Showing posts with label Meister Eckhart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meister Eckhart. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Indeterminacy 84


There was a lady
in
Suzuki’s class

who said
once,


“I have great
difficulty
reading the sermons
of
Meister Eckhart,


because

of all the Christian imagery.”


Dr. Suzuki said,


“That difficulty will disappear.”

- John Cage

Monday, April 20, 2009

Indeterminacy 146



While Meister Eckhart was
alive, several
attempts were made to
excommunicate him.

(He had,
in his sermons,
said such
things as “Dear God,
I beg
you to rid me of God.”)

None of the trials
against him was successful,
for on
each occasion he defended
himself brilliantly.

However, after
his death,
the attack was continued.

Mute, Meister
Eckhart was excommunicated.

- John Cage