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

192 / You Are Not
Wolinsky: If all of this 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 had nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Student: The NOTHINGNESS.
Wolinsky: Why?
Student: Because it’s beyond consciousness, and consciousness
will disappear.
Wolinsky: If appear and disappear 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 has
nothing to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: NOTHINGNESS.
EnQUiRY inTO THE nATURE
Of THE COnCEpT Of ATTEnTiOn
Wolinsky: How does the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, define
attention?
Student: Attention is how consciousness focuses itself
through a concentration of itself forming a lens
to view through.
Wolinsky: What assumptions has the concept called “my”
consciousness, which believes in the concept of
I am, made about attention, which is how consciousness
focuses itself through a concentration
of itself forming a lens to view through?