them, you have to have proved to yourself that you can attain them! In other words: to transcend success, first you have to have had success.
It was at that moment that I decided to give all my wishes to Love, to the Presence which is the source of all things I sensed in myself. Hang on tight: I accepted that, in reality, I did not know what was best for me, and that I was wrong almost every single time I tried to guess. I achieved many goals, thanks to the fact that I mastered the science of success, but once I verified that I was able to attain what I desired, I had the conviction that there had to be something much better than making my wishes come true.
Yes, you have read correctly: there is something much better than achieving your desires.
My first step was consecrating all the deeds I did toward Love. My ego was cast aside, giving way to my “I Am.” I handed my future life to the Divinity, the Absolute, the Enlightened, the Being, the Real, to Love... My second step was to entrust my goals to the Presence, the One, the will of God. And that relaxed me: I no longer had to make decisions, it was simply a matter of following the internal guide of Love.
I starting delegating in God. It is something I can really recommend, for it is very liberating. From that day, I stopped running, like Gump (bottom line is, why so much running?). I abandoned conventional coaching and started the era of Supercoaching, “conscious coaching” or “enlightened coaching.”
To abbreviate, I will say that a series of changes in my life led me to think that I was awaking from a deep slumber. It had been, of course, in recent years, a beautiful dream; but that did not make it less of a fictitious dreamscape.
Let us understand: it was not that I did not want anything, since wanting nothing is already wanting something. I wanted one thing... only one: to wake up. To make this life truly worth living. To awaken and stay awake became my sole objective, and I continued to pursue it. It took a long time for me to acquire that mental clarity, and I was not willing to replace it with my ego’s newest yearning, so I gave that goal all my effort.
You hand your life to God, and God grants you life. What happens next is that you enter a state of Grace (I will speak of this further toward the end of the book), which provides everything you may need, and more. Door that previously remained shut are suddenly wide open, and opportunities you had never even dreamt of suddenly reveal themselves to you.
However, this does not imply that everything will happen, because you do not need for everything that goes through your head to happen; but everything that really matters does happen.
I became an “enlightened coach,” without base and personal desires, perhaps not able to attain more things, but certainly able to attain those I valued. Three great differences distanced me from my past self:
1 An immense inner peace, without conflicts, upon acknowledging that I was guided and accompanied by an inconceivable loving intelligence.
2 An immense relaxation and calmness, since I no longer needed to struggle at all, everything happened with ease.
3 An immense certainty and security, since I knew who or what walked beside me.
For this to happen, I first had to free myself from myself, and from my agenda. Thankfully, it was not something hard to give up, nor an elevated price to pay, compared with the reward.
I am conscious that you cannot ask an urbanite to lead the life of an ascetic. I do not lead such a life. Many times, traditional spiritual recipes are designed for a world and culture that no longer exist, much less in the Western Hemisphere. But it is in the day-to-day where we need to practice what we learn in the sacred texts.
We all have families to take care of, demanding jobs, and gas tanks to fill up, complicated social lives, and live surrounded by an ever increasing complexity that barely allows us a breather to invest time in the big questions:
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
What is the sense of everything?
This book will answer those questions. This book only asks for a few hours in exchange for infinity.
Today, the Western Hemisphere and, perhaps, the whole world, is full of people disillusioned with spiritual fast food (religion), people who seek low-cost enlightenment, that does not demand the sacrifice of modern and urban lifestyles. So I set my mind toward writing an enjoyable and light book about awakening and low-cost enlightenment, without sacrifices or radical changes.
This book develops an idea that is shocking to most: you are not who you think you are. In a certain way, you are an impostor, a phony; please do not misinterpret my meaning, since it is not ill-willed. You have usurped your real identity. But I will emplace you in front of the mirror, to show you who or what you really are.
I have tried to simplify complex oriental concepts. In the glossary, at the end of the book, I offer a clarifying overview of these concepts.
The first key to understanding this book is to consider, at every moment, that there is no separation (duality), that there are no dual individuals. And, given that there is no separate self, then there is no need to improve it. If you are able to recall your reading, everything will be very clear. We will return to this essential point later on. The second key is that life is impersonal, there are no individuals.
There is nothing external to your own self. The quality of reality is absolute correlation. The quality of slumber is absolute disaggregation. Fortunately, he who slumbers is safe from any of his dreams. There is nothing that can damage him.
You will verify that I repeat some fundamental concepts, modifying their formulation, in several chapters. I do so deliberately, so that the secrets offered in this book are understood and, by repetition, the reader can learn them.
You cannot conform yourself with simply reading this book: you must also experience it, put it into practice. All information is composed of second-hand notions, while experience is first-hand knowledge. While you read it, observe and recognise within yourself that which you have read. The text is like a piece of clothing: put it on, feel it against your skin, see how it looks.
I do not recommend reading this book while your ego seats beside you. It was not written for your ego. Give your ego the day off; ego cannot be enlightened, because it is an obstacle for the light.
I do not want this book to entail a mental exercise, it makes no sense to read it from start to finish to agree or disagree with it. Nor to reaffirm that you may have learned in the past. By experience, I know that almost everyone wants results without payment, without making the necessary effort, completely free of charge. This manual for enlightenment has a low-cost, but it does have a price. The price is to stop being your “own self,” which is not asking too much, and let go of the script that tells you how the world and its inhabitants must be.
There are people who have read some of my books and ask: Now what do I do? Or worse still: Why don’t you write another book explaining how to put this book into practice? My answer is that nothing needs to be done, that is why there is no homework. These people have read from their ego, who thinks that the books have to solve their lives.
When I was a conventional coach, I gave out tasks, or “homework,” designed agendas and action plans... no more, as an “enlightened coach,” I only propose consciousness. No more, no less.
What I can assure you of is that, when you have awaken, everything will clear up on its own. When you stop struggling to solve your life, all your doubts will be resolved (you were not born to perfect or solve your life).
And remember: you can read a medication label a thousand times, but you will never benefit from it if you do not take the medication. Do not simply settle with reading this book, it is better if you “take it” daily. Words are not enough, nothing will beat your personal experience. I cannot convince you of who or what you are, eventually, you will have to experiment to find out.
And, a final tale: one morning, in December 2017, in which I had finished writing