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ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM IN INDONESIA: 17-30 JUNE 2002

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A series of events and celebrations mark-ing the end of Bapak’s Centennial will take place in Indonesia between 17th & 30th June 2002. While the contents and details are still being finalized, the nature and the dates of these activities are now fixed. This program supplants and re-places the end-of-Centennial program announced earlier. ZONE 1/2 ASIA PACIFIC COUNCIL

MEETING: June 17 −18 � 19

The meeting will take place in Cipanas, a hill resort, 2 to 3 hours drive from Jakarta, and around 15 − 30 minutes drive to Ba-pak’s final resting place in Suka Mulia. 25�35 delegates are expected. A major intention of this meeting is to reinforce interactive and harmonious relation be-tween the countries of the zone, between committee and kejiwaan participants, and between the various reps. Another focus is Subud Indonesia’s recent, and remark-able, ‘grassroots’ membership growth − in accordance with the suggestion of the deputy Zone rep, there will be a visit to a Subud group in the village of Cikareo, near Suka Mulia. The gathering’s agenda will hopefully cover the situation, the needs and hopes of the Subud countries of this Zone. The Zone coordinators are: Raina McKechnie, rainamck@hotmail.com, and Mursalin New, rsp@rungansari.net . Pak Aziz coordinates the event in Indonesia, subudind@dnet.net.id

INTERNATIONAL KEJIWAAN GATHERING:

June 20 − 21, in Wisma Subud.

It is expected that more than two hundred members from Indonesia and around the world might attend. A suggested focus for

the gathering is one’s own individual effort to en-hance the presence, appli-cation and usefulness of the latihan in daily life − a need repeatedly empha-sized by Bapak in his talks, and by Ibu Rahayu in her talks. The gathering begins with latihan, pro-ceeds with kejiwaan ses-sions in morning and af-ternoon, and culminates with a talk (and possibly testing) by Ibu Rahayu, in the evening − open to everyone. (On the morn-ing of the 21st, there may be latihan again and a final sharing time.) WAYANG KULIT PERFORANCE: Night of 21/22 June, in Wisma Subud

A traditional Javanese all-night shadow puppet performance of the classic lakon play Dewa Ruci. The story tells how Bima, the strongest of the five heroic Pandawa brothers, embarks on a quest, triumphing over a series of apparently insurmountable trials and obstacles. Bima finally meets a tiny being called Dewa Ruci − whom Bapak once called Bima’s own true individual self − who reveals to Bima the enormity and content which lies within the innerself. This la-kon was chosen by Ibu Rahayu, because of its depth and because it can speak to Subud members. Some of us may recall, thirty years ago, the other Bima story Bapak chose for the 1971 Subud World Congress in Wisma Subud − Bima Bung-kus − where Bima emerges into the world. This 2002 performance of a story later in Bima’s life marks the Tumbuk Agung − the ‘rare conjunction’ − where Bapak’s birthday according to the Java-

nese lunar calendar and Bapak’s birthday according to the solar calendar, coincide. A synopsis of the play, in English, will be provided.

LATIHAN and REMEMBRANCE of BAPAK: 22 June, in Wisma Subud.

At 5 o’clock in the morning, there will be an opportunity to do a dawn latihan at the time and on the day of Bapak’s birth. Co-inciding with the end of Bapak’s Centen-nial, this June 22, 2002 also marks, in the Javanese tradition, one of the Tumbuk Agung, or rare conjunction when all the elements in the Javanese cyclic calendar which exist at the time of someone’s birth − specific year, specific day, specific type of day and specific month − coincide again on the birthday. To quote Pak Haryono: “I realise very well what Bapak Subuh meant for me, and consider that the conjunction of all the elements of the calendar has a certain meaning relating to the miracle of God presenting Bapak to this world. And this Tumbuk Agung may indicate a culmi-nation of God’s blessing.”

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EVENTS and COMMEMORATIONS at WISMA SUBUD, CIPANAS, SUKA MULIA and

RUNGAN SARI

Raina McKechnie, Zone 1 & 2 Representative. (Photo Lynnelle Stewart)

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How one man’s change in career path influenced curriculum development in Forestry in five Universities in Vietnam. In 1984 Bardolf Paul, a Canadian from Vancouver, was 40 years old. As Market-ing Manager, he ran his own graphic de-sign firm for fifteen years, together with fellow Subud member and business part-ner Karsten Smith. Two other spin-off enterprises evolved: Image Finders, a slide library which is still functioning to this day, and Slide Makers, which copied slide graphics for business and government presentations.

Since joining Subud in 1965, Bardolf paid a lot of attention to Bapak’s advice about the importance of doing work that ac-corded with the inner nature of each hu-man being. But each time he checked the direction he was taking, he felt strongly that he had to be patient. This was not really a problem, because “I was actually quite happy with what I was doing � marketing, liaising between clients and the design team, satisfying both their needs. It was stimulating, and we had good clients � large government bodies and cor-porate business as well as smaller busi-nesses.” But sometime in 1984 Bardolf felt that he had gone about as far as he could with the work he was doing. In a receiving in the Subud latihan, he felt that to continue was a kind of hell for his inner being. Further investigation led to “something in for-estry”. This was without doubt a change in direction! Bapak had always advised members to follow through such receiving with real commonsense. Not to totally give up one career path to follow another, but to keep working and make the transition in a grad-ual way, to see if it was the right time. So he did just that. He kept working, but took two correspondence courses in for-estry. They were simple foundation courses in forest ecology and silviculture, but they seemed right. Bardolf like the flavour. So, still working, he attended two part-time courses at the University of Brit-ish Columbia, which together would com-plete one year of a Bachelor of Science in Forestry. In 1983, at the World Congress at Anugraha in England, there had been a working group in Forestry. Bardolf con-tacted some of the people on its mailing list to see where the best place to study might be. “Do it where you are” was the advice of most.

