Dialogue 2: The Hidden Ground of God

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This is the second dialogue that focuses on the mystic Meister Eckhart. In this episode, Jim and Kirsten discuss Session 2 and the theme around the hidden ground of God. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. Jim's reading list for Meister Eckhart can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about Meister Eckhart? Email us: podcasts@cac.org or leave us voicemail. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:14.4	Jim offers guided reflections to help you become more conscious of the thread of your own sacred
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0:26.4	Register today at cac.org-healing-retreat. That's cac.org slash h-e-a-l-i-n-g-r-e-t-r-e-a-t.
0:41.4	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more,
0:46.3	visit cac.org. Greetings. I'm Jim Finley. And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to
0:55.7	Turning to the Mystics. Welcome everyone to Turning to the Mystics. We're in season 7
1:10.3	and we're turning to Meister Eckhart and I'm here with Jim and we've got our fabulous producer
1:16.2	Corey in the background supporting us and we're going to be reflecting on Jim's second talk
1:23.3	on Meister Eckhart. Welcome, Jim. Yes, yes, good to pick this up again and move on together
1:29.6	in Eckhart. Well, you covered a lot of ground in that session and I hope that if I don't delve
1:37.6	into an area that someone's interested in that they'll send in their questions because we do
1:42.5	that that special session at the end of the season where we take questions from people who've
1:48.9	listened to the season and so there's just a lot of a lot of good stuff in this session so I'm
1:54.2	sure others will add their own questions and help help us all delve deeper into this topic.
2:02.5	So the framework in you're guiding us through aspects of Meister Eckhart's teaching and I just
2:09.2	wanted to kind of feed back to you what I'm hearing is the frame and just help me understand it.
2:17.1	So there seems to be four aspects to Eckhart's teaching. The first one is the ultimate or divine
2:25.2	nature of our existence that we can experience and then he's what you described as diagnosing a dilemma
2:32.8	that we're estranged from experiencing this reality and then Eckhart offers a path where we can
2:41.0	be delivered from this dilemma which you've named as the path of detachment and then Eckhart talks
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