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

There Is No Beyond / 291
space, concept of paradise, paths, striving to get
there, movements, being, not being, condensing,
not condensing—if the concept called “my”
consciousness believed all of that—what would
it be unwilling to experience?
Student: That it is all nonsense.
Wolinsky: And if all of these concepts, even the concept
of nonsense and not nonsense, were all part of
“my” consciousness, and even if the “I” that’s
hearing this and experiencing it also was made
of the same substance, which had nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Student: . . . just emptiness ______(silence )_______
(silence).
WE CAn USE THE WORD BEYOnD
TO DESCRiBE WHAT iS nOT.
“iT’S All An illUSiOn”
iS nOT A nEW STATEMEnT;
HOWEvER, iT lEAvES “OnE” iMAGininG
THAT EvERYTHinG “i” lOOk AT
iS An illUSiOn,
nOT REAliZinG THAT THE OnE WHO
iS lOOkinG iS pART Of THE
illUSiOn.
nO GAin, nO lOSS
A dear friend of mine, Karl Robinson, went to Nisargadatta
Maharaj and asked him, “Should I go back to America
or stay in India?” Maharaj replied,