A Light Unto Your Self: Self Discovery Through Investigation of Experience

€˜By observing mental states you also become aware of the seven factors of enlightenment. These are: awareness of awareness, investigation of the Way, vigour, joy, serenity, concentration and equanimity.€
(The Buddha, Maha Sattipatthana Sutta 14-16)
The first two are paramount and the last five are outcomes of these. This is what this book is all about, becoming €˜aware of awareness€ through direct investigation and then continuing with further €˜investigation of the Way€ (the Tao, the nature of reality). Once one is aware of awareness then one can become €˜A Light Unto Yourself€ by undertaking further investigations not needing to relying on any €˜teachings€, although these may be useful for confirming what one has discovered.

Comments from Peter Signell on the Author:

€˜I know Colin Drake through his magnificent writing.€
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Comments by Chris Sullivan:

Eckhart Tolle and Osho and many other authors, spiritual teachers and gurus are profoundly important, helpful and illuminating but Colin Drake is something else....he's significantly better at explaining spiritual awakening and how to effect enlightenment and maintain it permanently. Colin Gives the essential facts and tries not to befuddle the reader. He is very experienced with years and years of direct experience of being on the spiritual path and also crucially of enlightenment itself..