Simplicity: Meister Eckhart on Detachment
Teaching on Simplicity from Meister Eckhart: Meister Eckhart on Detachment
This is a spiritual discipline on detachment and freedom, drawing on Matthew 16:24-25, Philippians 3:7-8 and Colossians 3:2.
Meister Eckhart (d. 1328), the German Dominican mystic, taught that detachment (Abgeschiedenheit) is the supreme virtue -- even greater than love or humility. He wrote: "I have read much writing of both pagan masters and prophets, of the Old and the New Testament, and I have sought earnestly to find the best and highest virtue by which man can most fully unite himself with God.…
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