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

The Bhakti Illusion / 217
Student: “I” become less solid, it makes me a little thing
in the universe, it’s a good feeling, as if all the
solidness gives a certain fear of losing it all.
Wolinsky: This I am concept, which believes in the concept
of mother, earth, feminine, not masculine, being
the center of everything, nurturing, solid,
important. What has that I am concept done to
another I am concept, and what did that I am
create in response to this I am?
Student: The I am is my mother (birth), mom, mother
earth stories, take care of, etc.
Wolinsky: So there’s a lineage here. This I am (pointing to
her) had to take it on to keep the lineage going?
If this I am did not believe that (her mom) I am
concept, which believes in the concept of mother,
earth, earth is mother, feminine, not masculine,
being the center of everything, nurturing, solid,
important, certain, must take care of, etc. If that
I am concept realized it was just a concept, which
had nothing to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: “I” disappear.
Wolinsky: If that I am concept were to believe this I am
concept, which believes in the concept of mother,
earth, feminine, not masculine, being the center
of everything, nurturing, solid, important, certain,
take care of, etc. What has this concept of
I am done to itself?
Student: Taking on all this stuff, being busy all the
time.
Wolinsky: If these were all concepts of I am and had nothing
to do with anything, then . . . ?