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When I read Merton in the 9th grade, it has such a deep effect on me and a graduate from

high school and entered and lived there in the community and got to sit with him personally.

And I saw him as a living mystic. He held the lineage of the Christian mystical tradition.

He's the one who led me into these classical texts that we've been studying here. And so with that

current, when I read Eckhart, it's access to one translation at the time. I could tell he said

beautiful things. For example, he says the i, the y, e, the i, the i with which i see god is,

the i with god, which god sees me. I like that. But I couldn't see how it fit. So I want to say this

though. Let's say, like Reiner Sherman says, he risks under the guise of speculative mysticism,

under the guise of this metaphysical language, which we'll look at, the joy without a cause.

And what we're after here in the podcast is the joy without a cause. So I'm going to be emphasizing

that when we hear Eckhart say things, we'll hear it and give examples where we can say,

I've experienced that. I've experienced that where I think what Eckhart is doing is helping me

find a language to understand that. And he's also providing a way that I can deepen it. That's

the emphasis here. So I'm emphasizing this kind of experiential simplicity to it.

Why do you love god? I don't know because of god. Why do you love the truth? Because of the truth.

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