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

114 / You Are Not
Student: A game where all things work according to a
certain rule.
Wolinsky: And tell me a rule of the game.
Student: The first rule is elements of the game, and the
second rule makes it as intense and ecstatic as
possible.
Wolinsky: If this concept called “my” consciousness which
believed in the concept called I am, which believed
in the concept called rules and one of
them is to make it as ecstatic as possible, and
the game called condensation yielding activity
and all of this stuff, okay. Now if all of this stuff
was made of the same underlying consciousness,
including the concept called “alive,” including the
one that was aware of it, and it had nothing to
do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______Nothing_______Blank_______.
Wolinsky: Now if this concept called “my” consciousness
believed in this rule, and it has to be as ecstatic
as possible, and the game called condensation,
which becomes activity, and life and sadness
and death, how could the concept called “my”
consciousness deceive itself?
Student: You don’t want to go out and have activity and
energy—but everything is made of the SAME
SUBSTANCE.
Wolinsky: If that too, was another concept, which had
nothing to do with anything, then . . .?
Student: Really!!!!!
Wolinsky: So this concept called “my” consciousness believed
in the concept of rules of the game called
ecstatic and the rule called “you can’t discuss the