I have a new book coming out in the next two months. The title: " it is... " and the subtitle " A Category of 1 ". Here's the back cover copy-- From the Athens of Socrates to the Japan of Dogen, from the India of the Diamond Sutra to the Prussia of Schopenhauer, from the China of Lao Tzu to the Australia of Sailor Bob Adamson — across 2,500 years, eight traditions, and six continents, the same un-nameable recognition has been arriving. Not as doctrine. Not as belief. As the simple, direct pointing at what was always already here. Every sage, every tradition, every era: different words, different forms, different centuries. One recognition. It was never lost. It was never hidden. It waited in stillness, the quiet roar of silence heard. This is that resonant vessel for the 21st century. it is does not add a new teaching to the ancient stream. It delivers the same vibrant water the stream has always carried — through the format the contemporary mind can actually receive: a documented archive of witnessed impossibilities, a self-dissolving institutional framework that evicts the seeking enterprise using the seeking enterprise's own tools, and a humor architecture that dissolves what argument cannot reach. Twelve ancient voices confirmed it across 2,500 years. Twelve documented reveals confirm it across a lifetime in Kauai. The recognition is the same. The delivery mechanism is contemporary. What Socrates called knowing nothing. What Lao Tzu called the Tao that cannot be named. What Dogen called the being-time of this moment. What the Diamond Sutra called the gateless gate. What Gopi Krishna called the staggering inexplicable supreme experience. What Sailor Bob called the effortless natural functioning happening without any thought. What two modern day ordinary people experienced within their Now — Bill at his birthday party, as Presence resolved and reframed all questions. And Mary after just one question and response session, guided by the whisper of her actuality to the beer she really needed in that moment. The same. Always the same. Two lowercase words. No throne. No capital. No spiritual IPO.

Okay I just re-read the light of being for the second time. The first time was years ago and I did not get it. But today it answered a very fundamental question of mine which was- I know there is no free will, so going on from there I could not understand how awakening could occur by me - By my reasoning I could only conclude it has to be written in the script also - and would come 😁 when it was programmed or written in to come. The page on awareness answered something that for me seemed an insurmountable hurdle to awakening, and would have completely prevented me from awakening as I thought I had to wait and had no control over it.