tathatā / is-ness / suchness / talidade

Articles

• Suzuki : God and Being
  11 mars, par Cardoso de Castro

  Original
  Being is God. . . . God and being are the same—or God has being from another and thus himself is not God. . . . Everything that is has the fact of its being through being and from being. Therefore, if being is something different from God, a thing has its being from something other than God. Besides, there is nothing prior to being, because that which confers being creates and is a creator. To create is to give being out of nothing.
  Eckhart is quite frequently metaphysical and (...)

• Suzuki : God’s Image
  11 mars, par Cardoso de Castro

  Original
  When God made man, he put into the soul his equal, his active, everlasting masterpiece. It was so great a work that it could not be otherwise than the soul and the soul could not be otherwise than the work of God. God’s nature, his being, and the Godhead all depend on his work in the soul. Blessed, blessed be God that he does work in the soul and that he loves his work ! That work is love and love is God. God loves himself and his own nature, being and Godhead, and in the love he (...)