Ranjit Maharaj: Nothing to worry about anything. If you want Zero, I have got nothing with me. I have given you everything. Go after Zero, run after Zero.
Say, “I never needed anything.” What are you going to take? Everybody wants to take Zero. Why you should worry? You can’t change the Reality. The one who gets Reality, then? he becomes He! Continue reading “Zero”
Question: What do you recommend? Do you recommend some practices?
Karl Renz: Yes. When you eat – you eat, when you sleep – you sleep, when you make the dishes – make the dishes, when you shit – you shit.
Question: It’s like zen method.
Karl Renz: Yes, like zen 24/7. Being what you cannot not be 24/7, just be quiet. That is the only whatever I can… It’s like an absolute reference point and solitude. Being alone in even the biggest crowd. Just face the solitude 24/7.
Question: What is going on here in general? What is happening here?
Karl Renz: Nothing I think. Nothing happens here. Nothing ever happened. That is good. That is the absolute happening that nothing ever happens. Absolute non-happening. So you should be happy because nothing ever happened. As a person it’s really every moment is a horror show, really like a zombyland everywhere. Everywhere is the walking of the death. Dead men walking. Dead corpses talking. Death dancing. That is what you experience. Because Life you can never experience. You can only experience a death. There is never any Life experience.
Question: But who is experiencing death?
Karl Renz: Life experiencing itself as death. As a body, as an universe, as whatever. It’s all a dead experience. Because Life cannot be experienced. But Life cannot otherwise dreaming itself or experiencing itself as death, as empty, as phenomenal. The nomenal Life, That what is nomenal can only experience yourself as phenomenal. There is no difference in it but the phenomenal experiences are not that what is a nomenal. So that’s why it’s all dreamlike. You call it real or unreal. Even that is as real as you but is not what you are. Continue reading “What is going on here?”
Question: Nobody realizes the Absolute.
Karl Renz: There is nobody in the Absolute. There is only the Absolute. Since nobody owns the Absolute, nobody can be the Absolute. That will always be a paradox, for sure, and you are this paradox. Only a paradox doesn’t need to explain itself because for that what is para, prior to all ideas, the paradox is what is in the presence as in the absence. For That there is no paradox. But for the intellect it is an insoluble koan. How could that “what is not” be that “what is”? You cannot understand this, you can only be it. That never makes a problem and That needs neither explanation nor to solve a koan.
Question: Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “You are pure unknowing”.
Question: Do you feel any emotions?
Karl Renz: I feel everything! I feel the Whole, I feel all aggressions, all the things you said, people attacking me, all this energy that unfolds, but what to do? But this, I could not take it on me, it just comes and goes. You cannot bear this compassion, you cannot take it personally, it consumes you. In fact, I take it absolutely personally, in this way it doesn’t make any problem. Otherwise, if you don’t have any armour, you go straight to the mental hospital. Nobody has any idea of what it means.
So there are more sensations than I could imagine. Actually, it is not always easy for this body. Maybe without this breakthrough, without this energetic preparation of the cells, the body couldn’t bear it. So with all the things that occurred in the 60’s, these energetic teachings, these dreams in the night, this shamanism, these electric-shocks, consciousness was preparing the tool, so it’s ok…
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…
Anandamayi Ma: This body tells of one sovereign remedy for all ills – God. Trust in Him, depend on Him, accept whatever happens as His dispensation, regard what you do as His service, keep satsang, think of God with every breath, and live in His Presence. Leave all your burdens in His hands and He will see to everything, there will be no more problems.
WORDS OF ANANDAMAYI MA
From ‘MA IN HER WORDS’
Unhappiness is there in the background of happiness.
The experience of the ultimate reality is a state beyond happiness and unhappiness. You consider a wet pitcher to be full of water when seen from a distance because usually a pitcher full of water looks wet. Likewise in the gesture and posture of a self-realized person, there appears an apparent state of happiness but this is not happiness.
Question: So, in you there’s a fulfillment experience that is not depending on anyone or anything?
Karl Renz: No. I’m absolutely happy that I don’t have to be happy to be what I am. I absolutely enjoy that I don’t have to enjoy to be what I am. I don’t need joy, that is the nature of joy. Whatever peace can be experienced – peace-off. To be that what never needs any peace to be what-it-is. So, peace-off or joy-off or do whatever, consciousness.
Question: Is it not possible for God and the Guru to effect the liberation of a soul?
Ramana Maharshi: God and the Guru will only show the way to liberation; they will not by themselves take the soul to the state of liberation. In truth, God and the Guru are not different.
