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

The Concept of the skandhas / 193
Student: That the lens it looks through and all it looks at
are not consciousness.
Wolinsky: And what have been the consequences of that
for the concept called “my” consciousness?
Student: A world or differences.
Wolinsky: If these 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: There is only consciousness with a tube-like lens
floating in it.
Wolinsky: Regarding the concept called attention, which
is how the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, which
focuses itself through a concentration of itself
forming a lens to view through, how has concept
called “my” consciousness deceived itself?
Student: Imagining this lens, tube, was not it.
Wolinsky: If these 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: Only consciousness with a slight lens tube.
Wolinsky: Regarding attention, what has the concept called
“my” consciousness, which believes in the concept
of I am, which believes in the concept of I
am, which focuses itself through a concentration