non-duality
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Here is one of my favour Christian texts. How do you think about it?
"Some people, do surrender to God, and know whatever God gives to them, it is the best for them.
Is it illness, poverty, hunger, thirst now or what ever God gives to us or doesn't give, that is the best.
And is it that we have neither prayers nor inwardness, just take it as God’s gift, and it is the best for us.
Then remember these people Jesus chased away, who bought and sold in the forecourt of the temple.
Who were these people?
Shopkeeper and coin changer!
See, all these are shopkeeper and coin changer, who keep away of rough sins do their good works to the honour of God. But do it for the seek of return. These are merchants. Shopkeeper and coin changer!
This has to be understood in the rough sense.
Because they give something and want something else. They bargain with our Lord.
And don't take what God gives them, unless it is the best for them.
If we surrender to our fate, and don’t bargain with God, we will get the power of God because it is a power of the mind.
It’s been called a castle of the soul or a hut of the spirit but it’s free of all names and pictures.
In this strength the father gives birth to the son also in us and is inherent in us.
Fertile and flourishing with his whole divinity.
That is how we want to live.
That is the truth we want to receive.
Help us God to reach this goal!"
Master Eckhard was born in Germany in 1260.
He became most probably a victim to inquisition of the churches in 1328.
"Some people, do surrender to God, and know whatever God gives to them, it is the best for them.
Is it illness, poverty, hunger, thirst now or what ever God gives to us or doesn't give, that is the best.
And is it that we have neither prayers nor inwardness, just take it as God’s gift, and it is the best for us.
Then remember these people Jesus chased away, who bought and sold in the forecourt of the temple.
Who were these people?
Shopkeeper and coin changer!
See, all these are shopkeeper and coin changer, who keep away of rough sins do their good works to the honour of God. But do it for the seek of return. These are merchants. Shopkeeper and coin changer!
This has to be understood in the rough sense.
Because they give something and want something else. They bargain with our Lord.
And don't take what God gives them, unless it is the best for them.
If we surrender to our fate, and don’t bargain with God, we will get the power of God because it is a power of the mind.
It’s been called a castle of the soul or a hut of the spirit but it’s free of all names and pictures.
In this strength the father gives birth to the son also in us and is inherent in us.
Fertile and flourishing with his whole divinity.
That is how we want to live.
That is the truth we want to receive.
Help us God to reach this goal!"
Master Eckhard was born in Germany in 1260.
He became most probably a victim to inquisition of the churches in 1328.