The Radical Mystic Who Found God in Nothingness: Meister Eckhart

[@ozzycrowley9421]

What's the name of the painting on the thumbnail ?

[@harismind]

Thanks so much for this

[@mikehutchinson4826]

Eckhart has more in common with Buddhism than Advaita Vedanta.

[@gregoryrossi120]

Also with Gregory of Palamas

[@MeisterFF]

Disagree. The Essence of Eckhart is just Being. There is a very subtle difference between the 2 non-dual Eastern philosophies. They both, like Eckhart describe an emptiness and detachment. But as David Hawkins explains Vedanta supersedes Buddhism in ultimate reality. He calibrates it higher in the consciousness scale because underlying emptiness in Advaita Vedanta there's ultimate Being. Buddhism stops at nothingness.

[@mikehutchinson4826]

@ not listening to what some dude named David Hawkins says about Buddhism or Advaita. Lmao.

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

'Nothingness', is an abstraction, there is No 'nothing', Only Something. Eckhart, points at the Only Real Steady Point, in Existence, the Being behind the Living. You have Never Seen your Self.

[@yggdrasild755]

We are eternal and reincarnation is real

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

Yaeh, You're right, and even much more real, than most is aware of. During normal sleep, We move our Day-Consciousness, to the Night-bodies, Deep-Sleep, one by one, via our Coupling- body, REM. It is the Same, after leaving the physical body permanent, just longer, equal to our last age. But also, the body We see in mirror, is Not older than 1½ year, so the Organism- Shifting-Princip is active at different levels.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

“My second name today is Eckhart. I would have loved for him to have been born in the East. To be born among Germans and then to write or speak about the ultimate is a difficult job. But the poor man did it, and did it perfectly. Germans are Germans; whatsoever they do, they do it perfectly. Even today it seems one German sannyasin is still knocking. Perfection! Listen to his knocks, how beautiful they sound amidst all this silence. It is a wonder that Eckhart, among the Germans, the most male chauvinist race in the world, remained yet in his heart, and spoke from there. Uneducated, poor, of no political status, of no economic status, of no status at all - just a beggar, but so rich. Very few people have been so rich. Rich in his being - his BEING. Write BEING in capital letters. These two words, being and becoming, have to be understood. Becoming is a process with no beginning and no end, a continuum. But being is not a process at all, it simply is. Call it is-ness, and you will be very close to it. Being is neither of time nor of space, it is a transcendence. Transcendence - again, write TRANSCENDENCE in capital letters. Alas that you cannot write it in golden letters. It is a word that should be written in gold, pure gold - not eighteen carat but twenty-four carat, one hundred percent gold."

[@donovansnyder2898]

This is pretty much straight Buddhism. The Greeks were attracted by Buddhism so maybe Eckhart picked some of this up from Aristotle.

[@samfawlia]

just hire a voice over from fiver or something, the ai voice is just too much

[@mattnewhouse1781]

Jewish mystics said G-d is nothingness.

[@HeyItsTim]

No AI voices for me. Good bye.