Dialogue 3: Eckhart’s Path of Detachment

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This is the third dialogue that focuses on the mystic Meister Eckhart. In this episode, Jim and Kirsten discuss Session 3 and the theme around Eckhart's path of detachment. 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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0:26.5	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 Kiston Oates. Welcome to
0:55.8	Turning to the Mystics. Welcome everyone to season seven of Turning to the Mystics.
1:08.4	Where we're turning to the German Mystic, Master Eckhart. And I'm here with Jim and we're going to
1:15.3	dialogue about Jim's session three. Talk. Welcome, Jim. Yes, I was glad to
1:22.3	rejoin you for Eckhart chat. What a rich session. This one was session three. There was just a lot
1:30.8	in there to digest. I really enjoyed it. And I think I could listen to it over and over again
1:37.1	to really capture everything and digest everything that you offered.
1:41.5	So I hope today we can explore a few of the concepts. And again, if people want to send in
1:48.4	their own questions, we do a question and response with listener questions at the end of the season.
1:54.4	So I'm sure there'll be some additional questions that will be helpful to everyone coming in for
2:00.9	that. So to get started, Jim, you said towards the end of the session that Eckhart is not teaching
2:07.6	a method, he is instead inviting us to be more consciously aware of choices we can make throughout
2:14.5	the day. So would you say this is a way of life we're trying to adopt? Yes, let's say for Eckhart,
2:25.3	the point of departure is the generosity of God. So the the glauzen like the generosity of God
2:33.5	is that that the abyss like depths of God, the ground, is by the generosity of God given to us
2:44.1	in our nothingness without God. This ground is my ground, my ground is God. So there's a communion
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