Meister Eckhart's Christmas Sermon One. Where is the Word born and how?

[@benbrown4692]

Thank you Mark. It matters more than I can say to share such magnificent mystical teaching at this time. Eckhart, the supreme mystic, is one of the very few who understood the depth and reality of the incarnation and understood it as a cosmic inner event which occurs now as much as in the past. As a priest in the Church of England there is so much work to be done to share the life-giving treasure of this teaching and I really appreciate your work here in sharing it and analysing it with such passion and insight. A return to the riches of a truly mystical Christianity is something our world is crying out for.

[@LeonieMart]

Thankyou Mark. This has resonated in many ways. May you be blessed

[@thethomasraymond]

How beautiful, especially love this: “ There IS a ground of the soul, not found through effort or activity or analysis, but by understanding it leads us to the place of the passive intellect.”

[@lynnhall9957]

I think this resonates with the insight stated simply-that we cannot know our self until we know God. Thank you elaborating on that. Very helpful in understanding the meaning behind this statement.

[@PlatosPodcasts]

Good summary, thanks.

[@Puuws]

If you look for yourself, you will find God. If you look for God, you will find yourself right?

[@ChrisVincent-w7t]

That was so well explained Mark! Thank you and God bless you.

[@peternoble7236]

lovely clear commentary - if you have time to work with further sermons it would be greatly appreciated - many thank's

[@simleserge4243]

Thanks. We have spent the morning contemplating the message of this sermon. Similar in many ways to the message of the Vivekachudamani.

[@shari6063]

That was fantastic, thank you so much for this Mark!

[@claudiasantana5969]

Beautiful understanding. Thank you, Mark.

[@robertleonard1975]

Thank you very much, Mark. You continue to do your readers and listeners a great service. Happy Christmas to you and those close to you.

[@Borsfrancis]

Wonderfully articulated Mark! This is the path

[@Borsfrancis]

And you are a very large signpost

[@Amanda1234-nqc]

Thankyou Mark ✌️ ❤

[@willgiorno1740]

Thankyou 😊

[@bradrandel1408]

🦋🕊☺️

[@andrewphilip3308]

5th limb of yoga -- pratyahara

[@michaelmcarthur8364]

Sorry Mark. I thought I was responding to David Bates

[@davidbates9358]

Are you confused about the nature of language and reality, Mark? Why in arguably the greatest 'reality-wise' story about humanity upon the cross of space-time ever written, does the birth of a savior take place within a stable because there was no room at an Inn? Did wise storytellers understand the perceptual-paradox of our communication-biased consciousness and language-defined 'misinterpretations' of the reality of creation, aka God? Is the N.T. story an antidote to the Genesis account of creation and arguably it's unintended consequence of 'linear' ideas about the reality of time for all forms of life on earth? Why is the climax of the savior story defined by the language term 'resurrection' and why does it 'appear' to happen during a definite period of the earth-turning reality of being-in-time? After watching the latest Brian Cox revelations about the reality of our solar-system, can you not turn within by educating yourself about your nervous-system and learn to 'feel' how the sun is effectively the 'father' of creation and the fertile earth the 'mother' of life in our milky way galaxy? And as a psychotherapist do you ever contemplate R. D. Laing’s "we are all in post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy," in the context of humanity’s 'raised-way,,' communication-biased consciousness?

[@PlatosPodcasts]

Gosh. How to respond. In short, I think that the inspired gospel narratives - and I’ve no doubt they are inspired - inspire you in the way that they do because they open onto all sorts of resonances, illuminate all sorts of aspects of reality, and can free us. Moreover, they last for millennia, in a way that the latest cosmologies and neuroscience won’t, because they are written in that way. (I did my physics long enough ago to have seen the latest revelations become the mistakes of yesteryear. Which is not to say I didn’t enjoy Cox’s programmes, because I did - mostly for the extraordinary beauty of them.) Happy Christmas!

[@patricksee10]

Brian Cox doesn't seem to know much about the reality of anything at all my friend, atheists generally have closed minds. The observations through a telescope combined with the zeitgeist ideology of your famously ideological public broadcaster wouldn't lead anyone to understanding

[@michaelmcarthur8364]

Your erudite response is too full of your pontificating ego. What is your point? What is your ontological premise behind your verbose argument?

[@1otterclan]

Wnat is the purpose of making this comment? Why be unkind?