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Thursday, August 11, 2005

埃克哈特大師 談 時間

年輕時讀雜書,總會碰到“Meister Eckhart.”因為諸如鈴木大拙介紹禪(In the 20th century Eckhart's thoughts have been compared to Eastern mystics by both Rudolf Otto and D.T. Suzuki鈴木大拙, among other scholars.)


Eck·hart also Eck·art or Eck·ardt (讀因兩種:ĕk'härt', -ärt'), Johannes (Known as “Meister Eckhart.”) 1260?–1327?.
German theologian regarded as the founder of mysticism in Germany. His influential works concern the union of the individual soul with God.
http://www.answers.com/eckhart

譬如說:「榮格(Jung)與中世紀基督教的神秘主義大師埃克哈特(Eckhart)和密宗大師們的意識相 匯合。」
埃克哈特大師是德國有史以來最深刻和影響最廣泛的思想家之一。 ... 埃克哈特大師無論是闡述深奧的哲學和神學思辯,還是對《聖經》進行詮釋,乃至於在平時生活和獻身 ...」

「据說埃克哈特大師早就說過的話;“我真的需要上帝,但是上帝也需要我。”」

現在我們有其著作之翻譯可參考:
『埃克哈特大師文集』榮震華譯, 北京:商務印書館2003

他的一些經常被引用之句:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/meister_eckhart.html

昨天讀 呂迪格爾.薩弗蘭斯基 著『海德格爾傳—來自德國的大師』靳希平譯,北京: 商務印書館,1999

Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rudiger Safranski, N Person - Trans. E. Osers. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1998
傳主在取得教師資格(habilitation ; 參考說明:http://www.answers.com/topic/habilitation?method=6

題詞採用埃克哈特大師名言,根據英文本,中文翻譯有兩問題:

「時間就是變化、多樣性,永恆性則只是保持。」(p.94)
Time is that which changes and turns manifold; eternity stays simple.

(底下所謂尼采之言【應是其朋友之言】更是整句都有問題…….)

Meister Eckhart 談時間
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.