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>   Particular emphasis should be given to teachers one can encounter
>   today.
    
    -The teacher is within you.
    
>   Carlos Castaneda certainly would not have achieved all he did without the
>   teachers Don Juan and don Genaro or their personal power.
    
    -Assuming that Carlos Castaneda is other than a highly imaginative novelist.
    
>   Note 191.2               SUFI, or not SUFI  (ugh!)  :^)   
>   It (Sufism) does NOT always involve a 'conventional'
>   disciple-guru relationship, but may encompass same at the proper
>   time. If someone benefits you, do you necessarily have to know his
>   name or sit at his feet for years?

    karl moeller sws tucson az    

    
    
    Many books, classes, tapes, etc. available today can provide the
    means of opening our minds to new possibilities, and this in turn
    will create an atmosphere where "teachers" can come into our lives.
    In many ways, our most important lessons are provided by people
    we would never label as "teachers".  
    
    Another idea that I hold strongly is that the teacher will appear
    when the student is ready.  A rule of thumb that I use is to ask
    God for guidance and to bring me together with someone who can 
    provide me with the experiences needed for my highest good.
    
    Carole

         
    I prefer to think of the people in my life who have filled the roles
    as 'teachers' and 'mentors' really were guides.
                                           
    I tend to learn more from them, not because they are consciously
    'teaching' me things, but rather for the way they live their lives
    and conduct themselves on a daily basis.  
    
    Learning by example, I find, is much more beneficial than to learn
    from a script.                          
    
    Cindy
    

                                              
    NOTE - I've been inspired by many people and their writings. As a
           result of this, I believe the people who wrote them have 
           become my own spiritual 'guides' or 'teachers', and it is 
           with this in mind that I enter this note and subsequent 
           other notes in this topic.

    By: Paul Tillich, 'The Shaking of the Fountains'
                           
    Do you know what it means to be struck by grace? ...We cannot transform
    our lives, unless we allow them to be transformed by that stroke
    of grace.  It happens; or it does not happen.  And certainly it
    does 'not' happen if we try to force it upon ourselves, just as
    it shall not happen so long as we think, in our self-complacency,
    that we have no need of it.  Grace strikes us when we are in great
    pain and restlessness.  It strikes us when we walk through the dark
    valley of a meaningless and empty life.  It strikes us when we feel
    that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated
    another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged.
    It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference,
    our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure
    have become intolerable to us.  It strikes us when, year after year,
    the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old
    compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair
    destroys all joy and courage.
    
    Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness,
    and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted.  You
    are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the
    name of which you do not know.  Do not ask for the name now; perhaps
    you will find it later.  Do not try to do anything now; perhaps
    later you will do much.  Do not seek for anything; do not perform
    anything; do not intend anything.  Simply accept the fact that you
    are accepted!"  If that happens to us, we experience grace.  After
    such an experience we may not be better than before, and we may
    not believe more than before.  But everything is transformed.  In
    that moment, grace conquers sin, and reconciliation bridges the
    gulf of estrangement.  And nothing is demanded of this experience,
    no religious or moral or intellectual presupposition, nothing but
    acceptance.....
    
    It is such moments that make us love our life, that make us accept
    ourselves, not in the goodness and self-complacency, but in our
    certainty of the eternal meaning of our life.  We cannot force
    ourselves to accept ourselves.  We cannot compel anyone to accept
    himself/herself.  But sometimes it happens that we receive the 
    power to say 'yes' to ourselves, the peace enters into us and makes 
    us whole, that self-hate and self-contempt disappear, and that our 
    self is reunited with itself.  Then we can say that grace has come 
    to us.
                                                                      
    [From 'Exploring The Road Less Traveled', pp.120-21 by Alice and 
    Walden Howard]  

                
    
    By: John Powell, S.J, "Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?"
    
    If you and I can honestly tell each other who we are, that is, what
    we think, judge, feel, value, love, honor and esteem, hate, fear,
    desire, hope for, believe in and are committed to, then and then
    only can each of us grow.  Then and then alone can each of us be
    what he really is, say what he really thinks, tell what he really
    feels, express what he really loves.  This is the real meaning of
    authenticity as a person, that my exterior truly reflects my interior.
    It means that I can be honest in the communication of my person
    to others.  And this I cannot do unless you help me.  Unless you
    help me, I cannot grow, or be happy, or really come alive.
    
