Chapter XIV, Section 1c

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 overcoming the host of evils and crossing the flood of sorrow through a path that leads to quieting pain.

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

A supernatural person is described as not being easily found and not born everywhere.

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

The passage explicitly states that salvation comes from 'clear understanding' and seeing the four holy truths rather than ritual alone.

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

The refuge is located within the individual's understanding rather than in external physical locations.

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

The Buddha and Law are personified as active sources of refuge and teaching.

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

The passage uses the reversal that a physical refuge is not safe compared to the spiritual path.

Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.

The passage explicitly mentions 'paying homage' to the awakened and their disciples as a spiritual practice.

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

The text describes a path that leads to peace and deliverance from all pain.

The maintenance of a state of cleanliness—physical, moral, or spiritual—required for encounter with the divine.

The mention of 'sacred shrines' implies a requirement for purity in the physical context of refuge.

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

Salvation is linked to seeing the four holy truths and clear understanding of one's spiritual state.

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

The text describes a journey from physical refuge to the quieting of pain through the eightfold way.

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 text states that desire can be annihilated and one is delivered from all pains, aligning with the concept of emptiness of suffering.