Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas by Karl Renz

Author:Karl Renz [Renz, Karl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zen Publications
Published: 2015-12-27T21:00:00+00:00

The Kingdom is what is prior to the awareness of being, because this first mirror of existence is the presence of the first experience. This awareness is the most subtle form of existence, the purest mirror, but it already belongs to imagination.

Isn’t awakening precisely to see that everything is there? And when I say to see, I really mean with the eyes.

This will never be visible: the eye cannot see itself and whatever the eye sees cannot be That what is the eye.

But what we see in some state of consciousness is not any more what we see when we are in the ego.

In the ego there is nothing. The ego itself belongs to imagination. How could an imagination find itself in another imagination? The ego has no power.

“The kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth / and men do not see it”.

The paradise is not to come, it is already there but not as a personal paradise. The paradise is where there is no “mine”. Nobody will ever be the owner of it because what is mine refers to the separate ego.

Through the absolute aspect of imagination everything is there, the present like the past and the future.

Yes, there is no time or no-time. Everything is. It is the symbol of the infinite. The loop. It is a perpetual motion upward and downward and it is endless because it never started. But the ego which lives from hope thinks that one day there will be a circumstance where it is possible for him to disappear, and by this very hope the absolute ego becomes relative. It is through the understanding of the infinite that the relative, what is the ego, the “I”, disappears.

It is scary to walk in the void.

Jesus talks about this abyss: Fear not what you are because you are the absolute abyss. And to be afraid of what you are is ignorance.

The whole history is precisely in the body, in the survival instinct of the body.

This is the folly of thinking that we are born. So fear is there. Whatever idea of existence brings fear and since any idea lives from imagination, it has to be proved. And in order to do so, it always needs a second imagination. The void is unbearable because the void means absence of duality: in it there is not even this first imagination and without duality no first either, naturally. So to be afraid of That, of what we are, namely of what is without duality, is rather stupid. We cannot imagine how stupid we can be.

It can be cured.

Yes, we can cure stupidity. And whatever we can cure belongs to stupidity because Knowledge doesn’t need to be cured, it is unconditional. Stop making efforts and the stupidity will disappear on its own accord, as it came. So “be quiet and see”. The stupidity that came will go but That what is knowledge is before, during and after everything that is.

How is it possible that the Absolute takes itself for the relative?

You will never be able to solve this mystery.

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