
Taoism and Meister Eckhart on Contemplation and Meditation
The Tao te Ching advises letting be and promises a return to our origins when it counsels: Accept the world as it is.If you accept
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The Tao te Ching advises letting be and promises a return to our origins when it counsels: Accept the world as it is.If you accept

Contemplation and meditation are a universal phenomenon. We see them taught and encouraged in spiritual traditions the world over. Clearly slowing down and being fully

The Buddha taught this about meditation: Any feeling whatsoever–past, future or present, internal or external; blatant or subtle, common or sublime, far or near; every

The goal of meditation is to see reality as it is in all its clarity, radiance and truth. Jesus taught that “the kingdom/queendom of God

In Contemplation, one dares the dark. One enters into silence and darkness. Eckhart is famous for celebrating the Apophatic Divinity, the God of “superessential darkness who

We are exploring the foundational question: What does it mean to be human? We are drawing from the “10 C’s” to learn what they tell

Continuing our discussion of the “C” of Contemplation, we are listening again to Buddhist teacher Lama Tsomo. We are in our true selves, this ocean

We ended our previous DM with an amazing teaching from Meister Eckhart that sounds radically Buddhist about letting go of all images. It seems appropriate,

Eckhart admonishes us to “quit flapping your gums about God.” Rather, learn to speak from “the inner wealth of silence….Be silent and let God work

While Eckhart extols our powers of contemplation and repose, he does not do so at the expense of creative and prophetic action. Rather, he sees
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