    I have to be free and able to say my thoughts to you, to tell you
    about my judgments and values, to expose you to my fears and
    frustrations, to admit to you my failures and my shames, to share
    my triumphs, before I can really be sure what it is that I am and
    can become.  I must be able to tell you who I am before I can know
    who I am.  And I must know who I am before I can act truly, that
    is, in accordance with my true self.
                                                            
    
    By: Paul Tournier, "The Meaning Of Persons"
    
    "We become fully conscious only of what we are able to express to
    someone else.  We may already have had a certain intuition about
    it, but must remain vague so long as it is unformulated.
                                                               

I have been a student of Da Free John's for 5 years.  

Please see my note 298.4 where I discuss his autobiography _Knee of Listening_.

I am a student in the Laughing Man Institute which is the public institution 
for Master Da Free John (also known as Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda).  His
Teaching contains several arguments, the most central being the argument about
Narcissus, or the self-contracted self (ego), which is constantly searching
for happiness.  He says, "Ego is an activity, not an entity". Love-Ananda 
teaches that this search is obviated when self-understanding undermines 
the activity of Narcissus.  He constantly emphasizes self-understanding as the
key to self-transcendence.  For further information, I must urge anyone 
interested to read any of his 30+ books or obtain a copy of the Laughing Man 
magazine.  To me, he is an authentic Master in the great tradition of Krishna,
Buddha, Jesus (the big three in my opinion, the mention of whom will likely 
incite the most debate!), as well as Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, Shirdi Sai 
Baba, Nityananda, Upasani Baba, Narayan Maharaj, Ananda Mayi Ma, etc.  My
feeling is that these Enlightened beings have and do exist and we have much 
that we can and should learn from them.  My own feeling is that I wouldn't 
learn these things on my own for a long, long time by listening to my "own 
internal guide".  I'm talking lifetimes!

Thanks to .0 for the chance to embark on this note.  When I first checked
into this conference, for some reason I thought Spiritual Masters would
be discussed in the first few notes!!  But that's just my inclination, I
guess.

    
    All of these words are totally useless. Philosophy and language
    bake no bread. All you need to know, you know already. A teacher
    is not a teacher, as St. Augustine shows in DE MAGISTRE. A teacher
    merely brings one to a certain point in life, a point where the
    body-mind shines like a mirror or a still pond. There is no other
    way. Funny thing this topic: you don't really need a teacher but
    you do. Weird.....and why? A big mystery, both philosophically (i.e.
    metaphysically and epistemologically) and spiritually, which can
    only be penetrated by looking.
    				Regards,
    						John N.

    Re: .9
    
    I think you may be a little hard on those who would seek a teacher.
    A child does have it within him/her to learn to walk, and can do
    so even if the parents never lift a hand to help him/her on his/her
    first explorations.  Would the child be able to activate the ability
    to walk if (s)he never saw the example of an adult walking??  Good 
    question, and my own hunch is Maybe, And If So, With Extreme
    Difficulty.
    
    It feels to me that people who actively seek teachers may fall
    into two camps:  those who have never "seen anyone walk" and so don't
    know the spiritual growth they are capable of, and those who simply
    wish to be "companioned" in their efforts to learn (my own term).  
    Neither group is to be castigated for their desire.  A person who 
    has never seem someone "walk" has a genuine need.  And a person 
    who simply wishes to be companioned in learning in the special way
    a beloved teacher provides--certainly the child learning to walk 
    must feel joy as (s)he feels the loving support from the parents 
    encouraging him/her (but not controlling!) on the learning venture.
    After then suffering through a lifetime (after that) of having 
    others not encourage one's own inner ability, other tell one "no,
    that's not right, do it this way", who wouldn't want (and perhaps 
    need) to have that initial experience recreated, in order that they 
    can learn to trust their own potential for growth again?  This need
    seems at least as genuine as the first.
    
