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

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separate, walls, and so on, they are all separate
concepts which had nothing to do with anything,
then . . . ?
Student: This is kind of disappears, everything just kind
of disappears into nothingness. It is gone.
Wolinsky: Prior to the emergence of this concept called
“my” consciousness, are you?
Student: No.
Wolinsky: Okay.
Student: So I can see how the whole false identity of “not
exists” is so woven in with death.
Wolinsky: Now this concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in this whole universe, everything
from complex, as it exists, not complex as
death, complex on and on and on. How could
the concept called “my” consciousness deceive
itself?
Student: Well, it is all a deception. The whole thing is a
deception.
Wolinsky: Tell me a deception the concept of “my” consciousness
could pull over on itself.
Student: The deception is, it is important to exist at all
costs and to formulate all these ideas in order
to further the cause.
Wolinsky: The cause of existence?
Student: Of course, existence.
Wolinsky: So, this is how it deceives itself.
Student: Yes.