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

Wolinsky: Why not?
The Concept of the skandhas / 185
Student: Because if it is not, it is not.
Wolinsky: If the concept of is and not were just concepts
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 images, thoughts, fantasies, ideas, even
emotions, perceivables—all “I’s”—what must the
concept called “my” consciousness, which believes
in the concept of I am, not experience?
Student: That it is not.
Wolinsky: Why not?
Student: Because if it is not, it is not.
Wolinsky: If is and not were just concepts 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).
THE MEnTAl fORMATiOn
MEnTAl iMpUlSES GROUp
Volition, attention, discrimination, joy, happiness,
equanimity, resolve, exertion, compulsion, concentration.