About Ricardo Chin
Prior to his personal awakening, spiritual life coach and author Ricardo Chin found himself repeatedly questioning the meaning of everything. From an early age, he had faced challenges and hardships that left him struggling to make sense of existence and his place within it. And, while growing up, everywhere he looked he saw an abundance of suffering, darkness and hurt in the world. Feeling depressed and disconnected, both from himself and everyone else, he kept wondering, “What is the point of life?”, “Who am I”, and “Why am I here?”.
It’s okay for my life to turn out exactly the way that it’s going to, because this is the journey!
Ricardo’s single mother struggled to raise her family as best she could but inner-city London could be a violent place to grow up. By the time he’d left high school, Ricardo feared for his personal safety and began carrying an axe for protection from his enemies. It was a move that led to him losing his position on a youth training scheme to become an electrician. Instead, he joined the Royal Marine Commandos, and signed up with two aims in mind. One, to find his identity in the military, and two, to kill people in order to inflict his own unique form of suffering back into the world.
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He had yet to realise it, but by joining the Royal Marine Commandos, Ricardo unconsciously accepted the challenge to embark upon the most ancient of quests: the hero’s journey. While it wasn’t the military service itself that would bring about the profound transformation of mind and soul, it was the catalyst for this ultimately to happen. After completing 30 weeks’ Royal Marines Commando training in 2002, Ricardo was deployed to the Kuwaiti desert, joining the Iraq War. Also posted to Northern Ireland, he was then deployed to Afghanistan, where he was wounded in action. While being operated on to repair the damage caused by the bullet that had passed through his shoulder, Ricardo refused pain relief to win a bet with a fellow Marine – to see who could “take injury or death in the least emotional manner”.
In this book, I rarely mention my name and that is because it is just a name. It certainly has nothing to do with who I truly am.
Leaving the military in 2012, after recovering from his injury, Ricardo moved into close protection in post-war Iraq. But the same insecurities went with him; despite the uniforms he had worn, despite the camaraderie he had found, and despite the duties he had to perform, he was no closer to finding the truth and purpose he so desperately sought. In 2019, he would visit South America to learn ancient tribal wisdom. Discovering an array of traditional plant medicine, he began his journey inwards, guided by shamans and an emerging sense of self. This would really start to reveal itself in 2022 when, while sat in a B6 armoured vehicle in Iraq reading A New Earth by Eckart Tolle, he experienced a ‘spiritual intervention’. Taught lessons about love, death, identity and the purpose of life, Ricardo was able to see our existence from a radically different, and deeper, perspective – one that has given value to all experiences, even those that are labelled as bad, negative or unwanted.
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A Few Words from an Absolute Nobody is the record of one man’s inspirational journey from unconsciousness to awakening, with profound lessons for all of humanity.