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

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concept of movement, if they are all separate
concepts, then . . . ?
Student: I don’t get any words.
Wolinsky: If the concept called an “awarer,” believed in the
concept of life, the concept of death, the concept
of movement, the concept of a starting point, a
forward and a backward, a concept of an evolution
or change from one thought to another,
one level to another—if it believed in all those
concepts, what would be the consequences for
the concept called the “awarer” if it were to
believe all of that?
Student: You would have to stay on the move, you would
have to be in perpetual motion, you would have
to be moving, need to move to breathe, you need
to move to learn, you need to move to survive.
It is all there together, it is constant.
Wolinsky: Now, if the “awarer,” believed in the concept of
“I” have to move in order to survive, moving
from one space to another space, evolution from
here to there, process in motion, forward and
backward, a starting point, an ending point, and
that the breathing and life and death concepts
were all separated; if breath and movement were
separate concepts—if all of these were separate
concepts made of the same consciousness, all of
which had nothing to do with anything, then .
. . ?
Student: I am not getting any words but what I am getting
is like a big blinding light, but you can’t look
at it, because it is blinding; you have to look to
the side, like the sun can be blinding. You have
to look aside. There are no words for it.