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

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condensation yielding activity, the game—if you
believed all of these, what would it be unwilling
to experience? Gain or loss, get something,
concept of frustration, if it believed all this stuff,
what would it be unwilling to experience?
Student: Whatever I did not want to experience. Somehow,
I am looking for something. Actually, so many
things.
Wolinsky: Okay, so if the concept called “my” consciousness,
which you are not supposed to talk about, the
concept called “awarer,” which you shouldn’t talk
about, the concept called consciousness, which
you shouldn’t talk about, the concept called I
am, which you shouldn’t talk about, the concept
called condensation process which forms the
activity and you shouldn’t talk about that, the
concept called meaninglessness and meaningful,
and the concept called useless and the concept
called useful, the concept called grief, the concept
called life, concept called “awarer”—if all of these
concepts were made of the SAME SUBSTANCE,
including the one that was aware of it, and it all
had nothing to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: Laughter_____________NOTHINGNESS.
EnQUiRY inTO THE nATURE Of THE COnCEpT
Of SATTvA: pURiTY, HARMOnY, COMpOSURE
The concept of a force called Sattva can be described as
purity, pure reason, harmony, composure. Moreover, it is an
ideal of a “high virtue,” which is always true, regardless of the
situation. (See Section II on the Virtues Trap for an enquiry
on the virtue of pure reason).