About 2500 years ago, Gautama Buddha lived and walked this earth for 45 years after his awakening. Many people took notes and presented them in various Sutras. One of the oldest was a fragmented work with such extreme viewpoints that it mainly sat on the shelf for the last 1400 years. This little book is the Buddha's words from that work, the Lankavatara Sutra, translated by D.T. Suzuki and transliterated for relatability. In short, the esoteric is minimized and the language modernized, then presented with prose/poetry demonstrating its potential. This is not a message you will have heard before. The Buddha instructs on listening, sudden awakening, duality, the stages of consciousness, and the physics, psychology, and biology of oneness. This message is about a non-separate reality, not as a metaphoric or philosophical term but as the reality of total interdependence and the natural enlightenment of a quiet, discerning mind. It seeks right understanding. Maybe you can relate. Free your mind, and save humanity. It's not too late.This short work has cut out everything but the marrow. So, there's not enough room to give sufficient credit to all the teachers, gurus, and enlightened masters for whom the author is and always will be, only a student and scribe. To honor them, the author uses only his ceremonial Tibetan name, given by Kalu Rinpoche in 1986.