    Marcia
    

    re: Marcia
       I agree with you.  Most of us who have been "taught" already
    are very tempted to parrot what we have learned i.e., that we already
    "know" everything we need to.  What has become clear to me is that
    what Lazaris says is true: that what we are doing is remembering
    our future.  So we've created these massively complex "games"
    as part of the "fun" of being.  These games involve creating
    teachers and learning situations that give us pleasure in their
    unfoldenments (is that a word?)  It is interesting to me to note
    that there really is no disagreement among these respondants even
    though at first glance there appears to be...it is simply where
    an individual may be "standing" along what could be called a continuum
    and what he/she sees from that space.  I direct you to 358.xy (wherever
    it is that I mention Lazaris talking about a continuum of health.)
    You will notice that we can accept "teachers" (healers) of varying
    value up to the point of being self-"taught" (spontaneous healing.)
    It fits, no?
    
    Frederick
    

    
	It depends upon where you are upon the path.  Somewhere along
    	the path a teacher is desired to allow for spiritual evolution
    	and hopefully this analogy is understood - the teacher is
    	the perfect mirror (provides an absolute reflection) to allow
    	us to see the many aspects of our self.
                        
	A teacher in mysticism/spiritualism is more than just one who 
    	imparts the knowledge they have gained through experience
    	and understanding.  A spiritual teacher (one who has reached
    	the level of 'true sight') loves beyond imagination and guides 
    	the whole student with their higher knowledge toward the student's
    	personal understanding and insight.
                    
    	A teacher at this level does not teach by dictating 'great
    	words of wisdom'.  A teacher at this level teaches through 
    	the relationship - it is an active participation which runs 
    	the gamut from creating circumstances to answering questions 
    	to the excruciating self-examinations into even the smallest 
	particle of information.
                  
	Don't expect (limit) your teacher to be wearing white robes 
    	or to be surrounded by burning inscense (tho' there are teachers 
    	who do appear as such).  Your spiritual guide/teacher could be 
    	the nice lady down the street with three children or the friendly 
    	copier repairman - their true 'nature' unbeknownst to most.  
    
	And personally speaking, seek a teacher who loves.  For the
    	teacher does not teach without self-interest.  Somewhere along
    	the path, one chooses to teach to continue self-growth and
    	evolution.  Because one is a teacher does not mean that
    	they are not still aspiring and learning (that would be death!).  
    	The teacher/student relationship is a relationship that will 
    	hopefully take both involved to a higher level of understanding.

    	(gosh, a bit winded....please excuse)  Oh yes, being a student
    	involves quite a lot of humbleness.  Humbleness (not humility) 
    	- a quality of knowing that there is a lot more going on than we 
    	are conscious of.
            	
	Love this notesfile...thanks!

         I brought up the name of someone named RAMA in the reincarnation
    note several months ago.  Also, I added my own judgements about
    him at that time.  That was probably not "fair" of me, then.  For
    it is entirely possible that what I dislike about him is simply
    my bias and not "truth."  I thought about starting a separate topic
    for him and decided to insert him here, instead.  This is prompted
    by a recent tv show about him (AM San Francisco) and my finding
    (yesterday) and old advertisement.
         The following comes from a full page ad on the inside of the
    front cover of NEWAGE magazine from March, 1982:
     
         JOURNEY THROUGH THE VOID--with Atmananda-Dr. Frederick Lenz
     
    Travel to and beyond the known horizons of your mind and experience
    Self Discovery through the personal, spiritual teachings of Atmananda-
    Dr. Frederick Lenz.
      
    During meditation, he enters into Samadhi and directly channels
    Peace, Light, Power and Ecstasy to you.  This experience adds to
    your well being and increases your spiritual awareness.  You will
    then be able to enter into the supraconscious states on your own
    more easily.
      
    Be prepared to experience an incredible evening and even more
    extraordinary tomorrows by attending the following workshops:
      [I leave them out because they occured 6 years ago.]
           [further information on the page:]
    
    Objectives:
    * To find my students from past lives and finish their Liberation.
    * To meet new persons who are interested in studying the meditative
      arts that lead to illumination and Self Realization.
    
