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

The Concept of the skandhas / 171
Wolinsky: If the concept called an “awarer” were to believe
in the concept called starting point, ending point,
backwards, and forwards, the concept of movement,
the concept of death and survival, the
concept of movement, the concept of evolution,
one thing changing into another thing, if an I
am believes all of that, what could the concept
called I am do to itself?
Student: Well, perpetual motion machine—rolling, just
keep moving, just keep moving.
Wolinsky: And prior to the “awarer”/I am concept which
believed in the concept of this, are you?
Student: No.
Wolinsky: And if all of these concepts were made of the
same consciousness, including the “awarer,”
which had nothing to do with anything, then .
. . ?
Student: ________(Silence)_______
Wolinsky: So, if an “awarer” concept had the belief in moving
from one point to another, the concept of
evolution, the concept of a life and birth, and
movement, and survival, and evolution of some
kind of consciousness, changing from one thing
to another, a starting point, a concept of I am
seeing, rather than it sees—all these concepts—if
it had all of that, how could the concept of an
“awarer” be deceived by another concept of an
“awarer”?
Student: No matter where you moved they would find
you.