Subud is not a teaching, but it is a great learning.
Go ahead and be responsible in the world, but feel in yourself first what you are able to do.
Laugh more: it brings more oxygen to the brain and lightens the load there.
We Subud members should try to be courteous to everyone, all the time, for that is a sign of true, inner human culture.
All of us who have been assigned to perform a task have responsibilities, but none of us has authority.
The Subud organisation is not a power structure but a service.
That is the greatest challenge Bapak placed before us: how to carry our responsibility without authority.
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Life is never about either/or but about and/and.
The poor are the experts on poverty.
People’s perceptions of the world are usually determined by what they seek to protect.
And language is frequently a means not of revealing but of masking our thoughts and distorting the inconvenient opinions of others.
Never grovel because people are famous or powerful.
Read tyrants as though you were a detective, and learn to say no.
It’s not global warming that will destroy us, it’s gullibility.
I was all the right things - a majority man, a Singhalese, a Buddhist, the right caste, oh everything.
But defending the minority rights was not on.
(After being forced into exile in 1961.)
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Textual VARINDRA PDF ＜－－ please see link.
from the page 248-249.
PS
Character size you can be changed in the top right corner of the page.
List of articles＜－－Link
Go ahead and be responsible in the world, but feel in yourself first what you are able to do.
Laugh more: it brings more oxygen to the brain and lightens the load there.
We Subud members should try to be courteous to everyone, all the time, for that is a sign of true, inner human culture.
All of us who have been assigned to perform a task have responsibilities, but none of us has authority.
The Subud organisation is not a power structure but a service.
That is the greatest challenge Bapak placed before us: how to carry our responsibility without authority.
ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー
Life is never about either/or but about and/and.
The poor are the experts on poverty.
People’s perceptions of the world are usually determined by what they seek to protect.
And language is frequently a means not of revealing but of masking our thoughts and distorting the inconvenient opinions of others.
Never grovel because people are famous or powerful.
Read tyrants as though you were a detective, and learn to say no.
It’s not global warming that will destroy us, it’s gullibility.
I was all the right things - a majority man, a Singhalese, a Buddhist, the right caste, oh everything.
But defending the minority rights was not on.
(After being forced into exile in 1961.)
ＰＳ
Textual VARINDRA PDF ＜－－ please see link.
from the page 248-249.
PS
Character size you can be changed in the top right corner of the page.
List of articles＜－－Link