You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

86 / You Are Not
Abstractions must be negated.
THE nERvOUS SYSTEM CREATES ABSTRACTiOnS,
WHiCH pRODUCE MEAninGS
WHERE THERE ARE nOnE.
“THE THREE liMiTinG COnDiTiOnS ARE A kinD
Of liMiTED, viTiATED knOWlEDGE ROOTED in
WORDS WHiCH HAvE A TREMEnDOUS inflUEnCE
On OUR livES. THESE WORDS ARE fORMED Of lET-
TERS (knOWn AS MATRkA). THE MATRkA (WORDS
AnD lETTERS), THEREfORE, fORMS THE BASiS Of
All liMiTED knOWlEDGE.”
(Siva Sutras, p. xvii)
An ABSTRACTiOn iS An ABSTRACTiOn
Of nOTHinGnESS
All iS An ABSTRACTiOn Of THE nOTHinGnESS.
A COnDEnSATiOn; BUT STill nOTHinGnESS.
THE BODY AS A lEnS
The body is not without a perceiver of the body. It is in
this way that the perceiver of the body cannot be separated
from the body itself. The nervous system is a lens that omits,
selects-out and views its own reality, solidness, and organization
out of the NOTHINGNESS.
ARE YOU fEElinG “WHAT iS” THERE,
OR YOUR iDEAS ABOUT “WHAT iS” THERE?