May 2011 - Subud Voice

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So I travelled all day, trying to go south. It got to be six o’clock in the evening. I finally got to the end of Jakarta and asked someone ‘Where is Cilandak?’ she told me it was at the wrong end of the south. I had to go to the west side! The next day I started from there. Again all day I travelled. At last I arrived at Cilandak and then I saw a military camp. I went to the guards and asked, ‘is this Cilandak? Is this the Subud World Congress?’ They answered ‘yes, this is Cilandak, but the Subud World Congress is really far away!’ So I went back again. On the Third Day On the third day I arrived at Wisma Subud. The little guard post was there, where the guards were sitting. I said ‘I should like to have information about Subud.’ They said ‘there are 2000 people here! We are too busy for a man coming to ask for information!’ Then I really became angry, after three days of searching! I said ‘I’ve come all the way from New Guinea!’ It made a little bit of an impression. Someone went away and when he came back he said ‘come back tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock and there will be someone here then, who will give you information about Subud.’ ‘ Wilbert Verheyen ’ So the next morning I was met by a young man. I got the impression he was studying economics at the University of Bandung. He asked me where I heard about Subud. I felt a little awkward having to tell him it was only out of the newspaper. He said at once that Subud is very good for a type of person who is making certain kinds of mistakes. This and this and this… He mentioned five things that were like my moral fingerprints! I asked him when I could start. He told me that at a Protestant secondary school not far from my convent they had a Monday and Thursday latihan and also that I was welcome there at Wisma Subud on Sunday mornings as an applicant. So I immediately went as an applicant to the next meeting on Monday… it was very interesting. You got special cake and nice ginger tea… The waiting room for applicants was at the end of the corridor. There was a staircase I could see, from where I was sitting and waiting. I saw a very old lady being taken upstairs by a Japanese woman and for some reason I began to cry. It was such a heavy crying that my shirt became wet. So I finally asked someone ‘who is that old lady going up the stairs?’ and he said ‘that is Bapak’s mother.’ Wilbert found out about Subud just as the 1971 World Congress was being held in Jakarta. The Wisma Subud residential compound had been transformed to provide accommodation for 2000 people in bamboo longhouses designed by the architect Ramzi Winkler I think Bapak’s mother died in 1971 or so. I think it was after my opening. There was a big reception after the funeral for us to tell Bapak we were sorry about the death of his mother. Patricia: You hadn’t met Bapak yet? Wilbert: I think that was the time when I felt I hated Bapak! That’s another story. It was very interesting though. When we came to the reception in front of Bapak's house, there was a big queue SUBUD VOICE PAGE 14 MAY 2011
of people. It was my first contact with western Subud members and the Indonesian ones were so close to Bapak. While we were in the queue waiting to tell Bapak we were sorry, I suddenly realised I wasn’t sorry at all, I was sad but not grieving at all! I felt so happy! So I thought, “What can I say, for I will not lie?” Then it was my turn and I was in front of Bapak. Bapak had a big smile. I was almost congratulating Bapak. He was standing there beaming, as if he knew his mother was still living quite happily. After Bapak went upstairs, I began weeping again – not just a few tears but a huge weeping so that my shirt was wet again. I went to Rukmiwati Branting, a woman who lived in Wisma Subud, and asked what could this weeping be? Rukmiwati felt I was moved not by the mother but by the son.! I came first to Subud during the World Congress in August, and I was opened in November. Taken from Patricia Lacey’s book Conversations with Friends Part 2. The book is currently out of print. LETTERS TO THE E D I T O R ✒ ◆ She likes it! Lynnelle Stewart writes from the USA... Thank you very much for the Subud Voice, which I read without stopping. It is great! And I particularly identified with something in the story about Simon Guerrand... how he went through a period after his accident when the world just seemed incredibly beautiful to him...and that is how it is for me now... No accident, but the world just suddenly seems sooooo beautiful. I had an inner message a couple months back that I was "to go out and look at my beautiful world”and since then, every little detail seems so lovely. Thanks for the info on how to sign up for current talks... contacting Julia Hurd...the new Voice is gonna be great. I was especially moved by the story on Rashidah's daughter and the story on the young girl who is now the BCU school librarian and wants to be a Subud applicant. FANTASTIC!!!! Keep up the great work, as you always do... You really amaze me! I felt SOOOOO reconnected after reading Voice and the latest Susila Dharma newsletter, focusing on how Susila Dharma is working to meet the UN Millenium Goals – what a great idea on their part! The work of the helpers Rauni Hemsen responds to Rachmadi Fiedorowicz's article in our March issue about the role of helpers... Dear Rachmadi Fiedorowicz Times change. Most of us are really very old members. But instead of two latihan times we have now 5 times in order to meet the needs of the new generation, new members. The most popular times are 11.30 on Wednesdays and Sundays. The old time is mostly visited by the old members 20.15 on Tuesdays and Fridays. In addition there is one latihan on Fridays 19.00 for young people, new members. So all this takes time. It was very difficult to reserve one more night as helpers night. So the miracle solution is to have helpers latihan either before or after the group latihan. It is a very different latihan indeed, and we feel much more guidance in the group latihan because of the helpers latihan. And the members feel and come to the latihans! We feel we have little to talk about. So the extra travel, a whole evening is not necessary but we feel the difference doing the helpers latihan. It certainly has a very different quality from the ordinary latihan. It is a heavy task to open new members but it is also rewarding. Being a helper without having helpers latihan is very heavy. It is fantastic to feel guidance in the latihan with the group when we helpers are guided by God. ◆ SUBUD VOICE PAGE 15 MAY 2011 ◆
Page 1 and 2: ® In this issue Five Finger Exerci
Page 3 and 4: At the time of the meeting, we will
Page 5 and 6: I feel almost guilty From Edward Wr
Page 7 and 8: together discussing things and maki
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Page 11 and 12: FAVOURITE PHOTOS Brighton Beach Ros
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Page 17 and 18: that time it was still very remote
Page 19 and 20: New WSA accountant and bank account
Page 21 and 22: Youth update on two events Hello ag
Page 23 and 24: Changes at Subud Voice Harris Smart
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