The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

doing, and by the illusioned doingas if they will get a desiredoutcome.The imagined “I” compares,strategizes, organizes, judges,evaluates and makes things moresignificant than other things. Theautomatic mechanism is reactivatedby taking imagined pictures of thepast and projecting them into thefuture. Thus acting in such a wayas to believe that there is anorganization, a cause-and-effect,a reason for what is done andwhat is received, and that it isthe doer who has a choice and cansomehow participate in and controloutcomes. This is all a part ofthe abstracted-wave.What is automatically perceivedas what I do not want or do wantorganizes into strategic systemsin an attempt to get desiredoutcomes.Of course whatever the desiredoutcome is, is not what onethought it would be, or whatone imagined or felt one wouldexperience by getting the desiredoutcome.112