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

The Veil of the Concept of the eight-Fold Path / 207
In Section III we will discuss Samadhi without seeds,
which is “beyond” and not a state or thing. For now, suffice
to say that Samadhi with seeds is “arrived” at through some
form of “spiritual practice,” which a meditator-“I” imagines
“it” does.
Samadhi without seeds just appears, or better said, disappears
(hard to express in language); but there is no “I” that
can do it. In other words, all states of Samadhi are states, and
are I am and awarer dependent—hence, THEY ARE NOT
IT!!!! They are subtle substructures intermittently of the I am,
and ultimately are not even nothingness, and ARE NOT.
THE lAST STEp in RAjA YOGA iS SAMADHi—
(DERivED fROM AnD WHiCH inClUDES SEEDS).
WiTHOUT THinkER SEnSOR knOWER OR “AWAR-
ER,” THiS iS SAMADHi WiTHOUT SEEDS. HOWEvER,
if THERE iS nO “AWARER,
THEn THERE iS nO AWAREnESS,
AnD nO YOGA.
SOME pEOplE SAY, “iT’S All AWAREnESS.”
HOWEvER, if EvERYTHinG WAS AWAREnESS,
THERE WOUlD BE nO AWAREnESS. WHY?
BECAUSE THERE WOUlD BE nOBODY THERE
TO SAY THAT SUCH A THinG AS THiS COnCEpT
CAllED AWAREnESS EXiSTED.
THEREfORE, All AWAREnESS iMpliES An “AWAR-
ER” COnCEpT, lOCATiOn,
AnD pOinT Of ORiGin.
HEnCE, if THERE iS nO “AWARER,” THERE iS
nO AWAREnESS, nO lOCATiOn,
AnD nO pOinT Of ORiGin.