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

The Veil of enlightenment / 273
Student: _____________(Long silence).
Wolinsky: Considering this concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of enquiry/
enquirer/negator, path to liberation, endpoint,
structurer, with the concept of guaranteed results
and truth beyond reason—with all of these—
what would the concept called “my” consciousness
be unwilling to experience?
Student: The disappearing of these concepts.
Wolinsky: Why would the concept called “my” consciousness
be unwilling to experience the disappearing
of all of these?
Student: . . . nothing to hold, it wouldn’t be_______
(Silence).
Wolinsky: This concept called “my” consciousness, which
believes in the concept of being and not being,
and believes in the concept of disappearance or
the concept of appearance, the concept of I AM,
the concept of enquiry/enquirer/negation process,
which leads to the concept of an endpoint
with a structurer, a filterer, and truth beyond
reason, and if the knower of all of that and the
“awarer” of all this were made of the underlying
same substance as all of this, and it had nothing
to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: (Laughs) . . . (Silence)