Nicole Spencer
@sennin49.bsky.social
WRITING POETRY, MAKING ART, EXPLORING THIS EMBODIED EXISTENCE …
IN THE WORDS of the late Sam Hamill: "I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, 'I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry.' There's no separation for me …" Yeah, it's like that … ☯
IN THE WORDS of the late Sam Hamill: "I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, 'I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry.' There's no separation for me …" Yeah, it's like that … ☯
I sought to touch on that state that the love-drunk Ṣūfīs call 'fanā' (فناء) – literally, "to die before one dies" … Not the ultimate consummation, but that stage in the divine romance where ego & its referential web unravel & burn away before the radiance of the Beloved …
March 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I sought to touch on that state that the love-drunk Ṣūfīs call 'fanā' (فناء) – literally, "to die before one dies" … Not the ultimate consummation, but that stage in the divine romance where ego & its referential web unravel & burn away before the radiance of the Beloved …