[Buddha-l] Eckhart and Buddhism - general question

[Michael Paris]

  Eckart was a Stoic? Neoplatonist (Christian, anyway), certainly.


For that matter, how can one be a Stoic and Neoplatonist at the 
same time?


Michael



On 7/3/2010 9:48 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
> Op 02-07-10 22:42, Kansei　還西 schreef:
>> But seriously, I quite agree with you, 還西. There have always been
>> people scattered around here and there who have see what sticky messes
>> we all get into when we go around putting labels on things. It is the
>> fate of such people that everyone puts labels on them.
>> don't be too serious about it, I guess they can manage it. Joke aside,
>> agreed, labels can create a lot of mess as we can see everyday.
> One misunderstanding is about nothingness or emptiness. Since Eckehart
> was a stoic neoplatonist his no being or nothingness is another word for
> everything, it is the absence of differences, the fullness of being, it
> is nirguṇa brahman and not Śūnyatā. It is easy to make him appear like a
> Buddhist, but I´m not sure that this would have pleased him.
>
> erik
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