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

290 / You Are Not
Student: Everything is bullshit.
Wolinsky: Why would the concept called “my” consciousness
be unwilling to communicate that all this
is bullshit?
Student: Because even the concept of consciousness
wouldn’t be anymore if it realized that.
Wolinsky: And if the concepts of “be” and “not be” were
made of the same substance, which had nothing
to do with anything, then . . . ?
Student: Just concept_______blank_______(silence).
Wolinsky: If the concept called “my” consciousness believed
in the concept of beyond and the concept of
location and space, place, paradise, and paths,
movements to get you to this place where you
want to live, and “be” and “not be,” what would
the concept called “my” consciousness be unwilling
to know about?
Student: That there’s nothing to know.
Wolinsky: Why would “my” consciousness be unwilling to
know that there’s nothing to know?
Student: It wants to grasp something, it wants to have a
point of condensation.
Wolinsky: And if all those concepts, which include it wants
to grasp something, wants to have a point of
condensation, if those were made of the same
substance, which had nothing to do with anything,
then . . . ?
Student: . . . just emptiness.
Wolinsky: And if the concept called “my” consciousness
believed in the concept of beyond, location,