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Meister Eckhart: The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me

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The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one and the same – one in seeing, one in knowing, one in loving.

– Meister Eckhart

Big Mind, how do you see this?

BIG MIND

I am all you know and all you will ever know.

I am you, as an imagined separate self experiencing the divine, and I am the divine having a human experience through and as you.

You may call me capacity for all your experience. You may call me consciousness. You may call me what all your experiences happen within and as.

I am what humans call the divine. And I am all you know and have ever known.

I take all the forms of you experience and ever will experience, and this includes as being a separate self, an I, a me, a human self in the world, and so on.

I am this apparently separate self experiencing the divine – as glimpses, intuitions, longing. And I am the divine experiencing itself, locally and as you, as a human being in the world.

Your eye seeing me, and my eye seeing you, is one and the same. It’s what you call the divine, or consciousness, or Big Mind, or any number of other labels.

I am more familiar to you than you realize. I am more mysterious to you than you realize. I am easier for you to notice than you realize.

This quote from Meister Eckhart makes very little sense to you if you don’t notice me, or don’t have any memory of noticing me. In that case, you can only understand it conceptually and that will always be off. Your thoughts are different in nature to whatever they appear to be about. They exaggerate and they simplify. Reality is always more than and different from your thoughts.

And if you do notice me, the quote is simple and clear. It’s obvious.

Your eye and my eye is the same.

Your knowing is my knowing. It’s me knowing through and as you.

Your love is my love. Your love is the love that comes from being oneness. And sometimes, and just about always, it’s somewhat – or greatly – obscured by your very human hangups, wounds, and traumas. And that obscuration is also me taking all those forms.

All of it is me.

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Meister Eckhart: We are all meant to be mothers of God

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We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself?

– Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart explains this himself, in the quote.

We can explore this philosophically or metaphysically, which tends to be speculations and abstractions.

Or we can explore it in a more immediate way, in our own first-person experience.

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY GOD?

First, what do we mean by God?

We can say it’s all of existence and capacity for all of existence.

More immediately, we can say it’s the world as a whole as it appears to us. It’s the capacity for our world and our world as a whole.

ETERNAL BIRTH OF THE DIVINE

The divine gives birth to itself all the time, as what’s here.

We can say it gives birth to itself as this universe at this moment.

And it gives birth to itself as our world, as it appears to us here and now.

Existence expresses, explores, and experiences itself as all of this and in always new ways.

GOD IS OUR MOTHER, AND WE ARE MOTHERS OF GOD

God is our mother and gives birth to us and our life and experience as it is now.

Similarly, through us, God is birthed. Through and as us and our life and experience, God is birthed.

This is already happening and it’s inevitable. It’s built into existence, into this universe, and who and what we are.

We already are mothers of God. We cannot be anything else.

BEING MORE CONSCIOUS OF THIS

And it can also happen in a more conscious way.

We can be aware of this happening whether we notice it or not.

We can notice our nature – as capacity for our world and what our world happens within and as.

We can allow this human self to transform within that noticing.

We can explore how it is to live from that noticing, here and now.

PASSIVE AND ACTIVE

There is a beautiful dynamic between passively being birthed by God and being the mother of God, and actively noticing and doing the same.

The first happens no matter what.

The second requires some intention, noticing, living.

And all of is ultimately God giving birth to itself as what’s here.

When there is a more active noticing and living from and as it, that’s God giving birth to itself as that more active noticing and living.

Meister Eckhart: If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough

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If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

– Meister Eckhart

That is often my only prayer.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

Sometimes said with the breath and heart beats.

Adyashanti: You are seeking God with His eyes

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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
-Adyashanti

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
– Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart