Question: A moment ago, as I was peeling potatoes, my mind calmed down and I was happy. But we cannot spend our life peeling potatoes!
Karl Renz: Nothing is easier than That. Being what you are doesn’t require anything, and being what you are is simply like peeling a potato, an infinite potato…
But if you are peeling potatoes and want to enjoy the fruits of your labour, it is too much! If you are simply peeling them, it is meditation: there is no expectation, no intention to make French fries afterwards…
Question: Then it is attention without intention.
Karl Renz: No, it is simply to be what is never hungry, but still you have to peel potatoes. Even if nothing can satisfy you, you must try! Do I have to repeat that love will never stop? Sometimes love is with a lover, sometimes it is without a lover, that’s all, but neither can make or unmake what you are. Thus you are what you are even when there is intention. If you wait for the intention to go, you can wait for a long time…
Question: Why this desire to constantly meditate?
Karl Renz: Because it is your nature, your natural state. As soon as you wake up, you meditate on what you are in all possible and impossible ways, it is the way you realize yourself. It is Life living itself. So Life experiencing life is Life meditating on life. For That, there is no other way, and you cannot avoid it, because you are this Life which cannot avoid itself or avoid a single life experience. No way out! You experience yourself in pleasure and in suffering, because you cannot have one without the other. There is always an absolute balance between love and hate, light and darkness, beauty and ugliness, holiness and bestiality, wisdom and folly, a perfect balance.