Vorsicht! Watch out! Karl Renz is as sure to madden as he is to delight-but people keep coming back anyway, because he is so right, or perhaps only because he is so entertaining. With Karl, every idea, every theory, every sacred idol of the mind, is fair game. Sooner or later, he will turn his attack to one of your most cherished beliefs, and his bite is sure to sting, but then, amidst all the fun and laughter and the relaxed atmosphere of acceptance that he generates, you will start to laugh at yourself, and the hardened misconceptions with which you perpetuate your suffering will begin to fall away. Karl is a teacher of non-duality; he recommends no specific technique and advocates no method. His talk will contradict itself, or run in circles, or simply converge into indecipherable paradoxes. The room is full of people determined to understand his system-struggling to figure it out, once and for all, write it down, memorize it, and then walk away "enlightened"-but there can be no figuring out, because any enlightenment you could "figure out" would be a mere idea. Karl is always pointing to something beyond ideas and concepts, and he takes you there.

If You Wake Up, Don't Take It Personally

Renz, Karl

Religion & Spirituality

Aperion Books

"An inspirational telling of all of the truths we humans have been taught to deny." -Midwest Book Review The teachings of Karl Renz are a bit like Zen Koans-those short statements that stop the mind's activity by contemplating their paradoxical meaning. But Karl will take you even further: contemplating his words have the power to turn the mind back upon itself, toward our original awareness of Being. A Little Bit of Nothingness is a unique juxtaposition between dialogues of Karl Renz and the eighty-one verses of the Tao Te Ching. Here, the reality of the Tao¬¬-the unnameable, original cause of all that is-becomes evident as our own reality by the deep insights provided through Karl. The search for happiness usually takes us on an outward journey where we find ourselves identifying with everything except "that which we truly are." What we really need is to taste a "a little bit of nothingness"-the absence of any kind of presence that we believe ourselves to be. This is who we really are: our true self. No one sees this as well as Karl Renz, the German mystic-artist who, for the last ten years, has travelled around the world pulling the rug out from under our hallowed beliefs, leaving us blissfully wanting even less.

A Little Bit of Nothingness

Whether you meet Karl Renz in person or through this book, the encounter will leave you with a radically different sense of yourself. Karl's unique ability lies in exposing the beliefs we've built our lives on, beginning with our root sense of individuality. Our current predicament is the result of believing ourselves to be something other than what we really are. This self-imposed limitation causes our incessant searching and suffering.Throughout these dialogues Karl unceasingly brings us back to the truth of our real nature by helping us recognize the fleeting and impermanent nature of the self we've come to believe in. Even momentarily seeing the truth of who we really are immediately frees us, if only temporarily, from these self-imposed limitations.Karl's purpose-if we can say he even has one-is to reflect our own divinity, which he skillfully and uncompromisingly expresses throughout the pages of this book. By realizing the implication of his words, we can live life to its fullest and experience the boundless freedom that is our essence. The most detailed and authoritive text on the true meaning of the Taylors Masonic rituals! The principal contents of this book are the Official Taylors Lectures on the Three Degrees of Craft Freemasonry. These lectures deal with the description of the ritual of those Degrees along with their moral and symbolic significance and are of a formal nature, arranged as catechisms - that is by question and answer form. The text can be studied at home or can be preformed by two or more brethren in open lodge. Much evidence suggests that many sections of these lectures are as old as the degrees themselves. This book adds much to ones enjoyment and understanding of Freemasonry. The most detailed and authoritive text on the true meaning of the Taylors Masonic rituals! The principal contents of this book are the Official Taylors Lectures on the Three Degrees of Craft Freemasonry. These lectures deal with the description of the ritual

The Myth of Enlightenment: Seeing Through the Illusion of Separation

New Age & Spirituality

Inner Directions Pub

Undecided: Neti-Neti

ZEN Publications

Around 1945, in the area of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, some peasants accidentally discovered some 53 parchments, written in Sahidic Coptic, buried in a large jar one meter high. Those leather-bound papyrus codices were mostly Gnostic texts, including the prestigious Gospel of Thomas : this manuscript is dated 4th century A.D. but quite possibly is a Coptic translation from Greek, the traces of which have been found in very damaged papyri discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Hellenic city of Middle Egypt, dated 3rd century A.D.The Gospel of Thomas is composed of 114 logia (plural of logion) or sayings from Jesus, which reveal that the Kingdom is already present in each of us contrary to the canonical Gospels which advocate an apocalyptic psychosis in an eschatological context. This is because Gnosis, free from all religions, doesn't know any spatiotemporal otherworldliness.The discovery of the Gospel of Thomas has been providing the proof that Jesus uttered non-dual words attesting to the same awakening as the great sages of the East. Thus the source was also to be found in our Western tradition but had been concealed by centuries of theology. This is why ÉmileGillabert has been rather particular on the correct French translation of this text in the light of the universal Gnosis, that is to say of the non-duality, so much so that he founded the Metanoia association whose purpose is to explore the Gospel of Thomas in depth as well as to make it known.A few decades after ÉmileGillabert' death, the Metanoia association had the fortunate inspiration to invite Karl Renz on four occasions, in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010. During those informal and spontaneous conversations, the participants had the opportunity to present to Karl a large number of logia in order to spark off his commentaries. This book tells the best part of those commentaries revealing Karl's responses to his questioners while expressing, over the course of the talks and in his unequivocal manner, the living Word which he so clearly embodies.Whilst Karl's commentaries directly respond to each logion, they also answer participants' questions as they naturally come up and this free flow (which follows on from each logion as a spider web which is spun and then tightens itself) takes hold of the one who is exposing himself by blocking off all possible escape routes, thus creating an unconventional non-dual echo of the true Gnosis."We must as Jesus suggests divest ourselves of personal clothes. The necessity of this surrender is emphasized through all the 114 logia," ÉmileGillabert stressed, agreeing with Karl: "That is absolute nudity, andthat is Jesus."

Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas: Excerpts from the Marsanne talks

Peace off: And Be What You Are

Karl is like quicksilver, you can't catch him and he's impossible to define. He offers no teaching, and no help, and only speaks 'I' to 'I'. He employs his unerring empty-handed karate to unseat each questioner and destroy their concepts, moving freely between the sacred and the profane. After de-constructing spiritual ideas like Truth and Peace, it's now time to unravel the true nature of Bliss. Any experience of bliss leaves blisters in your brain, he says, as they leave you with unsatiated desire for more; until finally you are left with nothing but tears. Karl plays with words like a juggler, tossing out jokes, puns, invective, and the Living Words, all with the same careless zest. And when the questions subside and his audience is empty and silent, he points to 'being what you cannot not be'. These talks are the gift of crazy wisdom!

Blisstears: Bliss, the root of all suffering

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