Reshad Feild Don’t Cry because it’s over Smile because I happened April 15th 1934 – May 31st 2016
Dr Seuss Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
Rumi
Come, Come, Whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
Rumi.
Come, Come, Whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
Rumi.
Because I love you Leaves About To Let Go.
There is an invisible way across the sky, This world of two gardens, both so beautiful. Birds travel by that way, the sun and moon This world, a street where a funeral is passing. And all the stars travel that path by night. Let us ride together and leave this world. Because I love as water goes bowing together down itself to the sea.
There is a river flowing all night long. From gardens to the gardener from grieving to a wedding feast. Because I love We tremble like leaves about to let go. All night the river flows into my sleep, There is no avoiding pain, Ten thousand things are sleeping in my arms, or feeling exiled, or the taste of dust. And sleeping wake, and flowing are at rest. But also we have a green-winged longing for the sweetness of the friend. Kathleen Raine.
Let us begin the journey home, with love and compassion for guides, From the opening page of “To Know We’re Loved – The Invisible Way’ and grace protecting.
Let your soul turn into an empty mirror that passionately wants to reflect Joseph. Hand him your present.
Now let silence speak. As that begins, we will start out.
Rumi translated by Coleman Barks.
Because I love you Leaves About To Let Go.
There is an invisible way across the sky, This world of two gardens, both so beautiful. Birds travel by that way, the sun and moon This world, a street where a funeral is passing. And all the stars travel that path by night. Let us ride together and leave this world. Because I love as water goes bowing together down itself to the sea.
There is a river flowing all night long. From gardens to the gardener from grieving to a wedding feast. Because I love We tremble like leaves about to let go. All night the river flows into my sleep, There is no avoiding pain, Ten thousand things are sleeping in my arms, or feeling exiled, or the taste of dust. And sleeping wake, and flowing are at rest. But also we have a green-winged longing for the sweetness of the friend. Kathleen Raine.
Let us begin the journey home, with love and compassion for guides, From the opening page of “To Know We’re Loved – The Invisible Way’ and grace protecting.
Let your soul turn into an empty mirror that passionately wants to reflect Joseph. Hand him your present.
Now let silence speak. As that begins, we will start out.
Rumi translated by Coleman Barks.
Reshad was born in Hascombe in 1934, and after leaving school he Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) in the West. Later in his life, he tried out several paths before finding the one he would remain with more and more turned away from all outer religious form and for the rest of his life. He served in the British Navy, stockbroking, rather taught what he termed “the inner essence of Sufi teaching” advertising and had an unerring eye as an antiques dealer. A lover of music, Reshad played his guitar in wine bars all round Chelsea, as well as “the art and science of breath”. He propagated “the often in Luba’s Bistro, the niece of G.I. Gurdjieff. In 1960 he joined absolute unity of being”, underlined the common roots of all up with Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom and together they authentic spiritual traditions and encouraged the personal quest for formed The Springfields, a band that went on to have several chart self-knowledge. hits. Reshad left the Springfields in 1961 and set off on a life long In 1970, Reshad established the Beshara Centre at Swyre Farm adventure, which he describes as a ‘continual search for ever finer Gloucestershire, England. In 1973, at the request of Bulent Rauf, dimensions of truth’. Reshad travelled the world coming into Reshad left the UK and travelled to Vancouver to begin teaching on contact with the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, met with his own. He had been given certain tasks and teachings to pass on Tibetan Buddhism and it’s Lama’s, American Sioux Indians as well from the very essence of Sufism. From there he travelled as shamans, became a Radionics healing practitioner and met the throughout Canada and the States, setting up groups for those masters of the Sufi path. interested in the teachings. It was that path that lead him to his true spiritual teacher Bulent In 1993, he started a large teaching centre called Johanneshof, in Rauf and found what is called the Way of Love, Compassion and Switzerland, dividing his time between Switzerland and New Service. In the late 1960s, he was initiated as a Sheikh in the Sufi Mexico, before returning to the UK in 2004. Order International by PirVilayat Inayat Khan. He repeatedly He published more than a dozen books, translated into many travelled to Turkey during the 1970s, where he was initiated into languages. The most famous of which being The Last Barrier, which the Mevlevi Sufi order. On instruction by its then leading Sheikh tells a small portion of his journey with “Hamid”, Bulent Rauf. Suleiman Dede in Konya, Feild helped in introducing the sacred Sema ceremony to America and Europe, and made it available to Wherever he went, his fishing rods weren’t far behind. His love of women and non-Muslims. fly fishing and adventure were passed down to his three sons.
Reshad Feild’s work considerably contributed to the recognition and dissemination of the teachings of the Persian poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) as well as of the Andalusian Sufi
Reshad was born in Hascombe in 1934, and after leaving school he Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165–1240) in the West. Later in his life, he tried out several paths before finding the one he would remain with more and more turned away from all outer religious form and for the rest of his life. He served in the British Navy, stockbroking, rather taught what he termed “the inner essence of Sufi teaching” advertising and had an unerring eye as an antiques dealer. A lover of music, Reshad played his guitar in wine bars all round Chelsea, as well as “the art and science of breath”. He propagated “the often in Luba’s Bistro, the niece of G.I. Gurdjieff. In 1960 he joined absolute unity of being”, underlined the common roots of all up with Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom and together they authentic spiritual traditions and encouraged the personal quest for formed The Springfields, a band that went on to have several chart self-knowledge. hits. Reshad left the Springfields in 1961 and set off on a life long In 1970, Reshad established the Beshara Centre at Swyre Farm adventure, which he describes as a ‘continual search for ever finer Gloucestershire, England. In 1973, at the request of Bulent Rauf, dimensions of truth’. Reshad travelled the world coming into Reshad left the UK and travelled to Vancouver to begin teaching on contact with the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, met with his own. He had been given certain tasks and teachings to pass on Tibetan Buddhism and it’s Lama’s, American Sioux Indians as well from the very essence of Sufism. From there he travelled as shamans, became a Radionics healing practitioner and met the throughout Canada and the States, setting up groups for those masters of the Sufi path. interested in the teachings. It was that path that lead him to his true spiritual teacher Bulent In 1993, he started a large teaching centre called Johanneshof, in Rauf and found what is called the Way of Love, Compassion and Switzerland, dividing his time between Switzerland and New Service. In the late 1960s, he was initiated as a Sheikh in the Sufi Mexico, before returning to the UK in 2004. Order International by PirVilayat Inayat Khan. He repeatedly He published more than a dozen books, translated into many travelled to Turkey during the 1970s, where he was initiated into languages. The most famous of which being The Last Barrier, which the Mevlevi Sufi order. On instruction by its then leading Sheikh tells a small portion of his journey with “Hamid”, Bulent Rauf. Suleiman Dede in Konya, Feild helped in introducing the sacred Sema ceremony to America and Europe, and made it available to Wherever he went, his fishing rods weren’t far behind. His love of women and non-Muslims. fly fishing and adventure were passed down to his three sons.
Reshad Feild’s work considerably contributed to the recognition and dissemination of the teachings of the Persian poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) as well as of the Andalusian Sufi
Reshad Feild Don’t Cry because it’s over Smile because I happened April 15th 1934 – May 31st 2016
Dr Seuss Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
Rumi