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Meister Eckhart's Living Wisdom

Indestructible Joy and the Path of Letting Go

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Meister Eckhart's Living Wisdom

By: James Finley
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The Teachings of Meister Eckhart: An Invitation to Experience God in Every Moment

The 13th-century mystic Meister Eckhart was the most brilliant Christian scholar of his day, but he was also legendary for the way he opened listeners to the direct experience of God during his public talks. Today, his written wisdom remains alive as ever, ready to illuminate us. With Meister Eckhart's Living Wisdom, James Finley, one of today's best-known teachers of the Christian contemplative tradition, invites us into Eckhart's insights in the same way this luminary teacher delighted in sharing them - through the spoken word.

"The eye with which I see God is the eye with which God sees me."

If the Divine dwells in all things, including ourselves, then why do we experience His presence only in fleeting moments, if at all? How do we let go of the illusions that imprison us to discover direct and felt liberation - not conceptually or in the afterlife but right here and now? These were the questions that compelled Meister Eckhart to reflection, spiritual practice, and discovery.

In this in-depth learning program, James Finley guides us through teachings and meditations for bringing Meister Eckhart's wisdom into our daily lives - to find for ourselves "the indestructible joy that that transcends even death", and to experience God not as a separate being but as the loving eternal center that sustains and embraces each of us and all of creation.

©2014 James Finley (P)2014 James Finley Christianity Spirituality Wisdom

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So simple and yet so rich. The first time it flowed over me with just the ease of the sound of his voice but each time I’ve listened my heart understanding took in some of the wisdom.

Amazing

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At first I found this book hard, but I realised I just had to stop trying to understand and just listen. it all became clear. Incredible..

Brilliant intro to Meister Eckhart

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words fail me and touched me again and again and fills with gratitude

changing

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I loved this audiobook especially because Jim Finley narrates it himself and I find his voice so inviting and easy to listen to. I feel as though I’ve learnt so much during the course of listening but I couldn’t even begin to tell you what! Now I’m starting again. One of the standout phrases for me was/is: God does not exist, God is existence. I’ve ‘known’ this conceptually for a long time but Jim’s reading and teaching helped me to get it in my body for the first time. I’m so moved and so grateful. Needless to say, I highly recommend this audiobook!

Wonderful, Rich, Generous

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Very easy to identify with as far as that is achievable through James's interpretation. From start to end very very enjoyable.

Not knowing what I do understand sometimes

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The whole universe is a world out of God's eternal "inner work", means in Greek "energon"; it is not the act that God performs, it's a MUST to give itself away. The reality of a spatiotemporally closed codifications of energy-packets is an infinite arising out of God's poverty and infinite passing away into God's poverty! James Finley leads the listeners to the core of Master Eckhart's faith that understanding and infinite desire to ex-ist are already released in God's eternal Poverty, which 'i' prefer to call "Purity's eternal Love".

Divine Poverty: A released Ex-istence

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superb if not best exploration of this mystical work. a must hear for an awakened consciousness.

Nondualty

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Where does Meister Eckhart's Living Wisdom rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This isn't an easy exploration, but its profundity repays careful and repeated listenings. It touches on one's own most significant insights and deepens them.

What does James Finley bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

James Finlay is an understanding guide whose 'presence' through his voice is reassuring and has a lyrical quality that adds to the experience. One also feels in company rather than grappling with these challenging texts alone.

Any additional comments?

In the way that a great actor who really understands a difficult or archaic play can help you to do the same, I think James Finlay's own insights help to express those of Meister Eckhart.

demanding of total attention!

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loved it tho will need to listen more than once to really internalized its wisdom

With gratitude

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I've seen other reviews that decry this book as being too much of James Finley and not enough about Meister Eckhart, and if you came here for an audio version of Eckhart's work, then this isn't for you. It could do with a different title to reflect better what the book actually is. It's a bit like picking up what you thought was tea and finding that it's coffee: it takes you a while to find that as coffee goes, it's great, it's only if you thought it was tea that it tastes odd.

It really helps to know that James Finley is not just anyone: he was for many years a spiritual directee of Thomas Merton, as well as a psychotherapist, and author in his own right, and colleague/affiliate of Richard Rohr's Centre for Action and Contemplation. This audiobook is James Finley reflecting on Meister Eckhart's work (literally: he'll read a bit of Eckhart, then say "Let's take a moment to reflect on that.") Somewhere, he says that if you read Eckhart too quickly, it just becomes "words" and you miss what he is saying. This audiobook is a way of slowing down and reflecting. The reflections, in my view, are wonderful. They're not meant to be simple explanations of what Meister Eckhart is trying to say, they are "seeds of contemplation" that grow as you listen.

It matters that Finley's voice is rich, soothing and well-recorded here, so just the experience of listening to this is a pleasure, and a form of contemplation in itself, and that I think is the idea behind the book/talk. Finley describes Eckhart's sermons as "reverberations of language in the service of the unsayable," and the same is true of these reflections. I can see myself coming back to this many many times (as I have done already since I first listened).

A wonderful book that needs a different title

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