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

The Veil of the Concept of the Gunas / 117
and it has to have rules that you can’t talk about,
and the condensation process in it, coming into
activity, and a life concept, and it’s crazy, and “I”
should not talk about consciousness, or “my”
consciousness, or I am consciousness— if all
of these were just concepts made of the SAME
underlying SUBSTANCE, all of which had nothing
to do with anything including the “awarer,”
then . . . ?
Student: I am afraid to say something.
Wolinsky: So tell me something you are afraid to say.
Student: All this effort, without anything to grasp, all these
years of effort, this is painful. Another thing is,
since the things that seem so obvious and clearcut
lose their border, and another thing is if they
lose their border, It just becomes inertia again,
let’s just disappear back into matter.
Wolinsky: Okay, two things, one is if we were to separate the
concept of inertia, which is obviously something
bad, condensation and inertia separated from the
concept of lazy—if these were separate concepts,
what occurs?
Student: Lazy seems something human, that you can allow
yourself, to fuse together.
Wolinsky: And finally, this concept called “my” consciousness
that believed in the concept called something
going on, believed in the concept of ONE
SUBSTANCE, the concept of I am, or not I am,
the concept of “awarer” or not “awarer,” the concept
of consciousness or not consciousness, the
concept of “my” consciousness, and “I” should
not talk about all of these, the concept called