With a family to feed, and an already suc-cessful business, Bardolf needed to be very sure of what he was doing. So he asked Bapak’s daughter Ibu Rahayu for advice, and she confirmed his new direc-tion was right. The Rightness of Receiving Three years later, Bardolf had his degree. During those years, he did some consult-ing work with his own partnership, and also with Reid Collins, a forestry company needing help with marketing. This paid more dividends, for even though Bardolf was in his forties with a brand new degree, he gained years experience with a well-respected firm.

Then came the first in a series of events that are typical of this story, confirming in fascinating ways the rightness of his re-ceiving. Indeed serendipity might have been Bardolf’s middle name. Global awareness was emerging on the environmental significance of forest re-sources. The United Nations began to hold large conferences. Scientists were alerting the world to the fact that the globe’s water storage and future medicines could depend on saving the remaining rain forests from destruction. And Bardolf began to think about the possibility of working overseas. Through his work with Reid Collins, he heard of a position with a Christian, church-based NGO working in forestry in South India, the very same NGO that had been one of his clients in the graphic de-sign business. Bardolf knew them well. Despite not being drawn to India, Reid Collins encouraged him to apply. It would be a way to pursue his growing interest in the implementation of Social Forestry. A new field, it presents a radical change from the traditional commercially focused model, which tends to be exploitative and technocratic, giving no thought to the

needs of the people living from and around the forest. Social Forestry has those people factored in as the key component in forest manage-ment. This is a significant shift, with global ap-plicability. In western countries there is already a widespread public awareness and concern about how forests are managed worldwide, but to a large extent they are removed from the day to day practical con-cerns. In developing countries, people live close to the forests, even inside them, and they are deeply dependent on them for their livelihood. It is in their interest to manage forests in a sustainable way. But back to Bardolf’s story. The NGO in South India already had a candidate for the position in Bangalore, but he withdrew, so the NGO then turned to Bardolf and he accepted. While waiting for his visa, which took eight months to be processed, he went to the 1989 World Congress in Sydney, Aus-tralia, only to find himself sharing a room with the delegates from South India! Participatory Rural Appraisal In September 1989, Bardolf finally reached Bangalore, a major city with a population of millions. It was a culture shock. Even an eight-month stay in Beirut in the ‘60s did not prepare him for Banga-lore. Vancouver was a world away. The different visual landscapes, the shops, the animals in the city, the blending of the urban with the rural, the paradox of the great sophistication of the city mixed with people living under cardboard boxes, all of it had to fit into a new paradigm of what was normal, what was correct behavior and what was not. Professionally, it was a tremendous learn-ing experience. Farmers in the rural areas were poor in ways Bardolf had never ex-perienced � both economically and in re-sources. Many were landless. The caste system is endemic in India, and many peo-ple’s attitudes are shaped by their percep-tion of caste. It was a time when all hori-zons, spiritually, emotionally and intellec-tually were broadened and sharpened. In India, the NGO community is huge, and it takes a long time to absorb the various philosophies of development they espouse. NGO’s are focused on people, their pov-erty and the solving of problems, and in India there was little, if any, support from

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BARDOLF PAUL

Bardolf Paul.

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government funding.By another coinci-dence of timing, Bardolf arrived in India at the same time as Robert Chambers. Robert is world renowned for his approach to third world development. His seminal book on the subject, called “Putting the Last First", reverses the roles of the then current development practice of putting experts first. Robert turned this top down approach on its head, by going to the people first, asking them what they needed and how they wanted their lives to change. His work developed into a new methodol-ogy, known world wide as Participatory Rural Appraisal or PRA. Robert worked closely with several Indian NGOs to develop his methodology, one of which was the local counterpart of the Ca-nadian NGO that contracted Bardolf. Having the chance to get to know Robert and observe his methods at first hand was a real bonus for Bardolf, as his own phi-losophy was so empathetic with PRA. Bardolf’s work with the tree-planting pro-gram initiated by the Canadian NGO in-volved organising training for the 24 NGOs (all local, from the state of Andrah Pradesh). He traveled extensively, working closely with the NGOs and the villages they supported, gaining a better under-standing of the people’s needs and local requirements for growing trees. Some farmers planted trees for fruit as a source of income; others for raw timber for houses and furniture; others again for poles, or firewood. Bardolf also produced newsletters, attended meetings all over the country, and took part in NGO workshops. They were good years, and the experience was to prove invaluable.

To Vietnam After two years the contract ended. Re-turning to Vancouver via a short stopover in London, he used the opportunity to visit an English NGO - the Overseas Develop-ment Institute, or ODI, which has a global Social Forestry network. The Director of ODI, Gill Shepherd, was particularly interested in Bardolf’s work in India, and a few months later rang to see if he would like to work in Vietnam. She knew of a Swedish company looking for someone to work there in Social Forestry. But he was not really interested in Viet-nam, (shades of India?) and had applied for a position with the World Wildlife Fund in Costa Rica. The Swedish company had their expatriate team signed up, but at the last minute their team leader could not take up the assign-ment. He was replaced from within the team, and an unexpected opening oc-curred. Bardolf became an Extension Ad-viser in Vietnam. After spending some months becoming familiar with the local situation, it seemed an ideal opportunity to put PRA method-ology into practise. This time he was train-ing the government staff responsible for implementing the program, and learning first hand just what was needed in this very different country and culture.

In Vietnam, forestry cannot be separated from other types of production. Plants from the forest provide food for pigs, cat-tle graze in the forest, certain tools are made from specific species of timber, and timber is needed for building. A complete farming system includes animal wastes fed to crops, and crop waste fed to animals.

