Meister Eckhart: Session 1

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is the first session that focuses on the mystic, Meister Eckhart. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley begins with passages from a few of Meister Eckhart's sermons, reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of these texts, and finishes with a meditative practice. 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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0:00.0	How do you tell the story of your inner journey? Join James Finley for the healing stories online
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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. Welcome to Turning to the Mistakes.
0:56.3	Greetings, everyone. And welcome to our time here together, turning for guidance to the Christian
1:10.0	Mystic Master Echo. One of the patterns that we've seen in the teachings of the mystics that they
1:18.4	all share and express each and his or her own way is the importance of doing our homework
1:26.6	in grounding ourselves in psychological spiritual maturity. Because the mystical dimensions
1:35.7	of experiencing, understanding, and responding to God's oneness with us arises out of the
1:41.6	ordinariness of our lives, out of the substance of the ordinariness of things, of just who we are
1:48.2	day by day. And so, Eckhart expresses this first in the level of human experience in which he
1:58.4	responds to a series of questions presented to him. Why do you love God? I don't know because of God.
2:08.8	Why do you love the truth? Because of the truth. Why do you love justice? Because of justice.
2:16.8	Why do you love goodness? Because of goodness. Why do you live? My word, I do not know, but I'm
2:24.0	happy to live. He says, so I think here a lesson that he bears witness to in himself and he
2:32.3	invites us to be faithful to is knowing just that life for all of its troubles, for all of its
2:41.2	troubles, that it's a gift to be alive and real in the world, that it's a gift. And we should
2:47.7	honor that gift therefore and watch over it and be responsible for it and fidelity to the gift of
2:55.3	life itself. But notice too, there's a subtle point here in this passage because when he says,
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