Meister Eckhart: Session 3

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This is the third 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
0:06.0	retreat. Saturday, August 26th from 9-5 Pacific. Inspired by his memoir, The Healing Path,
0:14.4	Jim offers guided reflections to help you become more conscious of the thread of your own sacred
0:20.5	journey. The event will be recorded and all registered will have access to the replay.
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.
0:56.2	Welcome to our time together. Turning to Forguidance to the Christian Mystic Meister.
1:12.7	I think a helpful way to begin is to remind ourselves that the guidance of
1:20.8	Meister Eckhart offers us in his sermons is attempts to help us deepen our experiential
1:31.5	understanding of the depths of God's presence in our lives. We've been seeing how a foundational
1:41.2	way that he voices this or helps us along these lines of this deepening is with his metaphor
1:51.6	of the ground. The ground of God is the deepest depths of God and in the generosity of God,
2:00.3	the deepest depths of God is given to us as the deepest depths of ourself and are nothing
2:05.8	us without God so that our ground and God's ground is one ground and hidden down in the depths of
2:12.4	ourself then as a union that's already present, awaiting to be realized, lived and shared.
2:22.1	And so the path then is a path that helps us find our way to this ground by overcoming what
2:30.5	hinders us from finding our way to the ground and being liberated from the hindrances.
2:38.7	And we also saw that for Eckhart that God has given us a nature, a human nature with faculties
2:47.6	or abilities and his words with powers which is the kind of our soul which is the interiority
2:55.7	of our faculties and has given us the capacity to live our life as human beings in our passage
3:02.8	through time. And it's in the powers of our soul, it's the capacity to awaken to or to realize
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