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bobby1933

Spiritual And Economic Poverty

Feb 15, 2016 18:59

economy, equality, ego, franciscans, empathy, sermon on the mount, power, emptiness

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nerthus February 17 2016, 16:11:44 UTC

Funny how you and I are often on the same wavelength with the topics we are studying; I've just been reading Meister Eckhart and the sermon for the other day was on poverty. Have you read him? In the sermon I read he spoke of 3 kinds of poverty ( ... )

bobby1933 February 17 2016, 19:52:14 UTC

This is the sort of thing i expected, but never quite found in Eckhart. I have a book of his sermons and lectures and i think i can find it there.

Thank you, that was a pleasure to read!

nerthus February 18 2016, 05:13:10 UTC

You're welcome! Mine is the Harper Torchbook version translated by Raymond Blakney, has also the text of Eckhart's Defense against charges of heresy. Forgot to add that to the end of my comment earlier!

bobby1933 February 18 2016, 07:10:27 UTC

Yes, i found the sermon in Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings, translated by Oliver Davies. Marginal notes and underlinings suggest that i read it several years ago, but i could not have understood half of it at the time as it so much more profound and true and universal now. I am in awe, and it is like i had never read the sermon before.

Eckhart had a few medieval ideas, especially about women, so he turned me off and i fear i missed the good stuff.