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Reading 4 of 5 The Ground Beneath the Names

One ground

Meister Eckhart, fourteenth century, Dominican priest, says the same sentence inside the Christian vocabulary, and gets investigated for it.

The reading — Meister Eckhart, Sermons (c. 1300)

The Eye Through Which God Sees

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

If I am to know God directly, I must become completely God, and God must become completely I, so that I and God are one.

God’s ground is my ground and my ground is God’s ground. Here I live from what is my own, as God lives from what is his own.

The very spark of the soul — Seelengrund — which God created for himself, akin to himself, is the meeting point where God and soul are one.

Mysticism c. 1308 CE Open this teaching on the Map →
The framing

Read this slowly. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one loving.

This is the Chandogya in the Christian vocabulary. It is also why Eckhart was tried for heresy. The Church could accommodate the believer who said God is in me. It could not accommodate the believer who said my ground and God’s ground are one ground, because that sentence dissolves the gap that a hierarchy exists to stand in.

What the mystics keep doing, across traditions, is closing that gap in public. Notice that Eckhart does it with no fireworks. He simply tells you what he saw.

Carry with you
Where do you maintain a gap that the mystics keep telling you isn’t there?