Meister Eckhart on the World-Shaping Power of an Equal Mind

The focus of this essay is Meister Eckhart's references in the sixth of his "Talks on Discernment" to having an "equal mind." This rather unassuming early metaphor foreshadows many of Eckhart's better-known teachings, such as the "just man," the "ground of the soul," and the "birth of God in the soul." The goal of the essay is to demonstrate the potential of the daily practice of an "equal mind" to transform one's view of the "other," and so to neutralize the ultimately and frighteningly destructive tendency in current discourse to polarize and divide.