What is Left is It

"The beauty of Reality is that it doesn’t need any reality to be what-it-is. And the one who says he knows Reality, he should burn in hell forever. And he will burn in hell forever. He will burn in this relative knowledge of being an owner of shit. That’s already hell enough. That’s why I call it owner-shit.
[A visitor coughs]
Drop dead you beast! It’s the virus I mean, not the Irish. [Laughter]"
~ Karl Renz, The Lies about Truth
"Questioner: 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 it’s heavy and unpleasant. The body is disturbed...
Karl: If the question, ‘Who Is Ramana’ works better, than just forget the ‘Who Am I’, it’s the same. If Ramana works better for disappearance of ideas, than it’s your way. But don’t say, ‘Who Is Karl?’. Don’t 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! Don’t 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. There’s 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."
~ Karl Renz, Peace Off: And Be What You Are
"Karl Renz’s home is Berlin, but he travels much of the year. One might easily dismiss him as a disagreeable, melancholic German with a propensity toward schadenfreude. With no introduction and not a word about who he was or his philosophy, Renz opened the evening with a call for questions. There was a long silence before the first seeker (sucker?) spoke up and Karl filleted his question with a mix of philosophical adroitness and advaitic sleight-of-hand. And so it went for the rest of the evening. Questions, whether from the heart or purely intellectual would be deflected, or the idea of an answer or even a questioner deconstructed. “I can only destroy all questions,” he said, “pointing out that all is shit. If you see that all is shit, what is left is it.”
~ Shawn, enlightened teachers dot org