Colin & Simon

Performance research blog detailing collaboration between choreographers Colin Poole and Simon Ellis

Jul 26

Some thoughts from Gabrielle Eastwood-Ellis

“In his amazing book, “The Zen of Seeing”, Franck quotes Meister Eckhart, the 13th century mystic:

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”

It is not surprising that  this simple and loving expression of God has common ground in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Franck tells us that this ‘eye’ of Eckhart is the ‘Buddha Eye’ in the East and ‘the Endless Eye’ in the Upanishads.”

Actually that quote from Eckhart is a great one as it does away completely with any sense of dualism - something that people struggle with and have struggled with  especially since the Greeks got involved.

You need to consider the apophatic way - the via negativa in which mystics insist that a way of saying what God is by saying all the things God is not. By not seeking God through knowledge one learns to live within this cloud of unknowing.


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