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

The Concept of the skandhas / 179
is aware of it and it all has nothing to do with
anything, then . . . ?
Student: It’s getting a little harder to grasp.
Wolinsky: Regarding this sound concept, what must the
concept called “my” consciousness, which believes
in the concept of I am, not know?
Student: That it all isn’t.
Wolinsky: If these were just concepts of the concept called
“my” consciousness, which believes in the concept
of “I” and were made of the SAME underlying
SUBSTANCE including the “awarer,” which
is aware of it, and it all has nothing to do with
anything, then . . . ?
Student: It’s like little specks of consciousness dissolving
in a cloud.
Wolinsky: If these were just concepts of the concept of the
concept called “my” consciousness, which believes
in the concept of I am and were made of the SAME
underlying SUBSTANCE including the “awarer,”
which is aware of it and it all has nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Student: _____________(Long silence).
Wolinsky: Regarding all those sound concepts, what must
the concept called “my” consciousness, which believes
in the concept of I am not experience?
Student: That there is no experience or knowledge or
information, that an experience took place if
there was no sound.
Wolinsky: If these were just concepts of the concept of
the concept called “my” consciousness, which
believes in the concept of I am and were made