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

The Concept of the skandhas / 189
an energy of its own, it cannot stop, what must
the concept called “my” consciousness not experience?
Student: _______(Long silence).
EnQUiRY inTO THE nATURE
Of THE COnCEpT Of vOliTiOn
Wolinsky: How does the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, define
volition?
Student: Will, self-determined movement.
Wolinsky: What assumptions has the concept called “my”
consciousness, which believes in the concept
of I am made about will and self-determined
movement?
Student: That that’s “what is,” or what it was told it
was.
Wolinsky: If these were just concepts of the concept 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 has
nothing to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: How has the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, which believes
in the concepts of will and self-determined
movement, deceived itself?