    Experience:
    1531-1575 * Zen Master, Kyoto, Japan
    1602-1671 * Head of Zen Order, Kyoto, Japan
    1725-1804 * Master of Monastery, Tibet
    1834-1905 * Jnana Yoga Master, India
    1912-1945 * Tibetan Lama, Head of Monastic Order, Tibet
    1950-       Self Realized Spiritual Teacher, Director of Spiritual
                Communities in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco
    
    Education:
       1973 * B.A. with High Honors, University of Connecticut
       1974 * M.A., State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook
       1978 * Ph. D., State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook
              Member of Phi Beta Kappa
    
    Publications:
        1979 * Lifetimes:True Accounts of Reincarnation.
        1980 * Total Relaxation
        1981 * Meditation:The Bridge is Flowing but the River is Not.
     
    Lectures:
        Over 200 lectures around the world including:
    Harvard*Heidleberg*United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland*Universities
    of:  Connecticut, Colorado, California, Illinois, New York, Vermont,
    New Hampshire, Oregon
    
    Media:
        Over 400 appearances on TV and radio including: The Phil Donohue
    Show, The Toni Tennille Show, Good Morning Washington, Chicago Today,
    AM San Francisco, Mid-Morning Los Angeles, Washington Post, San
    Francisco Examiner.
       
     * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
                      [end of ad]
     
        There was also an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about
    2-3 months ago about him.  From there and the AM San Francisco show
    I gathered the following: (personal opinions may be included)
     
         Somewhere along the line he changed his name to RAMA because
    it has more impact.  His degrees are all in English or Literature.
    He is not a disciple of any of the established philosophies (e.g.
    Buddhism, Hindi, etc.) nor is he recognized by any of those established
    groups.  
         There has recently been a great deal of anger generated towards
    him by former followers.  They say he is a fraud.  On the tv show,
    there was a woman who claimed that RAMA invited her to his home
    under dubious pretenses and once inside was mentally harassed
    (by his locking the doors, not allowing her to leave, pulling out
    a pistol and laying it next to him, etc.) and then "raped."
    Her humiliation was such that she was afraid to tell anyone for
    many, many months.  
         Interestingly, in the tv audience was the woman's (less
    physically attractive, in my view) married sister who claimed
    that RAMA had, indeed, helped *her*.  There were charges and
    counter-claims from another male follower of RAMA who was there
    on his own accord.  RAMA was unavailable to their repeated inquiries
    and would not answer the allegations (apparently.)
      
         * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
        
         I find it interesting that the man had no "other incarnations"
    than the noble ones he mentioned (no gardeners, slaves, pirates,
    etc., etc.)  I feel that he is highly *unrealized* due to his
    methods for self-promotion and I think it is a shame that he 
    appears to continue in a similar vein even today.  While his 
    meditation techniques may have value, I would recommend that anyone
    interested in meditation find other sources.
     
     
    Frederick
    
    
          

    
    
         In keeping with the spirit of this note and, in keeping to
    my sense of "relative importance," I am going to add here another
    "teacher" of *enlightenment* with whom I am somewhat familiar.
         My first real dive into the full-blown human potential
    movement (as a formal "experience") was spending a weekend with
    Ken Keyes (pronounced "Kize".)  Many of you are familiar with him
    or his books.  He is a paraplegic (with difficulties in using his
    hands--due to young adult polio) who got around in an electric
    wheelchair.  He also had an extensive staff and founded *Cornucopia*
    in Kentucky.  I understand that that center closed and that for
    a while he set up in Santa Cruz, CA. or possibly in some other
    part of Ca. or the Northwest.  His center prior to Ky. was in
    Berkeley, CA.  He also explained having been a millionaire a couple
    of times and losing it a couple of times.  He further mentioned
    early difficulties in understanding the concepts of love.  There are
    probably gaps in my memory/knowledge here but I do know that he
    searched for quite a while before writing his first book.
         My experience of the books I read (especially the "Handbook
    to Higher Consciousness") is that there is a good deal of what
    I consider basic concept.  That is, yes, it can be of value.
    What I remember about them is that they seem too rigid to me.
    And by that I mean that he insists on learning his steps as 
    he lists them---word for word.
         In fact, this was a requirement before attending the workshop.
    The workshop consisted of his talking and telling stories,
    explaining his concepts, singing songs (of the holding-hands-together
    variety) and being expected to conform to what I considered very
    stiff rules in terms of punctuality, meals, etc.  I missed a meal
    by two minutes and was told that I could go to his bus and get
    an orange to eat, instead (which I did.)  We were at a location
    known as "Getting in Touch" which had a wonderful 10 ft. dia. hot tub just
    outside our meeting area but were not allowed to use it until the
    conclusion of the weekend.  What I remember (and this was in 1981)
    was that there were a few disagreements with "logical" people in
    the group and that three people didn't show up on Sunday (out of 100 or so.)
    But what really struck me was how bland the whole weekend was for
    me.  I had had a great deal of anticipation prior to that weekend
    and high recommendations from a person who rated Ken along with
    Muktananda as their choice for spiritual awakening/inspiration. 
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
            The following contains some information that may offend
          some of you.  Do not read it if you are sensitive to sexual
                      matters.
    
