A Little Bit of Nothingness (Eighty-One Observations on the Unnameable)

A Little Bit of Nothingness (Eighty-One Observations on the Unnameable)

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAK875
Author: Karl Renz
Publisher: Zen Publications
Language: English
Edition: 2012
ISBN: 9789384363543
Pages: 150
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 180 gm

Book Description

About the Author

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 takes you even further: pondering 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 the 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 - has the potential to become 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 little bit of nothingness – the absence of any kind of ideas that we have about ourselves.

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 , leaving us blissfully wanting even less.

‘Realization means that consciousness, which once was identified with an object, becomes boundry-less. It becomes conscious of being consciousness. But the Self is never realized nor not-realized. It is always prior to any ideas about enlightenment or non-enlightenment. Anything you can say about it is an idea.

Foreword

What is man in his essence? What is the point of VV this whole existence? Is there a deeper meaning behind everything? These are the leading questions that have shaped our culture - religion, philosophy, science, and art - for thousands of years.

In this book we encounter Lao Tsu, a Chinese wise man who lived 2,500 years ago, and Karl Renz, a German artist and mystic of our time. They meet where time and space no longer have any meaning.

Lao Tsu is not a name but a title of honor, which means "The Elder." The transmission says that an old civil servant, who served as an archivist of scriptures, was leaving the empire when he was asked by a border patrol official to write down his realizations. Lao Tsu handed over more than 5,000 Chinese characters and continued on his way westward. The work influenced the governments of several later emperors and received the title Tao Te Ching, which roughly means "the classical book of the meaning of life."

There are many, often contradictory accounts, about Lao Tsu (Laozi) and the origin of the Tao Te Ching (DaodeJing). Equally diverse are the translations and interpretations that have spread across Europe since the nineteenth century. For this book, the German translation of Richard Wilhelm has been referenced, except for a few rare cases in which Rudolf Bachofen's translation was used.

Richard Wilhelm points out in his introduction that the term "Tao" is to be considered more like an "algebraic sign" for something that is fundamentally indefinable and unpronounceable. Tao has also been translated as "God," "the inscrutable," "the way," or as "sense" by Wilhelm Reich. In this book, it is simply referred to as Tao.

The idea to bring together the Tao Te Ching with some of the dialogues of Karl Renz comes from Dietmar Bittrich, the publisher of Das Buch Karl (published in English as The Myth of Enlightenment). In Karl's meetings, which he occasionally calls "Self Talks" or "Performances," he speaks completely spontaneously. Even he says that he doesn't know what speaks through him or what he speaks about. These transcribed recordings only very rarely refer to specific texts of the Tao Te Ching, This is more about an allocation and mutual fertilization of Karl Renz and Lao Tsu.

Karl addresses exactly that dimension of the Tao which is not graspable and usable. The rejection of how we function, in an organized and goal-oriented world, is a central theme that runs through the Tao Te eking, while on quite another level through the talks of Karl Renz.

While Lao Tsu occasionally strives to enlighten the population and the empire through ethical principles, Karl' , talks completely transcend ideas of "good" and "bad." But, as with many differences, they are only apparent. This unique combination darkens and illuminates, confuses and clarifies. One doesn't have to understand anything, but as Karl says, "Something always understands!"

Contents

Foreword Christian Salvensen xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 The Tao That Can Be Named Is Not The Eternal Tao 17
2 Being And Non-Being Create Each Other 19
3 The Sage Acts Without Acting 21
4 The Tao Is Without Essence 23
5 The All Doesn't Know Love 24
6 The Spirit Of The Valley Doesn't Die 26
7 The Sage Doesn't Want Anything For Himself 27
8 The Highest Good Is Like Water 29
9 When The Work Is Done, Withdraw 30
10 This Is The Secret Life 32
11 That Which Is Not Serves The Work 33
12 He Prefers What is Within to What is Without 34
13 Welcome Disgrace Willingly 36
14 One Looks For It And Doesn't See It 37
15 Who Else Can Clear What Is Muddy Through Stillness? 39
16 Create Emptiness All The Way to the Highest!. 41
17 When A Mighty One Rules 43
18 When A Mighty One Rules Morality And Duty 45
19 Dismiss Holiness, Throw Away Wisdom 47
20 I Have The Heart Of A Fool... 48
21 The Content Of The Large Life Follows The Tao 50
22 What Is Partial Will Be Whole 51
23 Make Rare The Words, Then Everything Happens By Itself Happens By Itself 53
24 He Who Stands On Tiptoes, Does Not Stand Firm 56
25 The Tao Follows Itself 58
26 Stillness Is The Ruler Of Restlessness 59
27 A Good Traveler Doesn't Leave Tracks 61
28 Whoever Knows His Purity 63
29 The World Is A Spiritual Thing 64
30 The One Who Follows The Laws Of The Universe 65
31 Weapons Are Instruments of Fear 66
32 The Eternal Tao Is Nameless Innocence 67
33 The One Who Knows HimselfIs Wise 69
34 The Tao Flows Everywhere 70
35 The World Will Come To Him, Who Holds On To The One 72
36 The Soft Overcomes The Hard 73
37 The Tao Is Eternally Without Doing 74
38 He Who Upholds Life 75
39 All Is Created By The One 76
40 Being Is Born Out Of Non-Being 78
41 The Great Tone Has Inaudible Sound 79
42 The Tao Creates The One 80
43 Teaching Without Words 82
44 Winning Or Losing: Which Is Worse? 84
45 Great Fullness Seems Empty 85
46 To Be Content With Contentment Is Permanent Contentment 87
47 Without Looking Out Of The Window, One Sees The Tao Of Heaven 89
48 In Non-Doing, Nothing Is Left Undone 91
49 The Sage Lives In The World Totally Still 92
50 Coming Out Of Non-Beingnes Into Beingness Is Birth 95
51 The Tao Creates 96
52 To Choose The Soft, Means Being Strong 98
53 What It Means, To Live In The Tao 100
54 When You Mold The World, Your Life Becomes Broad 101
55 He Who Lives Out Of His Origin's Fullness 103
56 The One Who Knows Doesn't Speak. 105
57 Through Not-Wanting, One Wins A Kingdom 106
58 The Sage Is Sharp, Without Cutting 110
59 If No One Knows Our Limits 112
60 If One Governs The World According To The Tao 114
61 The Feminine Always Prevails 115
62 The Tao Is The Home Of All Things 117
63 Who Practices Non-Doing 118
64 Whoever Holds On, Loses It 120
65 Mysterious Life Is Deep 122
66 Because The Sage Doesn't Argue 124
67 Only The One Is Great, Whose Greatness Doesn't Mean Anything to Him 126
68 Being In Accord With The Way of Heaven 127
69 Being In Accord With The Way of Heaven 129
70 My Words Are Very Easy To Understand 131
71 Who Knows Of His Not-Knowing 133
72 Don't Interfere in Their Homes 135
73 The Sage Doesn't Waver 137
74 There Is Always A Death Force Which Kills 138
75 He Who Doesn't Act For The Sake Of Life 140
76 The Soft Ones And Weak Ones Are Companions Of Life 138
77 The Sage Acts And Doesn't Keep 140
78 It Can't Be Changed By Anything 141
79 The Sage Doesn't Demand Anything From Others 143
80 Let The People Take Death Seriously 145
81 True Words Are Not Beautiful... 147
About The Author 149



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