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

Student: It is not.
The Concept of the skandhas / 201
of mental functioning, what is consciousness
unwilling to say?
Wolinsky: If not and is 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 is a YOU concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, which
believes in the concept of mental functioning,
what is the concept called “my” consciousness
unwilling to know?
Student: That it is all one substance and is not.
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: _______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: If there is a YOU concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of I am, which
believes in the concept of mental functioning,
is there anything this concept called “my” consciousness
is unwilling to experience?
Student: That it is not and is pure NOTHINGNESS.
Wolinsky: If not and nothingness were just concepts of
the concept called “my” consciousness, which