What Exactly Does ‘Soul’ Mean in This Teaching?

You never spoke about the soul before, and now you do in the meditations in relation to Meister Eckhart. Many people have completely different interpretations of ‘soul’. Some say it’s the mind, some say it’s an extension of the mind, some say it’s being. Could you clarify? Rupert says: ‘You could say the soul is the mind in the broadest sense of the term. Meister Eckhart divides the soul into two aspects – what he calls the powers – and that’s what I call the faculties of thought and perception. But your mind isn’t just its faculties. It is also what Meister Eckhart calls its ground, which, in the context of this week, we would call it our being, but you could also call it consciousness. The mind is consciousness plus the content of experience.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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