    
    
         
         As a footnote to my awareness of Ken Keyes, perhaps this is
    not worth mentioning, and maybe it is.  Someone who came along in
    my life a year or so later had worked with Ken Keyes very intensely
    up in Berkeley.  He had had some of the most powerful experiences
    of his life doing some of the Ken Keyes processes.  Among them was
    the experience of losing several hours out of one day in a kind
    of "time warp."  For him, to that point, Ken Keyes was a great 
    contributor to self-understanding, etc.  My friend mentioned once
    that one of the processes Ken used (please understand the context
    of the era/events and the probable intent) was to have everyone
    in the group (a small group of men and women) sit in a circle
    nude and simultaneously masturbate in front of the others.  I do not
    know if this was true...it certainly adds color to the concepts
    explored if it is.  And if it is, then I can only guess that the purpose for
    it was for some very deep, intimate trust/release.  It may have only been an
    experiment and it may have only happened that one time, if at all. It
    may also have been something "available" only to "advanced studies."
    In any case, there was never any sign of this type of activity in
    the group I participated with nor have I ever heard anyone else
    report this in any other Ken Keyes group or group-setting.
    (Stan Dale, on the other hand...)
                                                                        
        My summary opinion of Ken Keyes?  That the books probably provide
    some gem of wisdom/understanding.  The workshop was okay, if you
    want to spend a weekend holding hands with many others and generally
    feeling good.  Keep in mind that this is based on events which 
    occurred 7 years ago and may be totally removed from any ongoing
    events.
    
    
    Frederick
    

RE: .13 (Frederick)

I got a real chuckle out of that one, especially the section marked
"Experience."  I think my next resume will read:

1685-1750  Successful composer under the name of J.S. Bach

1750-1790  Instrumental in the formation of a new country.  Signed Declaration
           of Independence.

1790-1883  Dali Lama, Tibet

1883-1954  Mother Superior, Urusuline Order, Our Lady of Highway 8


BTW, I notice the good master did not list what any of his degrees are IN.

John M.
                                                        

    Gee, wasn't there a StarTrek episode involving a character like
    that?
    

    	No, the episode was entitled "Requiem for Methuselah", and Flint
    was originally a Sumerian soldier who discovered he was immortal
    when he was speared in the heart during battle and did not die (His
    body tissues instantly regenerated).
    
    	Larry
     

    
    The reply about Da Free John caught my attention just now. I've
    known about Da Free John for ten or twelve years and have read all of
    his books, even went to a couple of meetings. I never became a student
    of his, but it seems I've done everything in the same line -- was
    a disciple of Muktananda's heir, Swami Chidvilasanda, have sat with
    Rudi's offshoots -- Chetananda, Stuart Perrin, and some others. And
    have been in Subud.
    
    For anyone who speculates about whether you need a teacher or 
    can be your own teacher, or can learn from anyone and everything,
    I can testify, as the Da Free John student can, that there are 
    people on Earth who are vessels of the spiritual power that we're
    all literally starving to death for lack of, and that if you sit for 
    a while in the presence of one the rare people whom that power comes 
    through, there just isn't any argument about whether you need a 
    teacher or not. That fact is, what receptive people feel in that kind
    of a presence is something that feels mysterously natural and familiar
    but that they've forgotten long ago somehow, and couldn't hope to
    find on their own because they're searching where it isn't  -- in the
    mind, in their own ideas about what is and should be. 
    
