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[tree_and_leaf]

Half-listening to Leonard Cohen while reading about Eckhart's theology of emptiness and freedom is a very confusing experience: it goes together almost too well, to the point that you end up half convinced that Eckhart wrote "Like a Bird on a Wire" or argued that it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken hallelujah.

ETA: If you translated 'There's nothing in the world that's pure enough to be a cure for love' into Middle High German, that definitely does sound like mysticism, albeit more like Mechthild - it's got too many erotic overtones to be Eckhart!

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

You have inspired me to put on some Leonard Cohen, but the only track I have is 'Hallelujah', so that has been on repeated play while I've been having lunch.

[tree_and_leaf]

If you say that round dr_biscuit, she'll probably lend you numerous CDs...

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I'll have to!

[twa-in-yin.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm here from oursin's lj. I first read that as "Half-listening to Leonard Cohen talking about reading Eckhart's theology".

I swear my first reaction was "Where is that?!!! MUST!!! HAVE!!!"

[tree_and_leaf]

Alas, no - though it would be fascinating (and not totally beyond the bounds of possibility, given how much interest there is in Eckhart from a Buddhist perspective).

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Because I'm just that sort of person:

Es ist zu dîser welt enkain ding, so rein genug ist, minnes heilsame zu sîn?

[tree_and_leaf]

daz ez minne enheilen mac, I think, but not bad....