Sugrue.. the man.. the myth.. the legend.

Meister Surgure -- the man whom philosophy hid nothing

I have read all of Meister Eckhardt's writings repeatedly and I cannot imagine anyone even coming close to Sugrue's penetrating introduction. What a gift!

Been watching one of your lectures at least once a day and it's been much more productive and meaningful during my free time. Thank you so very much for your public domain contribution professor with these deep lectures.

I feel guilty watching the next lecture without reading Eckhart's work, which is an indication of a gifted teacher. Thank you

❤ 13.06 ❤. The word that I couldn't come up with to describe you, sir speaker; "magnetism" . You are a magnet to anyone who is looking for friends but does not have the skills to do so at a party you have organised for the purpose. In this case, the previous men on this earth that we today admire their deep thoughts and inspiration etcetre. You are now also gone, having listened to their messages and then linking us to them by breaking it down the way you do 😢 . As a woman, I thank God for you, late Dallas Willard, my ex-husband, late Jiddu Krishnamurti, my late my father, and Ayn Rand for teaching me how to think.

These lectures are amazing. Started with Nietzsche and now I’ve watched every single lecture multiple times!

He couldn't have chosen a better quote to finish the lecture. A gift he was, Dr. Sugrue.

Love has no why because true love is unconditional.

Let's not to forget to thank the Teaching Company for bringing us these people. Sugrue, Stalloff, Roderick, Daniel Robinson.

Thank you professor. Never heard of this man before. What a great lecture and addition to my puny intellect. Bless you professor 👨‍🏫 👏🏻👏🏻

On wanting to understand Meister Eckhart on a deeper level I found this presentation so highly polished that my curiosities were absorbed after replaying the video in some areas. I want to learn more about him now. I have a religious cult 'knocking on my door' and need to be clear to myself about the meaning of my own inner scintilla (new word for me) so a huge thank you to Sugru 🙏

So you also make difficult things look easy, thence you are a great artist and enormously charismatic 😊 What a beautiful lecture! Thanks Dr Sugrue.

What astounds me is Dr. Sugrue's range of ideas, how in-depth he can speak of these things, as is evident from the backlog of uploads recently--he can go from Plato to the Bible, to world literature to "out-of-the-way" writers like Meister Eckhart. In that way he's like an encyclopedia of human knowledge and wisdom.

This was utterly fantastic! Thank you, Professor Sugrue. Perhaps you hear our thanks wherever you are. Many of your great lectures helped open a door to a whole new world for me. Life was so dull and meaningless. Over the last couple years I have read most of the books that you went over in these lectures. It has been life changing.

Wonderful. I was reminded that even Aquinas had a mystical side. But we need both Eckhart and Aquinas.

Big thanks to Michael Sugrue for repeatedly explaining what a metaphor is. Truly groundbreaking presentation.

. Thank you professor, we hold you on the highest respect.

Meister Eckhart becomes easier to understand when you realize he means consciousness when he talks about God or the Godhead. His message is: loose the idea of self because it is an illusion. You have done that many, many times, effortless, every time you woke up from a dream. But somehow you are convinced that the self you experience when you are awake is real. Consider the possibility that you might be wrong. As soon as you realize that you are in a dream, your perspective shifts and your attention turns to what you really are, consciousness. It is like waking up out of a dream but this time you wake up into the dream.

These videos might be the greatest education I've ever received. Thank you.

ive listened to all his lectures and this one to me is his most inspiring. The lack of definition becomes a playground of ideas and reflections. I spent hours driving around thinking about how many of my perceptions and assumptions have been held in my mind as foolish absolutisms. so humbling

This is maybe the most interesting Chanel which I found in years.

1. Love has no why 2. Divine nature has no name 3. Soul bursting Grateful ❤

I've watched this man's lectures over the years and I keep coming back to his guy. Love his presentation style, ideas, and the way he is obviously excited to speak about these fascinating topics. Thanks for making these available to the public, I really enjoy them.

Thank you again, professor.

Sugrue is one of the best lecturers I have ever heard. I realize he had at least some outline and practice, but you can tell his mind is honed to a point sharp enough to just slice off his knowledge one piece at a time and deliver it flawlessly to his audience. He is the epitome of excellence as it pertains to ascertaining a deep knowledge and being able to access and articulate it in an fascinating and riveting manner.

I first became interested in this in graduate school after reading two books by Walter Stace which kindled the fire in me...Time and Eternity and Mysticism and Philosophy. Michael has rekindled the ashes of that fire....

Poetic metaphor: informs beyond language. Thank you Dr Sugrue for bringing us all this thought: so coherent and connected !!

Your fathers insight into people is still just as keen as ever. He was right, this is exactly what I needed.

This man is amazing. Through his dedicated studies of great human beings, he arrives “there” himself.