    This sense of presence projected by very high people is very palpaple.
    I've seen people bring their relatives up to meet Swami Chidvilasanda
    , and you can read the faces of theses people "This is rubbish. What's
    all this Indian stuff. Who's this Swami joker?..." Then when they
    get very close, you can see their minds go blank under the influence
    of that power. It's something beyond the mind.
    
    Fred
    
    
    
    
    

Subud:

Subud is something simple, something natural in that its process takes place 
in anyone who wants it, at his own pace, according to his nature. It is the 
renewal of contact with the essential force of life, which is positive and
constant, but with which we have lost touch.

We seek what we think will make us happy, but we are endlessly mistaken in 
our actions and thoughts. Only sometimes, when we are very quiet, or in some
unusual state, we can be suddenly, brilliantly aware of this other life going 
on. The process of Subud keeps this special awareness alive and active.

Subud was founded by an Indonesian, Muhammad Subuh Sumohadjiwidjojo. He is 
usually referred to by Subud members as "Bapak", which is an Indonesian word
for a respected older man. The experience, the spiritual exercise, which we
call the "Latihan", came to him as a revelation, suddenly. He was able to
share it, pass it on to others, and is now known in more than seventy countries
and practiced by thousands of people. To practice the Latihan is to stand 
relaxed in a group of people, men and women separately, and allow the process
to take place. Many people feel a vibration, most soon feel an impulse to move,
to utter sounds, or to sing. The impulse is spontaneous, not suggested or 
controlled by thought, but during this time, a member is fully alert, with
mind and desires passive and reacts according to his needs at the time. 
The Latihan continues for about thirty minutes and is repeat several times
per week. The experience varies, indeed it is different for each person. For
some the development is gradual and changes are noticed in the outer life 
before there is much movement in the actual Latihan.

The process is one of cleansing, purification, which reaches more and more
deeply into every part of one's being.

It is necessary to be a member before one may attend a Latihan and for most
people a waiting period of three months is asked before joining. This gives
opportunities to meet people experienced in the Latihan and to learn from
something of what may be expected and to draw near with respect to a movement
which is likely to change one's whole life. The moment of actually joining
Subud is when for the first time a person stands with other members who 
are doing the Latihan and receives the contact. This is experienced by some
immediately, by others after a while, as a quickening of their inmost being.

Often in life we do not know (as we say) "which way to turn", we do not 
know what is right. In Subud, we learn to trust, to receive guidance through
the Latihan. The effect for most shows in a greater understanding of oneself
and happier personal relationships; often something newly positive in work
experience. Improved health is often a by-product of the Latihan, 
discrimination about food and drink and in habits of living. There is 
guidance to find one's right work in life, and so to use one's talents
to the best advantage.

For some there is considerable pain. The process of purification brings out
problems, reminds forcibly, agonisingly, of past mistakes. Many things have to
be faced and in a way relived before they can be left behind.

The Subud organization is world-wide. There are national and international
officers and committees, and there are local groups where people meet to 
exercise. The association has been established in the West for over
thirty-five years and is working to help in the world. Subud members have
set up enterprises, the ultimate aim of which is to support the welfare
projects of Subud, especially for children, refugees, and old people. Much
of this activity is in the third world.

Religious terminology is often used: Almighty  God, submission to the 
will of God. Bapak used this language. In all religions we have words which
have evolved through human attempts to identify and describe another
dimension of life; prayer, surrender, and submission to a power greater than
we can imagine and yet of which we are a part.

Subud is a process, a receiving, not a teaching. There is no teaching or 
theories in Subud. Nobody is expected to believe anything, only to recognize 
and trust what he himself experiences. People of different religions find 
their faith deepened and practice the Latihan in complete harmony with each 
other and with those who have no religion.

Susila, Budhi, and Dharma are the three Sanskrit words from which the name
Subud is derived:

Susila -- means to be able to live as true human beings -- according to the
          will of God.

Budhi -- refers to the divine power which work within man as well as around
         him in the world.

Dharma - means the possibility to surrender completely to the will of God.

Susila, Budhi, and Dharma means to follow the will of God, or the power of
the life force that works both within us and without.

Gradually for most people, quite quickly for others, it becomes possible 
to recognize a little of the immensity of which we are a part and to 
live in some extent in harmony with it and with other people. This is 
what Subud is about.