Dukkha

It is perhaps amusing to note the etymology of the words sukha (pleasure, comfort, bliss) and duḥkha (misery, unhappiness, pain). The ancient Aryans who brought the Sanskrit language to India were a nomadic, horse- and cattle-breeding people who travelled in horse- or ox-drawn vehicles. Su and dus are prefixes indicating good or bad. The word kha, in later Sanskrit meaning "sky," "ether," or "space," was originally the word for "hole," particularly an axle hole of one of the Aryan's vehicles. Thus sukha … meant, originally, "having a good axle hole," while duhkha meant "having a poor axle hole," leading to discomfort.

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Derby

From Jan Kersschot's 'Coming Home' (p. 49)

Cf also Wilber on translation/transformation ('One Taste' February) and Simone Weil passim.

Religions often act as a way of creating meaning for the separate self or to give answers to our fears. Religion offers myths and stories that help the personality to make sense of everyday life or explain certain issues. However, this doesn't necessarily help us in discovering our true nature. Rather it consoles the personality, fortifies the self in its existence as a separate entity ...

The problem with the quest for the Ultimate is that, in the end, we will personalize it ...

Similarly philosophy also promotes the ego ... The personality learns to translate human life into the terms of a new language ...

Beata viscera

Beata viscera Marie virginis cuius ad ubera rex magni nominis; veste sub altera vim celans numinis dictavit federa Dei et hominis O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		Blessed flesh of the Virgin Mary, at whose breasts the king of eminent name, concealing, under altered guise, the force of divine nature, has sealed a pact of God and Man O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
Populus gentium sedens in tenebris surgit ad gaudium partus tam celebris: Iudea tedium fovet in latebris, cor gerens conscium delicet funebris, O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		The people of the nations huddling in the darkness rise up at the joy of so celebrated a birth. Judea nourishes its resentment in the shadows, its heart bearing the knowledge of the fatal crime. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
Fermenti pessimi qui fecam hauserant, ad panis azimi promisa properant: sunt Deo proximi qui longe steterant, et hi njovissimi qui primi fuerant. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		Those who drunk the dregs of the most villanous ferment hasten at the promises of unleavened bread; they are the ones who had long stood close to God and these the newest who were first. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
Partum quem destruis, Iudea misera! De quo nos argues, quem docet littera; si nova respuis, crede vel vetera, in hoc quem astruis Christum considera. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		The birth which you destroy O wretched Judea! of him whom you denounce to us because he teaches the law; if you refuse the new law then believe the old law, in this One, whom you accuse, behold the Christ. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
Te semper implicas errore patrio; dum viam indicas errans in invio: in his que predicas, sternis in medio bases propheticas sub evangelio. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		You entangle yourself always in the ancestral error; as you point the way wandering aimlessly: among those things which you preach you strew into the midst the prophetic foundations, below the gospel. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
Legis mosayce clausa misteria; nux virge mystice nature nescia; aqua de silice, columpna previa, prolis dominice signa sunt propera. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		The mysteries of the Mosaic Law have been closed; the fruit of the mystical rod is unknown to nature; water from a stone, a column leading the way, are early signs for the people of God . O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
Solem, quem librere, Dum purus otitur In aura cernere visus non patitur, cernat a latere dum repercutitur, alvus puerpere, qua totus clauditur. O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.		Vision does not endure to behold in its radiance the sun, unconcealed, as he rises forth, pure. Let the wholly enclosed womb of the woman delivered of child behold from the side as it is reflected. O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.
		Translation: Barbara DeMarco

Mind &c

That which experiences ... is known by many names:  the "kingdom of heaven", or "the kingdom of God," the "light," "Sophia" or "Wisdom," the "Word" or "Logos," and nous (a Greek word usually translated as "mind" but actually meaning something like "consciousness"). All these terms reveal different aspects of this primordial Self, or experiencer ...


Inner Christianity, Richard Smoley, p 51

Veni Creator Spiritus

Veni, creator Spiritus

mentes tuorum visita,

imple superna gratia,

quae tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus,

altissimi donum Dei,

fons vivus, ignis, caritas

et spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere,

digitus paternae dexterae

tu rite promissum Patris

sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus,

infunde amorem cordibus,

infirma nostri corporis,

virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius

pacemque dones protinus;

ductore sic te praevio

vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem

noscamus atque Filium,

te utriusque Spiritum

credamus omni tempore.

Deo Patri sit gloria,

et Filio qui a mortuis

Surrexit, ac Paraclito,

in saeculorum saecula.

Amen.

Pange lingua

Pange lingua gloriosi

Corporis mysterium,

Sanguinisque pretiosi,

Quem in mundi pretium

Fructus ventris generosi,

Rex effudit gentium.

Nobis datus, nobis natus

Ex intacta Virgine

Et in mundo conversatus,

Sparso verbi semine,

Sui moras incolatus

Miro clausit ordine.

In supremae nocte cenae

Recum bens cum fratribus,

Observata lege plene

Cibis in legalibus,

Cibum turbae duodenae

Se dat suis manibus

Verbum caro, panem verum

Verbo carnem efficit:

Fitque sanguis Christi merum,

Et si sensus deficit,

Ad firmandum cor sincerum

Sola fides sufficit.

Tantum ergo Sacramentum

veneremur cernui:

et antiquum documentum

novo cedat ritui:

praestet fides supplementum

sensuum defectui.

Genitori, Genitoque

laus et jubilatio,

salus, honor, virtus quoque

sit et benedictio:

Procedenti ab utroque

compar sit laudatio.

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli

Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,

Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,

Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem

Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore

Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.