This didn't resonate with me like I'd hoped but that final quote made it all worthwhile.

What a ending… standing ovation

Dr. Sugrue's hair on this one is simply amazing

most impressive teacher i've ever encountered. his speaking style and confidence remind me of steve jobs

yo! Yo! YO! an academic into mysticism, speaking in front of an audience... what a memory!

This is perhaps the finest introduction to Meister Eckhart and Medieval Christian mysticism that I have come across. Thank you, Professor, for these excellent videos.

Bravo! Thank you, Dr. Sugrue, and thank you Meister Eckhardt! Very stimulating and inspiring.

Prof Sugrue, you are a gem. Thank you sir.

This sounds very Neoplatonic. Oh my, that closing quote is so powerful.

This is a piece of knowledge. A truly lesson to understand words. Thanks again Dr Sugrue.

God is a word that speaks for itself!! Master and maestro of the words, thanks professor..

THANK YOU! This is such a moving and illuminating lecture.

A beautiful lecture. Thank you.

Thanks for another good lecture looking forward to many more.

14:42 is the best😇

"Let me see if I can explain to you some of the details of his unsystematic theology in as systematic a way as it allows for." (19:42) A great formulation of the challenge of talking about many wisdom traditions.

Thank you so very much!

"They take the way , rather than God", the line is too good.

I don't know if the good doctor actually manages this channel, but if you do, please know you have my deepest gratitude for all of this. I came looking to have petty questions answered and you gave me the gift of better questions. God bless you.

Oh Man, I intend to watch 1 lecture video out of curiosity and now I can’t stop watching ALL!

This is a great video one of the best so far of this great mystic thank you

I can listen to this over and over again, this mark's my third or fourth time.

Outstanding.

I'd love to hear you talk some more about Meister Eckhart nowadays, seems like the interpretation of this type of stuff would develop throughout life.

Thank You!

Wonderful lecture. ❤

Wonderful lecture

Thank you.

I watch your videos because i like them .

Very grateful for these. RIP

14:10 Started reading the Bible from the beginning and I am so proud that I understood that reference

"You should not confine yourself to just one matter of devotion, since god is to be found in no particular way. That is why they do him wrong who take god in just one particular way, they take the way rather than god." - Meister Eckhart's defence

Great lecture!

Thank you

Meister Eckhart is basically describing Buddhism/Adveita Vedanta philosophy/religion in western religion terms. He is pointing to the inner you, to the same consciousness in all of us and links that with the God Head. " When you are one with God, you will ask nothing from this world." - this is basically Ego dissolution and enlightment. It is the same truth in every religion just described differently.

U have talent at communicating. Rare gift. More power to you. I have heard several of your talks. Given the clarity of your mind one can prophecy that should u decide to partake in the divine totality of ALL ,you will have an easy access.take a leap.there is only one consciousness. That is what we call god. U penetrate others’ minds so well. Penetrate your own and follow ‘that’ that is examining your mind. That is your consciousness that is no other than god. 🔔☯️🆒🥂📢🙈🙊🙉😇

Blown away

44:02 Wow. Just wow.

Thank you Professor Sugrue for this wonderful lecture. I was born some 88 years ago in Germany to Catholic parents. The first lecture by you I heard was on Nietzsche, and I realized that Nietzsche and I had the same reaction to Christianity. I did not study philosophy but I liked certain of his aphorisms, like : "Den Himmel überlassen wir den Engeln und den Spatzen." I liked it especially, because I could always get a rise out of my mother by reciting it. Coming back to Meister Eckhart, he is also known to have written "it is a lie, all talk of God that is not comforting." What I heard growing up in the Catholic church was so comforting that once I got away from my parents, I decided to never put foot into another church. Eventually I found Buddhism and the Unitarian Universalist church--but I don't take them as a religion. About 20 or so years ago, a friend gave me "Meister Eckeharts Schriften", which she had inherited from her parents. I started to read it, but found it very difficult and was just too lazy to continue. After hearing your lecture on Meister Eckhart a couple of times, I thought: "Meister Eckhart's god is a god I might actually be able to believe in." It seems to me that the orthodox Christian leaders ripped god out of our souls and put him on a throne in heaven where we might meet him after our death if we did everything that these authorities told us to do. I find your talk of Meister Eckhart's god comforting; in fact, it's the most comforting thing I can find online these days. I've been pretty much a "logic-chopping" creature all my life with no room for mysticism or other-worldly stuff (see Nietzsche above) but you are truly inspirational. "Hearing god clearing his throat" is the best way of dealing with the fact that we want to talk about god, but our language is inadequate to deal with divine matters. We do need to find a way to say that without using "his". And here is my idea for what the "why" for love is: it feels good, that's why. I also thought very early in your lecture that Meister Eckhart was a Buddhist. The idea of emptying oneself out and that when one realizes union with god there is nothing more that we want suggests very much the Buddhist idea that we accept what is. I also believe that Meister Eckhart promoted the idea that we have the power and should be active in uniting with god's will rather than just praying for it and waiting for god to act. Thank you again; I will continue to listen to your lecture when I need comforting.

