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TO AWAKEN IS TO STOP FANTASIZING

We live in a dreamscape mental state.

We continually seek arguments that reinforce such a state. The dream is self-nourishing. On the other hand, our civilization tries to convince itself, by religion, that we are far removed from God. However, it escapes no one that this theme is no more than the will to retain humanity in that Matrix, employing the invisible tool of fear.

The “spiritual supermarket” is full of “spiritual junk food;” being honest, a lot of greasy “fast food” lacking nutrients. I am sure that, as it has happened to me, they have tried to sell you a ton of methods to achieve realization. I bet that, related to awakening and enlightenment, you have heard that they are alike reaching nirvana on Earth, that you will levitate.

All of these are commercial ruses of “wandering happiness salesmen” or “spiritual charlatans.” We are all overly familiar with people who say what you want to hear. People who dare to offer the effects you seek, without activating the necessary causes. The bottom line is that these people offer you methods for better and deeper slumber, to sleep more comfortably.

It is pure “spiritual trilerism.” Which beaker holds realization? You will never know. The game of ego is based on cheating. Your trilerist ego is fooling you. Your ego, to avoid your awakening, has created the mental idea that waking up is a matter of effort, that it takes time, that it is difficult... It has turned awakening into a new dream, “the spiritual ego’s dream;” it has generated a new obstacle so that you do not do without it, ditching it all together.

The greatest obstacle to awakening is the idealization of awakening really means.

The ego will do anything so that you remain in slumber, even promising the moon or nirvana, if that is what it takes. It will don a tunic and use spiritual language without knowing its true meaning. It will take you to a hall of mirrors, where several “yous” will confuse you as to your real identity. It will practice “spiritual trilerism” with you.

The spiritual ego is even more dormant than conventional ego.

Awakening is not entering nirvana. In truth, people who awaken continue to walk the surface of the planet, and have normal lives, but they no longer seek anything. Awakening does not lead to inexhaustible joy, internal ecstasy, nor perfection. Obviously, they experiment peace, certainty, truth... but this is a natural consequence of their new perceptive state.

Awakening is not...

 Absolute joy

 Perfection

 Ecstasy

 Renouncing the world

 Vanity

 Being super positive

 Superiority

 Feeling better

 Absence of challenges

 Mystical experiences

 Activation of Holy Powers

 Perfection

Awakening leads to knowing who or what you are; that is more than enough.

Once awake, you will not care for whatever kept you awake before. You will enter a state of Grace (which I will delve into at the end of the book, meanwhile, be patient and follow me)...

For the time being, my best advice to awaken is to renounce your attempts to feel better with whatever it is you are facing now. Try to renounce the “self” that believes that things must improve or be very different. Do not try to awaken to feel better, or to try to solve a problem related to your slumber. Because, at the end of the day, trying to satisfy your ego is to believe in its supposed needs. That would be like wrapping one dream into another, but not awakening. Tell me what you prefer: to return to reality or feel better within the fantasy?

I have two good questions, with their corresponding answers:

1 Who awakens? Not ego, of course, since ego is the made-up character of slumber, the hero o all the adventures in the world of things. Let us say that Presence becomes conscious of itself through your consciousness or nervous system. The observer recognizes himself through the instrument they use: the mind.

2 Awaken from what? Awaken from a fictitious mental illusion. Awaken to what we really are and, from that point, keeping it ever present in all our experiences in the world.

Awaken from the belief that we are separate, that we are imperfect and limited.

Life has, with its crisis, an infinite number of opportunities to awaken. They are windows that open every now and then, to allow to you leave the dream. They are mirrors in which we recognize ourselves. First it is a call, then a scream, and finally a kick where it hurts the most. And remember, there is only one end: to awaken. Everything else is a beautiful but inconsequential fairytale.

This book is one opportunity to awaken. You found it within your slumber to ensure that you could return to reality, and not lose yourself in the depths of slumber. To explain it better, please allow me an analogy: Imagine that you are dreaming, and in your dream, the phone rings. You have two choices: one, to integrate that call in your dream, and dream that you answer the phone; thus, the dream continues. The second choice is to assume that the call is from a place outside your dream (reality), and that you need to wake up to take the call. Your choice.

We are all called to wake up (not one, but multiple times); not all of us, however, opt to do so (not one, but multiple times). What is soothing is that the finale of this little theater is already decided. And it is a happy ending (better than that), because it could not be any other way.

The enlightened coach knows that we are all equally powerful, and exert our powers as a choice, that has to be respected. The enlightened coach does not undervalue or overvalue anyone, because he or she has specifically awakened, and remembers the feeling of non-separation. He or she knows that is the destiny of all human beings, sooner or later. He or she patiently awaits, in the knowledge that time is an irrelevant variable, there is no first or last.

What happens from now on depends on what you decide. This book may be a phone call within the dream, or a phone call from outside the dream. In the first case, you will read it and keep dreaming; in the second case, you will read it and awaken.

Lastly, let us look at the difference, if there is one, between awakening and enlightenment: enlightenment is produced when awakening does not relapse, when it is maintained and permanent. To simplify it:

Awakening: to remember who and what you are (what you have always been). Theory. Provisional state.

Enlightenment: to reflect that understanding in your everyday life. Practice. Permanent state.

When awakening takes place, the desire to be someone other than yourself ceases completely.