The Vietnamese are very open to new methods. They are well motivated, intel-ligent and hard working, and results were achieved quickly. PRA is a particu-larly useful method for getting local peo-ple to articulate their circumstances, and then to analyse their situation. One exercise, called “Wealth Ranking”, results in a list of all the people in a vil-lage � their skills, the way they perceive their well being, such as health and eco-nomic factors � and ends up as a kind of map of the village. The map is then used to identify where community members need support. This is a useful baseline, making it possible to compare circum-stances over time. It can also be used to measure health and education, and in livestock and agricultural programs. Northern Vietnam, where Bardolf worked, is very mountainous with a complex landscape. There are microcli-mate differences, and the quality of soil and availability of water varies consid-erably. People have to adapt to the physical reality and to the hot and humid summers and cool winters. During Bardolf’s term, five provinces became closely involved with the PRA method. From just two or three projects in each province, there are now hun-dreds. Again, it was a matter of timing. The Vietnamese government was start-ing to introduce market principles into the economy, making the household the basic unit of economic development. Previously it had been a centrally planned Co-operative system with the farmers themselves having very little freedom or control. Under the old system, people did only what they were told, and production was low. But the Vietnamese are pragmatic. The system was not working, so it was scrapped. The government allocated land to each householder, and since farmers could now make a profit, they produced more, keeping the surplus to use for their fami-lies, or to sell. (The land was granted under a system of tenure that allows us-age for a certain time, depending on whether it is rice paddies or forestland etc. There is no private ownership of land in Vietnam.) Continued on page 11.

Bardolf with Vietnamese village children.

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We’re now in our fifth term and there’s a distinctly different atmosphere here to when we began. Rhythms and routines are being created, bonds between children, staff and parents deepen. The seeds of a culture perhaps. At the same time there is an ongoing sense of needing to be congruent and ‘walk our talk’. Are we doing what we set out to do? And if not, does that matter? Are we each getting what we need in our work and able to be our best with the children? This is a sometimes-painful process. We still find it hard to identify and com-municate what we are really doing at the school but when I describe it, I talk in terms of humans and humanity � to me there is a strong sense of this quality prac-tically throughout the school that is quite different to many mainstream and also alternative schools with a specific doc-trine. Being open and alive and ready to change, yet with a growing core of one’s own reality. Polly Skerratt, one of the trustees, who is also a schools inspector, says it takes five years to develop a school culture. Watch this space! The school continues to grow steadily, and there will be 57 varieties of children next term! The kindergarten is now full, with 18 children on any one morning, and three staff. Afternoon sessions are starting next term, as well as a parent and under-3 child group. Alison McDonagh, the kindergarten head, has created a warm and safe atmosphere and our kindergarten already has a good reputation locally. Almost all our enquiries are through recommendations. Financially, we are gradually becoming more viable. The Guerrand-Hermès Foun-dation for Peace continues to fund our shortfall. This arrangement ends, as planned, in the summer, however, and we hope to be able to just about stand on our own feet by the end of the year. Our vi-ability depends entirely on whether we continue to attract � and keep - new chil-dren in the main school, and that is un-knowable. Support GHF’s support has been extraordinary � strong and ongoing � and invaluable. They are now discussing with Felicia and Stephanie ways to support us in develop-ing and communicating our school ethos �

possibly through research and possibly through sharing our Emotional Intelli-gence work with other schools, and at con-ferences. Another key supporter whom we have not publicly thanked until now is Isabel O’Keeffe, who with her husband Paul Manweiler gave a large start up donation to buy the buildings and who has been our patient, kind and skilled chair of governors since before the school opened. The school’s stability owes much to Isa-bel. I am always in awe of the high level of commitment and talent among the school community � staff, parents and governors/trustees alike. Help Needed The second building is still semi-derelict although being rented to six artists as their studio. We are taking legal action against the insurance brokers who gave us bad advice leading to our underinsurance for flood damage. In the meantime we are looking for a me-dium-term private loan of around £30,000 for finishing the building, to be repaid through fundraising or with a commercial loan once we are in profit and can afford capital repayments. We hope to start work in the near future, as we will physically need that space later this year as we are starting to burst at the seams of building 1! Can any of you help?!

On that subject, we always need bursary funding, mainly for families who have fallen on hard times temporarily, but also an ongoing commitment, however small, is so gratefully helpful to those families, as we only offer bursaries when the money has been donated to us. It is very frustrating to me that we have to charge fees at all (government educational vision being so narrow), especially as al-most all families are stretching ourselves to the limit for our children to be here. At least if the British government ever did look into funding small schools � for which we are lobbying through Human Scale Education - we will I hope be a model of good practice. Richness We were given a schools energy grant of £4,000 recently for energy-saving insula-tion and lighting put in during the rebuild-ing work. Apparently we were the first school in East Sussex to qualify for this grant, so we have had a small flurry of local publicity for that. It has spurred us on to have an energy policy and we are cur-rently looking at getting Eco school status, since we are already quite green in what we source and recycle. As the school expands we are also deepen-ing the richness of what we can offer. This term we started the playground project, based on a plan by Vincent Mount with Continued on page 5

LEWES NEW SCHOOL

First day in the new sandpit.

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Continued from page 4 Bernard McDonagh, one of the guvs, coor-dinating work. This involved digging up some of the tar-mac and setting up raised beds made of railway sleepers. The older children have been designing and planting a wildlife garden and can be seen passionately ob-serving and discussing the growing plants in the break. Many of the plants are edible and herby, and are already attracting in-sects, for which all children have a peren-nial fascination. There’s also a giant sandpit, source of some great sand structures recently… We are getting a wildlife pond put in next term. This all funded by the annual Sum-mer and Winter fairs, and a donation of £1,000 from Lewis Roberts. This term has also seen a network of six computers set up for the children with online access, thanks to the last of the flood insurance money and Matthew Mills, the teacher of the oldest children. They have already been using the internet for some project work on small native ani-mals, and some of the children are discov-ering the internet to be a huge source of fascinating knowledge. Felicia is introducing a school-wide French teaching approach, I was amazed when my four year old son sang me a French song last month and with perfect accent recited his numbers up to 50. Mélinda Lassalle in Provence is linking up a little school near her with ours. Alongside all this, plans for school and curriculum development and enrichment are being forged in the background - it’s a difficult balance to have the necessary plans, routines and organisation without becoming an institution! At the end of this term Natalie Miller, a classroom assistant and the arts teacher, created a wonderful art exhibition with the children’s work. This included plaster casts of hands, feet and belly buttons of the younger children; life drawings, docu-mentation of a Cristo-style wrapping of local monuments with sheets dyed in tur-meric, and still life paintings. Her commit-ment and joy is infectious and the children adore Natalie. Adrienne Campbell, School administrator, For Felicia McGarry and the whole team Lewes New School, Talbot Terrace, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2DS, UK . Tel: 01273 477074. Fax 01273 483054. Email: office@lewesnewschool.co.uk