Most Excellent. Sehr Gut!

Metaphor and the use of symbols is a means by which the the conscious communicates with the unconscious, also as in the case of dreams.

My man🙏

6.40, 'Love has no why' 😂 This lecture here has made me reflect on a short story that I recently read by Somerset Maugham. Here Sir M Sadgrue emphasizes on the use of language and fir those of us who went to scool and spent a lot of time repelling learning it turns out the that was place to learn about the use of language and how. SM's book Colonel's Lady, is eventuality about a wife who uses poetry to write a masterpiece story on his love affair 10 years ago. The publisher has dispatched the author six coppies and the husband is asked to read one by the wife who has surprising written a book a characteristicfar from the image the husband has settled for in his head about his wife. He makes no head or tails from the poetry used to write it. He later to avoid discussions declares the book good to the auther. It turns out to be a successful book and I wont ruin it for for but why I am tickled by spirit of "poetry. and love has no why" will make sense" ❤ I was forced to learn english at school but now I do leap the fruits. So much eglish literature to live on good and bad but all portraying man.

Anybody have access to Dr. Sugrue’s lectures on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard? Hoping he posts them here, I’d be willing to purchase... they were on KZfaq once but have been deleted. I love this man’s brain!

GENIUS

I love these lectures, but he talks too fast for my poor brain to keep up. So I started playing at 75% speed. Now it's just right and I can keep up with all these amazing new ideas.

love love

Appreciate the talk. Meister Eckhart's Poor Man's sermon is....mind blowing. "Consciousness is taxation without representation. " -- Sri Baba Ganoush

I can be seen through my eye.

“Finger pointing at the moon” - you ask to see God (moon). He is there, luminous, ready to be seen. The mystic’s words are the finger - as long as you fixate on the finger, you will not see the moon. The finger is but to gesture where to look for yourself.

I really enjoyed your talk. The words I don't tend to like are theology and thinking or reasoning. This is the western way, but they, as you indicate, can only point at God at best. I used to pride myself on my ability to reason and think about things. I have had a moment of grace and all this changed in me. And as you indicate, it is nearly impossible to share this. I would say think of reasoning or theology as a pole vaulter thinks of the pole. It is very helpful up to a point, but one must let go of it to actually clear the bar.

It's a window to the Soul

I've experienced some seriously weird shit, and words always fail me when I try to describe these things.

That which is beyond our words casts a shadow over them.

Thank you for introducing me to Meister Eckhart. I will give him a good reading. I suspect I have a better understanding of what is suggesting as the difference between god and Godhead... but, expect I will be equally mystified by the end of the reading... ha.

I think the Godhead's relationship to God is analogous to Plato's form of the good and the demiurge. It sounds a lot like the One in Neoplatonism, the Tao in Taoism, and Brahman in Hinduism.

Identity, simile, metaphor. Meaningful nonsense. Really lovely lecture Dr. Sugrue. Thank you.

Wow👏👏👏🎬

8:18 to 10:21... If Eckhart says that man should ask for Nothing, and he says that Nothing is the Godhead, then that's just asking for the Godhead Himself. Take everything from man and only the Godhead remains, and that's all one could ever ask for. May God shine upon your soul.

The final sentence is just 500 IQ. Truly beyond language

Sugr Mike

Wow.

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

Sometimes you think you have a pretty good brain and then you listen to Dr. Sugrue...

Do you have a specific translation you recommend for Meister Eckhart's work?

"You can take the man out of religion but you can't take the religion out of man" --Mark Twain

Eckhart's statement that the Godhead is the Ground of Pure Being is identical to Shankara's (788-820) Advaita Vedanta. There's God the Creator (Ishwara), and God the Transcendental, Immanent Essence of the universe, what Spinoza called Substance. This Essence is Pure Consciousness "In-Itself". It's directly experiential using nondual meditation methods and various mantras used by the ancient Buddhists and Hindus Not much can be said about "IT", but Shankara uses the terms Sat, Chit, and Ananda or Truth, Consciousness, Bliss. (Aristotle's "Being-In-Itself").

Jesus - so much to learn about God.

I have no problem doing it.

The reason LOVE has no WHY, is that LOVE, belongs to Bodennehmen or the threefold ground Stiften, Bodennehmen, and Begründen; Begründen is the place of the why and the place of the fourfold or the four causes. Read the treaties "On the Essence of Ground" by Martin Heidegger. Heidegger Loves Eckhart.