2020-08-07

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Gan leas a bhaint as a acmhainneacht iomlán, níl an duine in ann cuspóir na beatha a chomhlíonadh. Bíonn sé ag fulaingt ar go leor bealaí mar nach bhfuil cumas iomlán comhfhiosach a aigne á úsáid aige; níl leas á bhaint aige as an bhfuinneamh iontach atá istigh ann... Is geall le milliúnaí é a bhfuil a shaibhreas dearmadta aige agus a théann amach ar an tsráid ag lorg déirce.

2020-08-06

Haiku le Yoshii Yoshie

案山子翁何か叫びぬ風の中


seanfhear bréigerud éigin á scairteadh aigear an ngaoth

2020-08-04

Mainistir

Grianghraf: Ron Rosenstock
crom
is éist . . .
éist leis na clocha
bend low
listen . . .
the stones speak
σκύψτε χαμηλά
αφουγκραστείτε . . .
oι ταφόπλακες μιλούν

Leagan Gréigise: Sarah Thilykou

2020-08-03

Mantra Páilise




  बुद्धं शरणं गच्छामि।
Buddham saranam gacchami
Go dtí an Búda liom chun tearmann a lorg


धर्मं शरणं गच्छामि।
Dhammam saranam gacchami
Go dtí an Damma liom chun tearmann a lorg

संघं शरणं गच्छामि।
Sangham saranam gacchami
Go dtí an Sanga liom chun tearmann a lorg

2020-08-02

FOIGHID

Tuigim
nach dtig liom
blátha na Bealtaine a bhailiú
i ngort an gheimhridh
ná sméara a bhlaiseadh
ins na Faoillí.

Tuigim
go mbíonn a uain
ag an uile ní.

Fillfidh na fáinleoga
fillfidh an chuach
beidh an traonach le cloisint arís
ó chuibhreann ghlas
cois abhann.

Cad chuige mar sin
nach dtuigim
an chiall atá le foighid?

An Suibhneach Meann


Patience

I know
I cannot gather
May flowers
in a wintry field
or savour blackberries
in the month of February.

I know
there is a season
to all things.

Swallows will return
so, too, the cuckoo
the corncrake will be heard again
in the green field
by the river.

Why is it then
I know nothing at all
of patience?

Translated from the Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock


Pádraig Mac Suibhne (An Suibhneach Meann) was a poet and actor from the Baile Bhuirne Gaeltacht. It is said that he received the gift of poetry from his grandmother, Máirín, who had no English.


PATIENCE


A ken
a cannae gaither
Mey flooers
in a wuntry perk
or pree blackberries
i the month o Februar.

A ken
thayr's a saison
fir awthings.

Swallaes'll retour
aye, an the gowk an aw;
we'll hearken aince mair tae the craik
i the emerant perk
bi the watter.

Whit wey, then
is't a ken naethin ava
o patience?

John McDonald

2020-08-01

Smaoineamh an Lae: Thought for the Day


Bíonn frithréabhlóid ag gach réabhlóid

Every revolution has its counter-revolution

C.Wright Mills