Smith Cyprian: Put paradoksa

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Put paradoksa

Smith Cyprian

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Cyprian Smith: The Way of Paradoxes

The aim of this book is very simple. She tries to express, clearly and comprehensibly, the main elements of Eckhart's teachings on spiritual life so that modern people can understand and use them. […] Although Eckhart was condemned in his time and almost completely forgotten in the following centuries, he never completely disappeared from view, and in the last hundred years, interest in him has steadily grown and reached its peak in our time when he finally fully resurfaced in the light of day. His lyrics have a unique charm and appeal, which not only attracts a large, but also a diverse circle of people. Protestants and Catholics, believers and unbelievers, Buddhists and Hindus, not to mention the great expert on the human mind, the psychologist C. G. Jung - they all felt Eckhart's magnetism and responded to it, each in his own way. There is something about it that appeals to modern people; there is some widespread need that he seems capable of responding to. -Cyprian Smith

The method of opening the "eye of wisdom" through paradoxes and conflicting oppositions will remind many of Zen; and, indeed, there is a certain similarity, although Eckhart's way is completely Christian, based on the mystery of the cross and resurrection in which the perception of unity in the conflict of opposites is realized to the highest degree. Nevertheless, the brightness and lightness in Eckhart are reminiscent of Zen. In addition, the purpose of the paradox is the same in both cases: the purpose is not to deny or destroy the human mind with nonsense, but to bring the normal human intellect to the awareness of its own limits and thereby open it to the possibility of a higher type of knowledge. If we accept this, and if we follow Eckhart on his path of paradox, we will gain some insight into the knowledge he possessed.

Cyprian Smith was born in 1937. He studied French literature and music and taught at Queen's University in Belfast. From 1968 to 1972, he lived in Brazil, where he taught at the Conservatory of Music, and then, after a long stay in the Ampleforth Benedictine Abbey, he was ordained as a Benedictine in 1979. The book Path of Paradox was published in 1987 and was quickly recognized as an insightful introduction to the character and work of Meister Eckhart. Cyprian Smith died in 2019.

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