Karl Renz - Peace Off: And Be What You Are

KARL RENZ

Edited By
Manjit Achhra

Peace off!

Because That what you are doesnt need any peace

And that what needs peace will never find peace.

For theres no peace in the world,

theres no peace in anything because they are all ideas!

The peace you are, you never lost.

That what you never lost, you cannot find in any of this

so-called ... whatever you call it.

The peace you can experience is not the peace you are...

because the peace you can experience is different from

something else.

K ARL R ENZ

Peace Off: And Be What You Are

Copyright 2017 Karl Renz

First Edition: January 2017

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C O N T E N T S

Other Books by Karl Renz

• Undecided: Neti-Neti
• Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas
  Excerpts from the Marsanne talks
• A Little Bit Of Nothingness
  81 Observations On The Unnamable
• The Song of Irrelevance
  Meditation of what you are
• Heaven and Hell
• Am I- I Am
• May It Be As It Is
  The Embrace of Helplessness
• Worry and be Happy
  The Audacity of Hopelessness
• Echoes of Slience
  Avadhut Gita Revisited
• If You Wake Up, Dont Take It Personally
  Dialogues in the Presence of Arunachala
• The Myth of Enlightenment
  Seeing Through the Illusion of Separation

A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S

T he Publishers wish to thank

Anjali Walsh, Hemant Nadkarni and Sanjay Inamdar

for their invaluable help in making this book possible.

C H A P T E R O N E

Peace Off!
And be the peace you are

Q: You speak about Trinity. But its only One, the beingness...

K: You can say Reality is realizing itself in trinity. So, trinity is a realization of Reality but not Reality. The Absolute Being is realizing itself as trinity.

Q: When I experience this...

K: When I experiences this, its already too late. Whatever starts with I is too late! When the doubtful I starts something, doubtful experiences appear. From the doubtful experience of I the doubtful experiences of whatever happens, happens. The false creates the false. The I is already false and out of the false I, the falsity continues.

Q: Its just out of curiosity, not a real question...

K: Thats the curious guy. The false is always curious about what is right. The unreal wants to become the real but it will never become real. It tries very hard to become real but the unreal will always remain unreal. And that what is real never needs to question itself because the real is real anyway. The unreal always has this tendency of making itself real but it will never succeed. You can go home now! [Laughter]

The whole Consciousness is only there because the I is there. Since the I is false, the Consciousness is false. Whatever happens is Consciousness. So there are only false happenings. But you cannot get rid of them because they dont exist. Its amazing!

Q: Its too fast for me...

K: I have this problem, I cannot talk slowly. Im the antidote of John De Ruiter. [Laughter]

Q: I had an insight that it is not trinity, it is only One...

K: Who says it is not three? Maybe its four. Maybe its not even one? Who needs to know that? And who now claims that it cannot be that? You have an insight? I saw that there are no three. Maybe there is a tree but no three. [Laughter]

But when theres no trinity, theres trinity because if theres one who says theres no trinity, there has to be trinity. You confirm that theres trinity, just like an atheist who says theres no God, confirms that there is one. Because the God who is not there, has to be so that he cannot be. Its amazing! The atheists really confirm that theres a God. So, you confirm that there is a trinity by saying theres no trinity. If you say theres no devil, theres a devil. Amazing! If you say theres no me, for sure theres a me!

Q [Another visitor]: When I ask who is Ramana, it feels like an open space. But when I ask, Who am I? the attention comes back to the body and its heavy and unpleasant. The body is disturbed...

K: If the question, Who Is Ramana works better, than just forget the Who Am I, its the same. If Ramana works better for disappearance of ideas, than its your way. But dont say, Who Is Karl?. Dont go so far! [Laughter]

Just forget the I and ask Who Is Ramana... maybe that works for you. Then you disappear in the cosmic-comic strip of life.

Whatever works! Dont just follow what is being said. Whatever works for you is right for you. Trust your inner guru because he knows best. Whatever brings the resonance is exactly what has to happen. Theres no religion for What-you-are. You have to lose your religion and all the religions around you because the only God you can trust is What-you-are. And if God wants to ask Who Is Ramana?, then God is right.

Q [Another visitor]: I cannot connect with people...

K: Be happy! [Laughter] Everyone wants to be detached and now shes complaining that shes too much detached. Be happy that youre detached.

Q: My mind says, I must be open, I must love everyone...

K: I think youre not in the right place here [Laughter] maybe you went to wrong teachers before. They have implanted the ideas like you have to. Or maybe in your surroundings they must have said, you must have an open heart. And you always fail and complain, Bloody me, why am I so stupid? Why am I so closed? Poor me! Everyone else is open, but me. Forget these open heart masters. They have the most closed heart - these open heart masters. Whoever claims that he has an open heart, has one heart too many. [Laughter]

This ownership of the heart knot is the only thing that makes you suffer. Having heart is hell! Being Heart, not knowing heart - thats your natural state. But not having a heart, and especially not having an open heart! [Laughter] Then walking around and selling your open heart to everyone. Then saying Oh, I see you, youre still closed, follow me. Its like fishermen fishing for rotten fish and then selling it to others. The little fish of an open heart concept.

I had a visitor in Koh Samui and she said, you must have an open heart. Mooji confirmed me, Eckhart Tolle confirmed me. I said, I, for sure, not. [Laughter] Because whatever needs to be confirmed, is false. Finished! Especially when someone like Mooji or Eckhart Tolle confirms you. [Laughter] What an idea! The truth that you can agree to, for sure is not the truth. Fuck it all! [Laughter] You can sell that truth, you can make money with that truth because there are many buyers who want to buy the false because theyre living by the false. Everyone who wants to buy something wants to own something, and then he buys that what is false. What to do? Its the biggest business on earth.