[Buddha-l] Eckhart and Buddhism - general question

[Richard Hayes]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:27:57 EDT, Jackhat1 at aol.com wrote:

> My favorite Eckhart quote is, you have to bust through 
>God to get to God.  
> To me, it is very Buddhist.

It is also reminiscent of the anonymous English mystical 
text, The Cloud of Unknowing. The whole premiss of that 
wonderful book is that the only way to find God is to 
forget everything you think God might be. Forget 
scripture, forget theology, forget philosophy. This, I 
think, is exactly what Buddhists such as Nāgārjuna and 
Dignāga were advocating in their thoroughgoing attempts to 
show the inadequacy of inference, interpreted sensory 
experience and anything mediated through language. Of 
course Buddhists who thought like that made more orthodox 
Buddhists every bit as nervous as Meister Eckhart made 
dogmatic Christians.

Richard