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In the evening, a Remembrance Celebra-tion is planned in the latihan hall at Wisma Subud. It is hoped we might each wish to give space within ourselves for remember-ing and feeling the reality of Bapak. In keeping with this feeling the evening of the 22nd will be so arranged as to allow all the Subud members present, equally, sim-ply and only as Bapak’s children, to gather and join together ‘around’ the reality of the commemoration and, hopefully, the felt-presence of Bapak. Excerpts from a few of Bapak’s videotaped talks may be a center-piece, and perhaps a videotaped segment of the singing of a part of Susila Budhi Dharma. This would be followed by Ba-pak’s own gambang music accompanying the cutting of traditional yellow rice moun-tains and sharing a meal together, − a meal hopefully prepared by all Subud members who may wish to participate and contrib-ute food and drinks.

COMMEMORATION and SELAMATAN at SUKA MULIA, the location of Bapak’s Grave, 23 June.

This gathering is hosted and arranged by Bapak’s family. Those of us who wish to pay our respects to Bapak − in a feeling of inner quiet, prayer and remembrance − at Bapak’s grave and the graves of Bapak’s immediate family, are welcome to visit and do so. This is the day, which com-memorates Bapak’s passing, 23rd June 1987. In the morning, prayers and a se-lamatan will be held.

EVENTS in RUNGAN SARI, Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan,

22 − 30 June.

Originally scheduled from June 22 − June 28, the Rungan Sari Gathering has now been extended to June 30. Development workshops and other major events on the program will now commence on the eve-ning of June 24. This will allow those members, who wish to participate in the

events in Java, to fly to Palangkaraya on the morning of June 24. However, for those who have already made plans to arrive at Rungan Sari in time for Bapak’s birthday on June 22, there will be a low-key program of celebrations and introduc-tory events on June 22, 23 and 24. (Ibu Rahayu and other members of Bapak’s family are planning to join the Rungan Sari gathering on June 24.)

The main focus of the Gathering is Devel-opment in Kalimantan. Following a full briefing on progress to date, there will be workshops on health, housing, education, social projects, agriculture, mineral explo-ration and enterprises. The program also includes: • Celebrations to mark the opening of the

Eco-Village, the Kalimantan Meeting Center, and the handover of the new wing of the Palangkaraya Hospital.

• Kejiwaan program with the interna-tional helpers.

• Entertainment and food at the Poolside Restaurant, Bridge Café, Eco-Village Restaurant and Plaza Coffee Bar.

• All three parts of the movie, “Bapak: The Man and His Mission”.

• Tours, photo exhibition, YES Quest movie etc.

Flights from Jakarta to Palangkaraya.

The Indonesian National Committee has reserved 100 seats for those who wish to fly to Palangkaraya on June 24 or 25. Please contact the Indonesian National Com-mittee, at the latest by June 14: Pak Rohadi, subudind@dnet.net.id For Rungan Sari Gather-ing Registration Forms, please email: Indonesian Visitors: Pak Rohadi, subudind@dnet.net.id International Visitors: rsp@rungansari.net Regis-tration forms, information

and news updates will be available on-line at: www.subudvoice.net For further enquiries, please contact: In Jakarta, Rashid Carré: rrcarre@cbn.net.id or rashidcarre@yahoo.com In Palangkaraya/Rungan Sari, Peter Jenkins: peterjenkins@rungansari.net

EVENTS and COMMEMORATIONS at WISMA SUBUD, CIPANAS, SUKA MULIA and RUNGAN SARI

Suka Mulia

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Beloved and respected brothers and sisters, I praise Almighty God that I still have this opportunity to visit you here in Vietnam, so that I can remind you or refresh you, by giving you explanations about this spiri-tual path.

Brothers and sisters, as you know Subud is not a religion and it is not a teaching, but when I, or when the helpers, give you ex-planations about the spiritual training of Subud, this is guidance to help you know to what extent, to know how far you have progressed on this path. I repeat, do not treat these explanations as teachings; they are clarifications to help you prepare yourself, through listening to them, through feeling them, to make pro-gress in your latihan. This is because Subud is a form of hakekat, which is an Islamic term and in everyday language we call this ‘reality’, or ‘receiving’. Why do we call this receiving or reality? Well, even though Bapak first received this spiritual training, because it is at the level of hakekat or reality, you could re-ceive it too, at your opening when the Power of Almighty God touched you. How could you receive this contact? Well, although you may be unaware of it, a part of God’s Power is present inside each one of us. So at the opening, when a person is in a state of surrender and acceptance and trust, a contact is made when the Power of Al-mighty God touches the power that you have inside you. This is possible because the Power of Al-mighty God encompasses all things and human beings are just one of the natures of God in which God’s Power manifests. Now as the natures in which God’s Power manifests come in every shape and form, this manifestation is not limited to human beings. There are even natures we cannot see. God manifests in these too, in animals, in plants, in matter - in all things. And when God’s Power touches a human being, it touches the human soul and the soul comes to life. We say it comes to life because as you do latihan, your soul grows. This is the growth of your true human self that will

progress in line with your own nature and your capacity to correct yourself and de-velop. The result is that anyone can achieve something that takes shape in this world that will later be the bridge to his or her life in the next world, another realm. A Preparation for Life So the latihan is not a way to prepare for death, it is a preparation for life. As such, Subud is not training just for old people, people at the end of their lives. Young people also need it, so that they have time to correct themselves and to bring a content to their lives that will be valuable to them. As such, this training has no limit, by which I mean there is no end to it. So don’t expect that, “Oh, in a few years time my latihan will be complete.” It won’t! Why does this training have no end? Well, in the process of training, we [our soul] must penetrate a series of walls. The penetration of the first wall begins when you are opened, and we have [our soul has] to penetrate into and feel every-thing that the physical body, this outer form, can receive.

