Analysis Of The Heart Sutra By Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart’s sermons talks about how the person lives in eternity, attachment with god, external and internal poverty. In the Heart Sutra it says that form is emptiness and emptiness is a form. It is based the control over the senses and the mind. The two works describe a different spiritual path. In Heart Sutra, the spiritual path occurs through control over the senses. In Eckhart’s sermons, the spiritual path occurs through attachment to God.
The Heart Sutra is the practice and perfection of wisdom. “There are the five skandhas: form, sensations, perceptions, memory, and consciousness. They are how we are aware. Form is the solid object. For example a hot stove. Sensation is the act of the sense contacting the object. The skin feels, …show more content…

The just person lives in God and god lives in him or her. If you set a particular goal or aim of your work then all your work will be spoiled including your good works even if your goal is God (145). If you wish to live and wish your work to live too then you must be dead to all things and be reduced to nothing (146). Meister Eckhart states, “When a person is free of ego- attachment and remain free and empty in this present moment for the most precious will of God then he would be a virgin just as certainly as he was before he existed” (203). Meister Eckhart explains two kinds of poverty. One is external which is good and praiseworthy in those who willingly practice it for love of our Lord Jesus Christ and another is internal poverty which is referred to our Lord when he says “blessed are the poor in spirit” (203).A materially poor person who seeks God through voluntary material poverty alone is one is who clings to his own ego in external devotions which such people regard as greater importance. As long as you have the will to perform God’s will and desire of eternity and for God, you are not yet poor in spirit. We should live for truth or for God. We should be free of self-knowledge and sense that God lives in our …show more content…

Meister Eckhart sermons give the way towards God by way of practice. Heart sutra stressed on controlling senses to reach the God and (Meister Eckhart says that a just person lives in God and God lives in him or her). Every work done for justice gives joy to god. Similarly Heart sutra talks about perfection of wisdom. The Heart sutra instructs in the achieving is a form of enlightenment and it states practices for not being taking or over taken by the senses or the skandhas so that we can find enlightenment. Meister Eckhart also says when a person is free of an ego- attachment and remained free and empty in this present moment for the most precious will of God then he would be a virgin just as certainly as he was before he existed. Both teachings tells us to be free of characteristics.
Eckhart’s philosophy stressed the divinity of man. He frequently referred to the spiritual connection between man’s soul and God. Eckhart taught the importance of making the mind quiet to be receptive to the presence of God. While Heart Sutra based on Buddha’s most profound teaching. Heart sutra is about practicing to reach a peaceful state. The early lines of the sutra discuss the five skandhas -- form, sensations, perceptions, memory, and consciousness. The bodhisattva has seen that the skandhas are empty, and thus has been freed from suffering. The heart sutra is about gaining

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