Logion 36

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 passage commands a radical letting-go of concern and grasping regarding material security, aligning with the practice of Gelassenheit.

Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.

The instruction to not worry about clothing implies a trust that the divine actively provides for human needs without human anxiety.

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 text resonates with the theme of spiritual poverty by prioritizing trust over material security and possession.

The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle.

The warning against concern for clothing touches on the spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions and provision.