More Celtic Englightenment

[Lee]

I find this pretty amazing.   O'Donahue's understanding parallels the Sandokai:

 http://www.berkeleyzencenter.org/Texts/sandokai.shtml

Merging of Difference and Unity.

"The eternal is not elsewhere; it is not distant. There is nothing as near as the eternal. This is captured in a lovely Celtic phrase: "Tá tír na n-óg ar chul an tí--tír álainn trina chéile" -- that is, "The land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent within itself." The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused. The beautiful Gaelic phrase fighte fuaighte, "woven into and through each other," captures this. "  --John O'Donohue

I put the whole section here:

http://beannachtai.blogspot.com/

    The Buddha taught universal principles that are not hindered by dogma or ideology.   You can find them in mystical aspects of other traditions, like the work of Meister Echart or in many perennial/indigenous traditions.   This is possible because these are universal principles and can be experienced by examining one's own mind or, the manifestation of our mind on the environment.  


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Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/

"Ta tIr na n-óg ar chul an tI—tIr dlainn trina chéile"—that is, "The land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent within itself." -- John O'Donohue