"Woke" has undeniably become a charged word that is now giving rise to division and not unity. In this fascinating re-examination of our world and its history. Madhava Setty resurrects the original sense of the word as it was attributed to a certain individual known as The Buddha who claimed that an awake mind suffers less. In other words, when seen clearly, reality itself is compassionate. Could this really be true? To loosely quote the Buddha, "You have to see it for yourself." Are we completely misconceiving reality? What does an Anesthesiologist with 18 years of experience of "putting people to sleep" have to say about being truly awake? Book jacket.