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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
The preacher Master Eckhart was once accused of heresy. He not only questioned the authority of the church, but also described the open secret that is spoken of today in Advaita and Nonduality. Andreas Müller presents mystical words of Master Eckhart and comments on them.
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Contents
This sermon
Master Eckhart
Do not seek anything
Suffer God
Leave yourself
Aware of God
How to love God?
Glory is everywhere
Needs and desires
Not knowing
This something
One seeing
About Master Eckhart
Sources
About Andreas Müller
Acknowledgements
This sermon
“If anyone cannot understand this sermon, he need not worry. For so long as a man is not equal to this truth, hecannot understand my words, for this is a naked truth which has come direct from the heart of God.”1
This message is an impersonal message. It doesn’t belong to anyone. It doesn’t speak to anyone. It is direct. It means what it says and still remains empty. It doesn’t contain a method. There is nothing in it that can be recognized.
I know that with Master Eckhart it always sounds as if there is something to be found. Again and again, it sounds as if there is someone who could be in the right way. What Eckhart meant remains speculation. Yet some of his words seem to resonate with me.
Nevertheless – there was no Master Eckhart, just as there is no such thing as me or any separate authority. These words have no meaning. There is no need to work on them or cling to them.
They are like a song, and whoever hears it may feel joy. If you don’t hear it, don’t be bothered by it.
There is nothing to be found and nothing to lose. What appears to be happening is naturally everything. That is the joy – a joy that nobody owns and that is everything at the same time. That is what these words speak of. And yet they add nothing.
Master Eckhart
Q: You wanted to write a book about Master Eckhart ...
A: ... or at least say something about him.
Q: So what happened?
A: This little book. The beginning was difficult. I had a look at the “Sermons and Tracts.” And then I noticed: Everything is already there as it should be!
The passages that I wanted to comment on were and are so clear that there is not much left to comment on.
And then it just happened.
It is amazing what this Dominican monk said back then without having had any serious problems.
Q: Wasn't he brought to trial?
A: At the end of his life, yes, or even a little later. In fact, it went well for a long time. And it’s amazing that he was only charged for 28 sentences. Posthumously. Because he died before he was sentenced.
Q: What is he saying so bluntly?
A: For example: that there is no one. And that God is more of a non-God. And that existence is more like non-existence.
Q: That the Church couldn’t fully agree with this is perhaps understandable. But do you agree?
A: At least such sentences can be transferred to my reading. For example: There is no observable reality.
We live in absolute blind flight, just like the entire apparent universe.
This is because the observer himself is illusory. Even speaking of an observer who exists in some way – real, unreal, illusory – can give the impression that such a thing exists.
But there is no such thing. There is no one. There is no observer. There is no separate awareness.
And because awareness is not real, what is being witnessed cannot really be witnessed either! What is, is absolutely blind to itself.
Q: You mean that’s what Eckhart meant when he said existence is more like non-existence?
A: Yes, the seemingly everyday experience of presence has no substance.
Q: Do I have to understand that? Or may I agree with Eckhart: If anyone cannot understand this sermon, he need not worry.
