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"""In whatever way you find God most, and you are most aware of God, that is the way you should follow. But if another way presents itself, quite contrary to the first, and if, having abandoned the first way, you find God as much in the new way as in the one you left, then that is right. But, the noblest and best thing would be this: if a person were to come to such equality, with such calm andcertainty that one could find and enjoy God in any way and in all things, without having to wait for anything or chase after anything: that would delight me!... Every work helps towards this. If anything does not help towards this, you should let it go."" With these words Meister Eckhart set out to Avignon to defend himself from Pope John XXII who seemed to have set up two tribunals to inquire into the case of heresy. After his death Eckhart was largely forgotten but he gained recent revival from nondualist spiritual teachers who have based their own teaching on Eckhart's sermons."

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Eckhart is considered by some to have been the inspirational layman referred to in Johannes Tauler's and Rulman Merswin's later writings in Strasbourg where he is known to have spent time (although it is doubtful that he authored the simplistic Book of the Nine Rocks published by Merswin and attributed to the layman knight from the north). On the other hand, most scholars consider the layman to be a pure fiction invented by Merswin to hide his authorship because of the intimidating tactics of the Inquisition at the time.

"Eckhart is considered by some to have been the inspirational ""layman"" referred to in Johannes Tauler's and Rulman Merswin's later writings in Strasbourg where he is known to have spent time (although it is doubtful that he authored the simplistic ""Book of the Nine Rocks"" published by Merswin and attributed to the layman knight from the north). On the other hand, most scholars consider the ""layman"" to be a pure fiction invented by Merswin to hide his authorship because of the intimidating tactics of the Inquisition at the time."

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