This is why when you start this training; you make physical movements in your latihan. Even though these movements seem meaningless, they build a contact; they are a process of your inner-self getting to know this world. This is necessary because everything in this world is made of matter, and what we carry around with us - this physical body - is made of matter too. So a joining of the two occurs, so that you will be able to feel everything as you fol-low your latihan. Then as your latihan goes deeper, it will penetrate into your feelings. At this stage, in addition to experiencing physical move-ments, you will also feel your inner feel-ing. At that point it has gone deeper. Then as it progresses it will penetrate the third wall, that of understanding. Now this type of understanding is not the kind that can be understood or thought about with the mind. That’s not it! This is the under-standing that comes from the soul that comes with wisdom. Then you will be able to understand what you receive. When a person can under-stand their own receiving they will follow it, as they can understand the meaning of what they receive.

IBU RAHAYU’S FIRST TALK IN VIETNAM Ho Chi Minh City, 25 February, 2002. - Final Translation by Raymond Lee

Ibu Rahayu in Vietnam. (Photo courtesy of Mardijah Simpson)

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But if you do not understand yet, then even if you do receive something, it is as though it makes no sense. This means the inner-self cannot receive it yet. The fourth wall is consciousness, or awareness. If you have reached the level of consciousness it means that you can evalu-ate yourself. So, if you are aware that you should not do something, don’t repeat it, don’t do it again. When you possess consciousness, you will no longer doubt, “Is Subud right for me or not? Is Subud real or not?” because con-sciousness has entered your being. No one has to tell you to do latihan any-more; you do latihan because you are con-scious that the latihan is essential for you as a Subud member. Individuality And the last wall is your individuality. Why do we use the term individuality? It is because when you reach this stage you will on the whole believe in yourself, be-cause you can overcome your problems, the things that constantly disturb you, well…what we call the low forces that are always with you and always accompany your development. Because even after you complete all these penetrations, your life will still not be free of the disturbances and trials of life which stem from the low forces inside you. But once your true self is fully formed and is founded on your own individuality, this means that you have become a human be-ing, a complete human being, free of all the influences of the low forces that help you in your life. So if we remember all these processes, we realise that our work in this world is far from over. Furthermore you must put all of this into practice so that it will become real for you. So this training is the work you do, it is a teaching from within, meaning that it comes from God. It is as if your own self teaches you, edu-cates you, and carries you forward. And as for how far you have progressed, you will know that for yourself. No one else need know, and perhaps they cannot know and there is no need to show them, because this is a matter between you and God, the One who gave you this life. This is the reason why we say that the group latihan we do when we meet twice a week is not enough. It is not enough be-cause each latihan lasts just half an hour, so twice means one hour.

Yet you live life 24 hours a day, so if you do not bring a content to your outer life, your life outside the latihan, then when you face all the different developments in this world, you will often be swept away by outside influences. And this can make you lazy to do latihan; it can make you tend to ignore the call of your soul. To prevent this, the latihan is not meant to be confined to the latihan hall, the place where you do latihan; you must practice it in everyday life. For example, in the latihan you feel at peace and you do not think of anything - this means that nothing oppresses your soul - this is why, if you can, you must train yourself to act with the feeling of the latihan in your daily life. Of course the way you do this is different, it is not the same as when you do the group latihan and you make movements and talk to yourself. Don’t do that!

Instead, you make an intention to act guided by God. Well, in Islam we say, “In the name of God, Most Powerful, Most Merciful”, so that our actions will be guided by God.

You Will Not Feel Burdened With such an intention, you will not feel burdened by heavy feelings. If we are al-ways burdened by our work, by our prob-lems, we will not have the strength to go on. Then we will get sick from this or that, to the extent that nowadays people suffer from all kinds of illnesses that people rarely had before. The same goes for those of you who still act in a way that is not right or out of place. Make the effort and the intention to correct your own self. If you can put some-thing right, it is not for anyone else’s bene-fit, it is for your own. If you do not aid or help yourself, who is going to help you? And of course human life in this world covers every field of activity: family life, office life, interacting with friends, and so on. So, you need to make an intention for each activity, because once you make the intention, God will provide the way.

Take for example family life � create a feeling of peace in your family. Don’t fight all the time, with your husband or wife, with your children. In the workplace too, don’t hold bad feelings toward your colleagues, toward your boss and so on. Often this is what affects your spiritual progress, and then many members ques-tion, “I have done latihan for twenty years, for thirty years, but I don’t feel that

I am progressing?” Well, as I said earlier, your rate of progress is between you and God. This is not like other types of train-ing, such as martial arts, or other kinds of training where you can demonstrate amaz-ing feats to other people. However in Subud, if it is God’s Will, you can have experiences that cannot be at-tained with the mind, which cannot be understood with the mind. For example, in latihan you might meet your dead parents, or a child that died. All kinds of things can happen. Or for example you may hear, see, or feel something as if you have left this world � it is as if we get to know the state we will be in after we separate from everything in this world. All this can happen, but it will only hap-pen if God Wills. So if you receive some-thing like that, be grateful and don’t be afraid. Many members who have experiences are afraid and think that Subud is a black art that goes against God’s Will, that it is like magic. That’s not true! This is because from the very start we set all that aside, and we surrender everything to God. So, if something happens, don’t be afraid. If God gives you an experience, it is clear that God wants you to be a witness to God’s Grace, to God’s Power. This is be-cause many people in the modern world have forgotten how Great the Power of God is. So, if you have such an experience, you are just a witness that God can do anything to a human being that God Wills. Well, brothers and sisters, this is the end of the explanation about this spiritual path that I will give today, and I hope we still have time to add something more � to do latihan. And I apologise that the translation is less than satisfactory for you, as this is the first time we have translated from English to Vietnamese. As it happens, the translators are Vietnam-ese members who left Vietnam a long time ago and they have forgotten much of their native tongue. But even so, I hope that you could feel what I conveyed to you today. Thank you

