Empty of Things, Full of God

Let's delve into the understanding of God's presence and our being. God's presence shines within us as our naked being before it gets entangled in experience. As we sink into pure being, it gradually sheds the limitations tied to experience, revealing itself as infinite being, the sole reality. Meister Eckhart suggests that being empty of things is to be full of God. Surrendering to God, from a separate self's perspective, places the finite in the right relation to the infinite. Going further, we realise that to devote or surrender oneself to God implies separation from God, which is ultimately blasphemous. Consider the example of Claire, who knows herself as 'I' rather than her name 'Claire'. Similarly, God does not know itself as God but as pure being. The term 'God' only arises from a second-person perspective. When we understand this, the separate self and God both vanish, leaving only the pure, undivided reality.

Let's delve into the understanding of God's presence and our being. God's presence shines within us as our naked being before it gets entangled in experience. As we sink into pure being, it gradually sheds the limitations tied to experience, revealing itself as infinite being, the sole reality. Meister Eckhart suggests that being empty of things is to be full of God. Surrendering to God, from a separate self's perspective, places the finite in the right relation to the infinite. Going further, we realise that to devote or surrender oneself to God implies separation from God, which is ultimately blasphemous. Consider the example of Claire, who knows herself as 'I' rather than her name 'Claire'. Similarly, God does not know itself as God but as pure being. The term 'God' only arises from a second-person perspective. When we understand this, the separate self and God both vanish, leaving only the pure, undivided reality.