Sweetness

Karl Renz: I think by intuition you know that you are not something what you can know. By absolute intuition. Because whatever you can know, you drop again. And then you try something else and you drop it again. You pick it up – your understanding or some experience but after a while it doesn’t satisfy you, gone. Next one. So, you always try the next one. And none of them is… Maybe it’s like little temporary satisfaction. But this temporary satisfaction doesn’t satisfy you.

So, all of that is empty. After a while you may turn away from all that, fleeting thing. And then turning away from it, turning to that what is always available. But you never count it. What was always there. So your attention always went astray.

But you cannot… It happens when it happens. Not because you want it to happen. So it has to burn out before. It has to be really empty, empty, empty, empty, empty. Until… Then the longing is so strong that it automatically comes back. And then this experience of that what doesn’t need to experience itself – this sweetness of what it is, that what is sweetness – is uncomparable to any other experience. And then you are totally hooked to yourself. And then by nature you just stay there. Because you are not tempted anymore by all of that fleeting things. But only that can keep you there.

Question: You said longing.

Karl Renz: Yeah, the longing is there first. You are longing. Out of longing you look for all the experiences, you look for yourself everywhere. But none of that satisfy you. They are all too bitter. Because any experience is bitter. And then you turn to That what is sweetness itself. By being the sweetness who never needs to taste itself because there is no one who compares one experience to the other.

So there is a sweetness by nature. Or satisfaction by nature. And only by being that you are not tempted by whatever comes in front of you. You cannot stop it. It still will be there. But the devil cannot tempt you anymore. That is why Jesus in the desert was tempted again and again, whatever. But he was – ok, may it be.

So the temptation of Christ is permanent in everyone.

Question: Sweetness is just a word. It’s not meant to be.

Karl Renz: You can call it anything. It’s a noumenal. Satisfaction fits for me. Satisfaction who never needs to be satisfied. So then what you are – is fact. You cannot not be that. It’s a fact. Sat-is-fact. What you are is totally fact. And everything else is fiction what cannot bring you that fact you are. And that fact you are which was always there is not something new. It was, it is, and it will be.