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I strongly believe that, had Premier Hotels been the success all of us had hoped for, the result would have been serious con-flicts within our brother/sisterhood over the sharing of the jackpot between the founders and the ordinary shareholders. By "founders" or "promoters" I mean those who took the initiative to plan, organize and manage the whole thing. Some law-yers would have made good money from lawsuits amongst Subud members. Here is why: It all started for me at a Subud gathering near Lyon, France, many years ago. Two brothers from the UK made a very vivid presentation of the project, which appealed to me. I felt it had all the ingredients for success. I felt that at long last a Subud enterprise would break the tradition of failures: the market was promising, the strategy and business plan adequate, and I trusted 100% the promoters whom I had known for years. I am a rather suspicious person, both by nature and by profession (I am a retired accountant.). Yet I offered them a sizeable portion of my life savings without them even asking for it. In fact I felt they were doing me a favour by accepting my money...First prize in salesmanship. After having paid £14 Sterling for each of my shares, I received these shares by post and noticed that the nominal value was only 10 pence. Since business had hardly started at that time, I wondered what could well justify an added value of £13.90, called the promoters and was informed without further comments that such was the practice in the UK. Knowing that eve-rything seems to be always different in the UK, I left it at that for the moment. Until I received an invitation to the first General Meeting, which was about the allocation of stock-options to the founders. Stock-options meant they would pay 10 pence for what I and the other ordinary shareholders had paid £14 and later £20 or more. And I felt the quantity of such stock-options was very generous, not to say astronomical. But what is wrong with stock-options? They cost nothing to issue apart from pa-per and printing charges, and they make the beneficiaries very happy and moti-vated. Unfortunately it just happens that every new share issued reduces the value of all the other existing shares. In financial terminology this mathematical phenome-non is called "Capital dilution" In kitchen terminology it means that if one more per-

son sits around a cake, each slice will shrink. What would be the consequences of the discrepancy between £14 and 10 pence? In order to explain, I will have to be a bit technical, sorry. Let us assume for a moment that Premier would have been a success, and that Pre-mier shares would have entered the Stock Exchange as had been initially planned. Let us suppose now that the market value of these shares would be £14, which in my opinion is quite optimistic considering the large quantity of shares issued. What would be the financial repercussions? In such a scenario, the promoters would make a PROFIT of £13.90 per share, whilst ordinary shareholders would just GET THEIR MONEY BACK MINUS bank commissions, transfer and exchange charges, and this and that. Let us now suppose that share quotation would be only £7. The result would have been that the promoters would have made a PROFIT of £6.90 whilst the ordinary shareholders would have suffered a LOSS of £7 plus. How do you think the ordinary shareholders would have felt and reacted? I mailed Premier Hotels a registered letter asking for my money back, since I felt I had been mislead into buying these shares. The reply was an invitation to visit the Company in London. I went there with my son Stephen, who is a lawyer. We were well received, and I must admit favourably impressed by the apparent modesty of the promoters’ life styles: no flashy cars or offices or mini-skirted secre-taries. Two American bankers were there at the same time, apparently wishing to invest some US$200 millions into the business. Yet the explanations we received were only half-convincing, my heart said "trust them" and my mind said "sue them". Un-fortunately for me and for many brothers and sisters, the heart prevailed... There was yet another question on my mind, which I stupidly felt embarrassed to ask: how are the founders remunerated? I naively assumed that they were living off advances on future profits. It was much later, after the Bali congress, that I had the explanation to the question I failed to ask: the founders had in fact allo-cated themselves more than comfortable fixed salaries paid through a separate com-pany.

On top of this, as already mentioned, they received large quantities of stock-options. Such quantities were based on the number of rooms BUILT (some 2500). In my opinion they should have been based on the number of rooms SOLD and perhaps this is the main cause of the collapse of the enterprise. Does it take so much talent and efforts to build rooms with other people’s money? But to sell at a profit is the real challenge and the objective of any enterprise. So clearly the incentive was: build, build, build, until one day there was no money left. Note that I have nothing against stock-options per se, which is a usual business practice. But what I feel as unfair is the proportion of stock-option shares allocated to the founders as compared to the overall capital of the company. There are no fixed rules to define the right proportion, and in certain types of organi-zations which I would call "brain-intensive or high-tech", like software development, the proportion may even be higher. But Premier Hotels was clearly rather "capital-intensive or low-tech", requiring lots of money from ordinary shareholders to buy land, brick and mortar. Moreover, these remunerations were in-cluded in the "building costs", which is a break with the most basic accounting rules of transparency. Also, the structure had become so complicated with over 50 dif-ferent companies under the Premier Hotels umbrella, that it became practically impos-sible to consolidate them in order to have an overall view. So that the Premier Hotels ship became financially uncontrollable and lost direction, until it hit the rocks. How could the auditors give their blessings to such practices? Well, some auditors are no longer what they are supposed to be, as we can see with the collapse of huge organizations such as Enron, where world-renowned auditors Arthur Andersen went as far as destroying documents which could reveal their ineptitude and/or corruption. So that in the end we were all of us in the grounded ship. We all lost, including the founders whose stock-options were worth nothing. And nothing to fight about, only crying on each other’s shoulders. So that we had achieved a harmony of some sort...

Continued on page 9

PREMIER HOTELS - A BLESSING IN DISGUISE?

