Teiti Menma Posted November 10, 2022 Good morning, and peace to all! I am Teiti Menma. I had heard of Daoism a few decades ago while living in Asia, and will be studying more closely this Winter. I have a copy of Dao De Jing in Clear English (Pepper and Wang), and have been curious about Christ the Eternal Dao (Damascene). Eager to learn from others here and help others walking their respective Way. A bit more about the name Teiti Menma...not my real name. It's a name and a purpose, something to meditate upon, and I took it from a phrase in an old Irish story about a pig, and king and a queen, Scéla Mucce Meic Da Thó. One can pronounce "Teiti" as rhymes with "day tea". It comes from the following between snippet of a conversation a man and a woman, who are a king Ailill and a queen Meidb (Maeve) in Old Ireland, and it has stuck with me since the 90s: (translation to English below) Infer: Asbert Crimthand Nia[d] Nair, ni thardda do rún do mnaib, run mna ní maith concelar, main ar mug ni athenar. In ben: Cid fri mnai atbertha-su, mani thesbad ní aire? ní na téit do menma-su,teiti menma neich aile. The Man: "Crimthann Nia Nair said: 'Do not tell your secret to women.' The secret of a woman is not well kept. A treasure is not entrusted to a slave." The Woman: "Even to a woman you should speak if nothing should be lost thereby. A thing which your own mind cannot penetrate the mind of another will penetrate." I sometimes substitute hot/cold, or yang/yin, origin/destination, penetrator/recipient for "man/woman" in the above conversation. Read more at http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/MacDatho/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
