I've been really interested in medieval Christian mysticism for some reason lately, and after reading The Perennial Philosophy by A. Huxley I decided to read a collection of sermons by Meister Eckhart. He was a through-and-through mystic, who was posthumously convicted of heresy for a number of reasons (mostly teaching things that the common people would take the wrong way) and had an interesting idea of constant unity with the divine, not unlike Zen Buddhism if you replace "the divine" with "disinterestedness." Has anyone else read his stuff? Thoughts?
But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
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Re: Meister Eckhart
His first name was "Meister"? Then he must be either really cool or really evil.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
Re: Meister Eckhart
meister is fun but he's no cloud of unknowing.
i ended up reading a bunch of shit like that before i had to do some pre cana stuff, on the mistaken impression that this would be necessary. it came in handy, actually, when i had a one on one with the priest. it got a little hairy and abstract when he kept asking me what i thought about jesus and i kept spinning off onto these tangents about spiritual anarchism and whatnot. he kinda lost his patience and said "no, what i mean is do you think jesus was the son of god?"
"oh, no."
"ok, then. now..."
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
Re: Meister Eckhart
Not to burst your bubble, but its actually just an academic title.
I never really went for the medieval Christian mystics. Just seemed to have too much trinitarian baggage to me.
I CAUTION YOU / IN DEFEATING ORCS WE MAY FIND THE ONLY VILLAIN LEFT TO FACE IS OUR OWN PREJUDICE--qwantz.com