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

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to do with anything, including the one that is
aware of it, then . . . ?
Student: Nothing_______(silence)_______
Wolinsky: Okay. Now if the concept called “my” consciousness
believed in the concept called an umbrella
and an ultimate virtue and a thing that runs
through the body that is aware of it, and the
counter concepts called confusion, figuring it
out, and action and the concept called “I can’t
get it,” the concept called “they should be able
to have this ideal, but of course they can’t get it,
but I should be able to have that, but of course, I
can’t get it, but after all two points meet to join
and form a new thing,” then how could another
concept called “my” consciousness deceive this
concept called “my” consciousness?
Student: By trying to create even more of a structure.
Wolinsky: Any particular concept called “my” consciousness
that might do that? Past, present or future?
Student: Sure. I don’t know who because it so just there.
It is not a who in particular, but there is a really.
. . well, let’s say the experience of morality for
example, that gets communicated somehow that
we take on. That this consciousness takes on and
believes it is necessary for its functioning.
Wolinsky: So, this other concept called “my” consciousness
had or has a virtuous concept called morality,
which is now kind of a subtle expectation from
“my” consciousness to this “other” consciousness
that it has some kind of virtue of morality,
correct? And how does this “my” consciousness
respond to that?
Student: Yes!!!