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Premier Hotels: Continued from page 8 I have not written the above story to criti-cise individuals, but rather as a sort of guidebook for future entrepreneurs about what NOT to do when starting an enter-prise. I still would like to add that, beside Pre-mier Hotels, I have lost money in the Bank, in Widjojo, in Anugraha and some other ventures I may have forgotten. Yet compared to the benefits I received from 40 years of Latihan, these financial sacri-fices were not so important after all. Rachiman Gintzburger, Thailand and Switzerland e-mail: rachman@loxinfo.co.th APT 6B, Garden Cliff Condo I 469 Soi Naklua 16 Cholburi 20150, Thailand Tel +66 38 225 559 Fax +66 38 367 153

COMMENT

Dear Harris, Thank you for emailing to me the article on Premier Hotels written by Rachiman Gintzburger. I agree with what Rachiman has written. It seems to me wholly consistent with the article 'Concerning Premier Hotels' that I wrote last August; this appeared in the September 2001 edition of Subud Voice. In that article I attempted to analyse the reason for Premier's failure. Rachiman has focussed on the unfairness that would have resulted if Premier had succeeded. I think we both agree that the corporate structure that was set up, and the huge benefits that would have accrued to a very few individuals, ensured that it had to fail. The only other comments I would make in relation to the future are that (a) no-one should invest more than he or she can af-ford to lose in a new enterprise, which inevitably is a high risk investment, and (b) those entrepreneurs who make use of the Subud connection to raise money for their enterprise should ensure that full and accurate financial information is made available to enable prospective investors to assess the risk. Robert Coker, UK Robert Coker was the Company Secretary of Premier Hotels. The :”founding directors” were also in-vited to comment on Rachiman Gintz-burger’s article but declined to do so.

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A project is being set up “slowly, slowly” to open a holiday retreat centre and rest home in Bucelas, Portugal. We would like to invite you to consider whether you are part of the team.

Bucelas is approximately 10 hectares of land owned by Subud Portugal about 20kms north of Lisbon. It has several buildings: the Albergaria (a large hall sur-rounded by ten bedrooms built around what was the shell of an Andalucian style house), the stone house (converted from an old water mill), a youth hostel with adjoin-ing bull ring, a latihan hall and three wooden chalets.

The Bucelas project began as a lively con-versation with Burhan Gebhardt in the Bualu Hotel swimming pool in Bali. It was shortly followed by a massive receiv-ing ten days after my return from Bali, basically telling me to open a holistic holi-day centre in Bucelas where people would find their purpose/talent.

Having up to that point always been jeal-ous of people with massive receivings to do interesting projects, I was at first de-lighted with mine, then worried, as I real-ised this did not mean fear would go away, almost the opposite…

I have since prepared my own life and af-fairs so I can fulfil the receiving and talked to many people about my idea.

I also decided it might be a good idea to actually set foot in the country I was sup-posed to create this project in, and so went twice to Bucelas, the first time with Arifah (ex. Alisa) and Burhan Gebhardt from Austria and the second with Sarah Ashby from the UK.

Both times, we felt the reality of the pro-ject on the one hand and an overwhelming awareness of the amount of work needed to achieve the vision. These recurring ex-periences have shown us that this project will need to develop at its own pace. We have also found that taking it all step by step helps to keep the panic and paralysis at bay.

It seems that the next step for me is to or-ganise a holiday/meeting for people who might be interested in working on the pro-ject. I therefore extend a cordial, if some-what short notice, invitation to all inter-ested in joining our team at this stage.

The Team

But first, let me introduce the current members of the team: Sarah Ashby is a retired management consultant who amazes me by her ability to create an at-mosphere where miracles are possible and where I can be at my best. She is also very keen on growing Bucelas (gardens and

possibly medicinal herbs), and has taken her huge personal step by moving to Buce-las in mid-April, two and a half weeks after her first trip there with me!

Francisca Pedroso from Portugal is a sen-ior civil servant, best known for having worked on a project to set up one-stop shops for public services throughout Por-tugal.

She and her colleague and Subud sister, Denise, are interested in starting a rest home project also in Bucelas, and have expertise in the workings of the Portu-guese Government.

I am a second generation Subud member and psychologist, currently working free-lance as a coach, facilitator and personal development specialist within organisa-tions and the public sector.

Support from Portugal

We also have the generous support of some of our brothers and sisters in Subud Portugal.

More specifically, we have received much help and encouragement from our friend Hamid da Silva (current zone 3 representa-tive) who can offer his expertise in busi-ness management and land development, and from Muchtar and Sofia Martins who know the land “by heart”, literally.

Muchtar and Sofia can offer their architec-tural expertise and continued support when we visit Bucelas.

Richard Rodgers, current National Chair of Subud Portugal, is supporting the pro-ject by ensuring Subud Portugal can dis-cuss the future of Bucelas at an upcoming extraordinary general meeting and so, hopefully, will enable the legal situations surrounding ownership and use of Bucelas to be cleared up.

Evolving Purpose

The purpose of the project itself continues to evolve, and my first vision has changed somewhat with each new person coming in the team. The general feeling is to set up a centre where people can experience heal-ing. This will take many shapes.

My personal interest lies in organising holiday retreats for people to review their relationship with their work and to look into the notion of purpose in life.

I would offer personal development to my clients and ensure that other levers for per-sonal growth would be available for my clients’ inner journey, from SIHA-type sessions (i.e. health and therapeutic ses-sions) to arts and music. I imagine that Bucelas will be made up of several such mini-projects that together will form a rich annual programme for the centre. Bucelas will therefore support a

range of activities for short-term visitors as well as be a live-in community and rest home.

In terms of infrastructure, our current vi-sion is to develop about a third of the land only, starting with the minimum amount of capital investment to start a viable busi-ness and continuing from there organi-cally.

We propose to build and renovate around a dozen chalets of various sizes and comfort levels, a swimming pool, a place for work-shops and a café/bar. We think we will want to develop the infrastructure along sustainable development principles, but we also want to make it a beautiful place, thus releasing the sleeping beauty of Bucelas.

If you already have had the pleasure of visiting Bucelas, I am sure you will agree with me that Bucelas is a very special place indeed (on the inside mostly, at the moment!). I feel at peace very soon after arriving there, with heart and mind strangely packed away in cotton wool.

I feel as if nothing at all is happening and I am just relaxing, until suddenly a whole issue might reach resolution like a dead leaf dropping from a tree. This quality is what needs to be shared with the world and why it is important to develop Buce-las’s potential, as and when it wants to be developed.

