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Muslim / Sufi

12th Century

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Timeline (1098 - 1131)

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English version by
Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Nonexistence

Commentary by
Ivan M. Granger

Recommended Books

	The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady
	Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler
	Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut
	Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years, by Idries Shah

Nonexistence
within existence
is my Rule
getting lost
in getting lost
my Religion.

-- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

I like this terse poem by Hamadani.

A few lines of a wry word game is all it takes to point out how the illusion of separate, individual existence falls away in the deepest realization.

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