Category Archives: Meister Eckhart

Spiritual Aphorisms of Meister Eckhart

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Vajragoni

It would take a lifetime to cover every aspect of Meister Eckhart’s thought. We have covered dominant insights in this series but would also like to leave you with assorted spiritual aphorisms from the Meister which covers a wide-range of … Continue reading →

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True Virginity

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Vajragoni

As was announced earlier in this series, the phrase “knowing as he was not” is indicative of mystical virginity—being lathered in imagelessness and thus freed from all that is not the Godhead; principally, all that is prior to conception. If … Continue reading →

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Eternal Birth

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Vajragoni

It is within Eckhart’s exact art of preaching and the “ascesis of attentive listening” that the transcendent awareness of the Divine Birth takes place, and the mystical ground is self-realized; incidentally this is the same act as proclaiming and receiving … Continue reading →

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The Praxis of Detachment

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Vajragoni

Eckhart writes in a treatise On Detachment and on Possessing God: I was asked, ‘Some people shun all company and always want to be alone; their peace depends on it, and on being in church. Was that the best thing? … Continue reading →

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Mysticism of the Ground

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Vajragoni

Numerous references have been employed for this series, in particular articles from the Medieval Mystical Theology, The Journal of The Eckhart Society. But by far the dominant one is Bernard McGinn’s The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart, The Crossroad Publishing … Continue reading →

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Meister Eckhart

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Vajragoni

I was introduced to the teachings of Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) in the fall of 1982 during my first year in seminary. It was in a Spirituality-class and part of the curriculum was a book written by Dominican theologian Matthew Fox … Continue reading →

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