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

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been the issue. So I think that I had, I think that
has been the issue.
Wolinsky: Would it be fair to say and check me if I am
wrong, that the concept called “my” consciousness
gets fixated or focuses on the concept of
death with others to avoid the fact that it eventually
will not be?
Student: That is true.
Wolinsky: Now this concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of death, the concept
called gain and loss, existence and non-existence,
the concept called resisting its own death.
If all of these concepts where made of the same
consciousness, which had nothing to do with
anything in particular, including the one that is
aware of this same consciousness then, . . . ?
Student: It just all disappears.
Wolinsky: If the concept called “my” consciousness were
to believe this whole thing here, what could “it”
do to itself?
Student: If it were to believe all these other things, what
could it do to itself? Well, it could build a big
wall around itself as a way to protect itself from
having any of these concepts disturbed. It is like
it has to stay alive.
Wolinsky: Does it also have to stay like in a form?
Student: A form, yes, so that it could maintain its separateness.
Wolinsky: So separateness equals existence and not death,
is that correct?