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

Questions and Answers & exercises / 89
phers (Immanuel Kant for one) believed that space and time
were a priori, or existed prior to experience. Actually, the
concept of space and time appears with the I AM and the
perceiver or being itself and does not exist a priori (prior to
the experiencer–experience dyad). For “me” to be here now is
impossible since the “I” appears later and only imagines itself
in time. Paradoxically, Be here now is not possible, yet to be
here now would mean no-space (no here), no time (no now
as in past, present and future), and no Be (because there is
no separate being). Hence, BE here now IS NOT (Neti-Neti).
To be here now, we need to be in NO I AM–NO SPACE—NO
TIME—NO BEING. WOW!!!
In order to consider this shift, the question, Who AM
I? can be changed to What is “I”? Because the enquiry of
Who Am I? implies a who, or an “I” that I am. There is no
“I.” What is “I,” might “help” to address that the “I” is NOT,
thus eliminating the concept of “I” and the concept of “is.”
EnQUiRE:
WHAT IS “I”?