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

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292 / <strong>You</strong> <strong>Are</strong> <strong>Not</strong><br />

WHETHER YOU STAY in inDiA<br />

OR RETURn TO THE STATES,<br />

THERE Will BE nO GAin,<br />

THERE Will BE nO lOSS.<br />

This is pivotal: All “spiritual practice is done by an “I” to<br />

get something to reinforce its survival. If you are doing to<br />

get, it is ego yoga; if it just happens, it just happens.<br />

Student: If I do spiritual practice, won’t I get enlightened?<br />

<strong>Wolinsky</strong>: <strong>You</strong> keep on talking about enlightenment like it<br />

is a thing, a state, something to be gained.<br />

Student: Well, I don’t like the state I’m in, and when I have<br />

a good meditation state, I want to keep it.<br />

<strong>Wolinsky</strong>: <strong>You</strong> are beyond a state. States are by-products and<br />

reflections of I AM. They are not you. For this<br />

“I” you think you are there is a gain or getting<br />

a state and a loss like losing a state. Everything<br />

is ONE SUBSTANCE. How can something be<br />

gained or lost. What assumptions do you have<br />

about gain and loss?<br />

Student: That it is what is?<br />

<strong>Wolinsky</strong>: And if that was just a concept that had nothing<br />

to do with anything, then . . . ?<br />

Student: _______(Silence)_______

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