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

200 / You Are Not
Wolinsky: How has this concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, which
believes in the concept of mental consciousness,
deceived itself?
Student: It imagined that it was separate from consciousness
and the object, thoughts, etc., were separate
from consciousness.
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 and had nothing
to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: If there was a YOU concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I
am, which believes in the concept of mental
functioning, what has “my” consciousness done
to itself?
Student: Believed that there was a YOU separate from
“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 had nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: Considering that there is a YOU concept called
“my” consciousness, which believes in the
concept of I am, which believes in the concept