Mooi!
Zo zie ik het ook, helemaal.
Na een Boeddhistische vertaalslag zouden Eckharts woorden als volgt kunnen klinken:
Ben je vol van (je-)zelf, dan is de Boeddhanatuur volledig verdrongen naar de achtergrond. Ben je leeg van (je-)zelf dan is wat overblijft de Boeddhanatuur. Boeddhanatuur is van niemand, het is niet meer in een Boeddha, dan in een mens als jij en ik aanwezig. In een Boeddha is er gewoon geen zelf meer die het blijft bedekken. En nemen wij die bedekking weg, al is het maar voor heel even, dan proeven we van de Boeddhanatuur, al is het maar voor heel even.
Hoi Dorje,
Een belangrijk begrip in Eckharts preken is
human nature, menselijke natuur.
Enkele quotes uit zijn preken:
-God not only became man, but he took on human nature. The masters agree in saying that all men are equally noble by nature. But I say in truth, all the goodness that all the saints have possessed, and Mary, God's mother, and Christ according to his humanity -that is my own in this nature. (13b)
-Now since all his nobility belongs equally to us all and is equally near to us, why do we not receive equally? Ah, this you must understand! Whoever wants to come to this giving so as to receive this good equally, to receive that human nature which is common and equally close to all men, then, j ust as in human nature nothing is strange and nothing is further or nearer, so it is necessary that you should make no distinction in the family of men, not being closer to yourself than to another. You must love all men equally, respect and regard them equally, and whatever happens to another, whether good or bad, must be the same as if it happened to you. (13a)
-The masters declare that human nature has nothing to do with time, being wholly unshakable and much more inward and close to a man than he is to himself. That is why God took on human nature and united it with his own Person. Then human nature became God, for he put on bare human nature and not any man. Therefore, if you want to be the same Christ and God, go out of all that which the eternal Word did not assume. The eternal Word did not put on a human being, and so, go out of whatever is a human being in you and whatever you are, and take yourself just as bare human nature, and then you will be the same to the eternal Word as human nature is to him. For between your human nature and his there is no difference: it is one, for it is in Christ what it is in you. (preek 92)
Uit een inleiding op zijn preken: Human nature is universal, and so is not the property of individual man. Christ therefore became man, not a man. There is therefore a real sense in which man can become Christ, or God.
en...It is possible for Christ to be born in any man's soul because human nature is one, and is therefore the same in Christ as in every man. Of course this birth of Christ does not in fact occur in every human soul, but the potentiality is there. It is only necessary to create the right conditions.
Deze menselijke natuur is dus ook ondeelbaar. (preek 47)
Eckhart ziet het wel zo dat met de geboorte van Jezus op Aarde de menselijke natuur verheft (is dat een woord?:-) is, goddelijk geworden, als het ware.
Heel mooi, (ik denk dat dit jou ook aanspreekt) vind ik dit: The eternal Word did not put on a human being,
and so, go out of whatever is a human being in you and whatever you are, and take yourself just as bare human nature, and then you will be the same to the eternal Word as human nature is to him.
Dus, zie jezelf niet als een mens (identificeer je niet met de vijf khandha's). Dan ben je zeg maar vanzelf de naakte menselijke natuur (boeddha-natuur?)
