‘Truth is activity. It really does make a difference to the way I think, feel and live’In one of his most penetrating mystical sermons, Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Dominican, said: “A wise man said: ‘When all things lay in the midst of silence, then there descended into me from on high, from the royal throne, a secret word.’”He was reflecting on the mystery of the central doctrine of Christian faith that in Jesus of Nazareth, born in humble circumstances it is said in Bethlehem, the fullness of the Godhead dwelt embodied. True Man and true God. Even more than the priest Raimon Panikkar, born of an Indian father and Spanish mother, who insisted that he was 100 per cent Indian and 100 per cent Spanish, the Christian lives with the koan of the