ABSTRACT
‘A little point’ left by God corresponds to what Zen Buddhists would call satori. Meister Eckhart’s idea of the ‘little point’ which God left in order to make us turn back to ourselves and realise that we are after all creatures is highly suggestive and full of significance. Eckhart distinguishes two kinds of knowledge: one is to know God as the only true God and the other is to know God through knowledge about him. The second kind is ‘twilight knowledge in which creation is perceived by clearly distinguished ideas’; while the first kind is ‘daybreak knowledge’ where ‘creatures are known in God’, and ‘in which creatures are perceived without distinctions, all ideas being rejected, all comparisons done away in that one that God himself is’. Eckhart seems to be using knowledge in two different senses, one in a relative sense and the other in the absolute.
