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

The Concept of the skandhas / 187
underlying SUBSTANCE including the “awarer,”
which is aware of it and it has nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Student: There’s a pulsation, which I can witness.
Wolinsky: Regarding the concept of an act that has to be
done without choice or free will and that it
has an energy of its own, it cannot stop, it has
to be done, what has the concept called “my”
consciousness, which believes in the concept of
I am, done to itself?
Student: Assumed it was, that it had to be done, it told
itself that it couldn’t stop, justified it and reacted.
Wolinsky: Why would the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, do
all of that?
Student: I don’t know, it just did.
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 had nothing to do with
anything, then . . . ?
Student: Pulsating and witnessing the pulsation.
Wolinsky: If even the pulsation was a 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 has and had nothing
to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: Stillness.