Meeting in Bucelas

If you are seriously considering joining us on this adventure, we would like to invite you to Bucelas from 14 to 23 June 2002, to experience the Bucelas effect, to meet with the team and to see if there will be any next step for you in this project.

We will cook for each other and take care of our living environment together, sharing the current accommodation in Bucelas (basic).

We hope to have at least one excursion to nearby Sintra, a wonderful wooded hill full of pretty villages, a Moorish castle, various monasteries and a palace. We also plan to celebrate Bapak’s birthday with the members of Subud Portugal, thus marking the birth of this new venture and acknowl-edging the amazing amount of love and work already invested in Bucelas.

The closest airport is Lisbon airport (Bucelas is 20km north of Lisbon). We have estimated the cost of accommodation and food to be £200 for ten days.

We can only afford to welcome a maxi-mum of a 12 to 15 people on this particu-lar trip, but there will probably be other opportunities in future. If you think you should be there, please contact me, Roselind Jelman either by phone on (44) 1273 477 342 or by email at roselindjelman@aol.com. Roselind Jelman, UK

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY OF BUCELAS

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Letters

Continued from page 3

Becoming an Academic

After five fulfilling years, Bardolf’s con-tract came to an end, and in 1995 a Swiss NGO, impressed by his achievements, persuaded him to manage a program of reform in Social Forestry undergraduate education. Bardolf, the man in the field, became Bardolf the academic: Chief Tech-nical Adviser at the Vietnam Forestry Uni-versity near Hanoi. The appointment proved to be an opportu-nity to influence a whole generation of students in the new development method-ologies, such as PRA. A new approach to curriculum development brought together a wide array of stakeholders - farmers, extension workers, researchers and others to ensure that what was being taught matched field reality. Students were now exposed to radically new teaching methods� teaching staff was weaned from the traditional lecture- based culture to interactive and experiential forms of facilitated learning. Field-based learning is a cornerstone of the new ap-proach. Bardolf involved the other four Universi-ties that provide degrees in Forestry, and in 1996 a National Workshop in Hanoi reviewed the results of a national survey they undertook. Teaching staff travelled to significant locations throughout Vietnam, to find out what support services the com-munities needed and what skills and knowledge field workers required. The result was Ministry approval for develop-ing a national curriculum in social for-estry. This is a very significant move, and could have a long-term impact on the re-form of the education system in general. The participatory approach to curriculum development is now being adopted in insti-tutions in various countries in South -East Asia. In November 1999, a workshop was held on agro-forestry curriculum develop-ment in Hanoi, with participants from Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. The feedback on the new approach was so enthusiastic that one of the sponsors, ICRAF (the Inter-national Centre for Research on Agrofor-estry) has begun spreading it to southern Africa. And so the work continues. Bardolf is coming to the end of his term, and won-ders where the journey will take him next. By Haryanti Stuart, Canberra, Australia Bardolf is currently on the board of SDI and is the SD liaison in Asia .

BARDOLF PAUL

Eric Bradford who reached the age of 100 years on February 4th died today, Tuesday March 26th at 11.40 A.M. When Maria Bradford was alive, and they had a house in Garstang, Bapak stayed at their house in the early days when the Northern Groups - Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield - were forming. Also Sjafruddin and Asikin were frequent visitors there, and in those days the latihan was held in their spacious house. He was a very lovely, a very loving, a very tender man with an impish sense of hu-mour. Everyone loved him, everyone who was close to him at all. God rest his soul. Tony Bright-Paul, UK

OBITUARY

A BOOK ABOUT SEX

Dear Harris,

I'm sending you a follow-up to the appeal I made in the last issue of the Voice. In the last issue of Subud Voice I appealed for articles about having sex outside mar-riage. I'm writing a book for non-Subud young people, and I'm looking for accounts of experiences/insights/understandings that would be useful to a young man/woman asking the question: Should I have sex with this person? My intention in this book is not to give advice, but to put forward ideas/ tell sto-ries intended to help this young man/woman come up with a more conscious answer to the question. Since this book is intended for non-Subud readers, the latihan should not be referred to, and references to God should probably be kept to a minimum. Responses to the appeal have been very encouraging. People generally think this book is a good idea, and tell me they fully intend to write something and send it to me.

However, I've only received ONE contri-bution so far, so I'm here to tell you that THE INTENTION TO DO SOMETHING IS NOT THE SAME AS ACTUALLY DOING IT. So, please, write something and send it to me . If you have an idea but aren't sure if it's what you think I'm looking for, email me a synopsis and I'll get back to you very promptly. If you're an older person and have memo-ries/experiences that you'd like to write about, DO IT. If you're a young person with more questions than answers, send me the questions. You can use a nom de plume. My email address: emmanuelwil-liams@pacbell.net Here's an interesting observation I found on a website: Celibacy is hereditary. If your parents didn't have sex, the chances are you won't have sex. Emmanuel Williams, USA

WHAT DO WE HOLD TO? Dear Editor, I believe I know why after two years I’m still inwardly held back from the idea of rejoining my local helpers’ dewan, or any other I can get to. I have freedom at present to follow the essential and timeless advice and guidance of Bapak as fully and honestly as I’m able to with no social pressure on me to behave otherwise. I want to live more from my inner and to develop it � not to be swept away by the most popular viewpoint. I invite my sisters and brothers to do so also by respecting the way that Bapak showed us, and by following that way. Have you noticed that there are a growing number of religious leaders who speak, write and even worship from their inner selves in a similar way to us? Of course they don’t have the latihan train-ing that we have, or Bapak. But these lead-ers do follow standards and their numbers appear to grow as ours do not. It makes me wonder if the Power of God is working around us and through other groups, perhaps more willing to follow a degree of excellence brought by different prophets and from scripture. I feel that each one of us received to fol-low the Subud worship because it was most appropriate for our particular souls. It’s precious, then, or so it feels to me, and irreplaceable. Aminah Schwartz, Santa Cruz, USA

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