life's purpose, vision and mission to the whole sangha.
Understand, here nobody can interfere with another's purpose. Nobody has the right to teach another person his life's purpose. They should only support the person to fulfill his purpose. No vision is wrong. But the vision has to be clear. So, if somebody wants to marry twenty thousand women, be soaked in brandy and whisky, and does not want to come to consciousness, who are we to judge whether it is right or wrong? Nobody has the right to judge. Whether you want a spiritual ambience, a business partner or a life partner, I have no problem. Be honest to your vision and mission and express it honestly to the sangha.
Today, each of you should sit and pen down what you feel is the purpose of your life, of your existence. Tomorrow, each person should describe why he is alive, and each of the others in the group should take a vow - I will support this person to fulfill his life's mission in whatever way I can. If I cannot, I will move out, I will keep quiet. But I will not disturb him. Each person should be looked at based on their vision statement - as their possibility, not as their past. So relate to each person as their vision statement. And because you also describe your vision to the whole sangha, you will also feel more connected to the whole sangha.
The person who takes the decision to support you in your life's mission or vision is mitra, friend. Buddha says that the future sangha should be with tremendous friendliness. Now it is time each person understood his vision clearly and expressed it clearly to the sangha.
But remember, if you have some vision, but you express something else to the sangha, then the sangha will support only what you express! This will be a constant pulling and pushing for you. If you said you want to go north, but you actually want to go south, then sangha will be pulling you north, and afterwards you cannot say, 'No, non I want to go south!' So you have to be really, really very clear. All you guys have to take this step.
Activity Sit and pen down the purpose of your life, of your existence. Gather a few close friends or family members and have them also do the same. Share your life vision and purpose with one another, so that you may support one another based on what was expressed.