SUBUD is a path of surrender to the power of Almighty God as manifested through a unique spiritual experience known as the Latihan.
Anyone can join, without abandoning their religion or assuming a new one.

SUBUD Is an acronym formed from three Sanskrit words, Susila, Budhi and Dharma. Briefly, it can be understood to mean "the possibility for human beings to follow the right way of living".

Subud is a spiritual movement which had its origins in Indonesia in the 1920s and spread to the west in 1957. Subud members practise a form of worship known as the latihan.
Subud is not a religion or sect of any religion, nor is it a teaching.
What many Subud members report is that gradually over time, the latihan enables them to contact their real inner self, so that they become more truly who they were destined to be. They become more 'alive'.
The latihan is a pragmatic experience which can be approached in the spirit of a scientific experiment. It can bring you proof of the reality of the spiritual life. It is a new way suited to this scientific and intellectual age, when people will only believe what they have really experienced for themselves.
It comes at a moment of peril for humanity, when it seems the power of the technologies we have created has outstripped our capacity to control them. The latihan restores the balance between the spiritual and material. It provides a way of uniting the spiritual with everyday life, a path that is open to people of all religions, races and nationalities.