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

226 / You Are Not
Student: By the concept of self, by saying I am.
Wolinsky: Now if the concept called I am came from the
substance contracting, and it is all made of the
same substance, which has nothing to do with
anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______(Silence). There is a sensation in the
head, like a vacuum cleaner that is absorbing
everything, a nowhere, . . . NOTHING.
Wolinsky: If this concept of a head, concept of a vacuum,
concept of a NOTHING, including the knower of
all of that, were all made of the same underlying
consciousness then, . . . ?
Student: _______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: Now if the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes all of these concepts (of a) causal
body in “is” and “not is” were all made of the
same substance, which had nothing to do with
anything, then . . . ?
Student: _______(Silence). This is like going back, . . .
much more comfortable.
Wolinsky: Now if the concept called “my” consciousness
believed in the concept of I am, the concept of
“is” and “not is,” concept of light, body, instincts
and senses, concept of subtle body, causal body,
eternal life, a nothing that contracts, something
from a thing called a head—if all of these ideas,
concepts were made of the SAME underlying
SUBSTANCE including the knower and the
“awarer,” then . . . ?
Student: _______(Silence).
Wolinsky: If this concept called “my” consciousness, which
believes in the concept of head and the concept