Seeing God Equally in All Things
Reading Meister Eckhart on Spiritual Life Meister Eckhart was one of the greatest sages of the world who had a troubled relationship with the Christian Church for supposed heresies. When we closely examine his doctrine and try to live his sermons one finds that what distinguished him from most of his contemporaries is commitment to non-dual or Unitarian paradigm that in the Islamic world has been defining feature of great current of Sufism. What is in Eckhart that he influenced some of the most important modern thinkers including Heidegger? What is in him that his writings are compared to Upanisads by none other than AKC? What is in him that it was said about him that God hid nothing from him? What is in him that he has been subject of numerous illuminating comparative studies including the one with such spiritual giants as Sankara and Ibn Arabi (one may see Reza Shah Kazmi’s work on the same). For me Eckhart is, along with certain Muslim metaphysicians and sages, the best antidote t...