Chapter XIV, Section 1a

Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.

The Buddha is described as 'trackless' and possessing 'unlimited knowledge,' transcending conventional categories.

Eckhart's Abgeschiedenheit/Gelassenheit — radical letting-go of will, image, and grasping that opens the soul to God; distinct from inner_silence (quietness) and from material renunciation, and adjacent to Sufi tark and Buddhist non-grasping as a practice rather than a metaphysical claim.

The text emphasizes not being led astray by desire and living restrained under the law.

The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

The Buddha is described as 'trackless' and beyond conventional paths or tracks.

Ascetic disciplines that prepare the body and mind for spiritual receptivity or purification.

The practice includes being moderate in eating and dwelling on highest thoughts.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

The text emphasizes the 'Omniscient' nature of the Buddha and the attainment of 'complete knowledge'.

The Zoroastrian triad of right thought, right speech, and right action as the foundation of ethical life; truth-in-living.

Verse 183 explicitly lists 'not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind' as the teaching of the Awakened.

Disciplined inward attention — sitting, focused, or open-awareness practice — as a stand-alone term that umbrellas active_contemplation, inner_silence, and dhyana-style sitting.

Verses 181 and 185 explicitly mention meditation and dwelling on highest thoughts as part of the teaching.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

The text uses paradoxical statements such as patience being the highest penance and long-suffering the highest Nirvana.

Eckhart's radical reading of Matthew 5:3 — the saint as one who wants nothing, knows nothing, and has nothing, having emptied even the will and the self with which to receive God; distinct from renunciation_of_wealth (material poverty).

The emphasis on not being led by desire aligns with the renunciation of attachment characteristic of this concept.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

The text describes the Awakened as having no basis for renewed existence and being trackless, implying a return to an unconditioned state.

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

The Buddha is described as possessing unlimited knowledge and not being led astray by desire.

A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.

The text mentions retiring from the world and dwelling on highest thoughts as spiritual practices.

The Buddhist doctrine that all phenomena lack independent self-nature; emptiness as the positive recognition that things arise only in dependence on conditions — distinct from kenoma's mere deficiency.

The Buddha is described as having no basis for renewed existence and being trackless, reflecting the concept of emptiness.