A non-attached heart

(transcription of an audio note)

I read a page of Gérard Pilet this morning, in which something is written that invites us to consider emptiness and detachment with an equal sign in between.

emptiness = detachment.

At first, I don’t understand much.
Then, I recall a word from Meister Eckart. He said that God had no choice but to giveHimself to a detached heart. I wonder why an attached heart could not receive God.

Probably because an attached heart is a busy heart. Focused, anxious in a more or less acute way.
A detached heart is a heart without a business, in Taoist language, a heart of non-doing.
That is to say, a consciousness anchored, invested, settled, rested in non-doing.
A consciousness that makes a heart free of all occupation, an empty heart.

Emptiness = freedom.

Not a freedom to be an idiot. Listening to people who claim freedom is like listening to people being proud of their status as slaves.
Meister Eckhart said that God cannot help but give himself to a detached heart, a free heart, a vacant heart.

A consciousness rooted in non-doing is in itself an expression of divinity.
We could say that it is a great suffering to work towards detachment.

To push things further, we could say that this suffering is a liberating suffering.
What we call suffering here is a process of liberation.
What we call a process of liberation is a process of awakening.

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