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

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are not my thoughts. So why botherminding them?Wave-Station Five:<strong>The</strong> Belief that I am in thepresence, present time or Now,or that there is a presence,present time or Now, orbeingness.In this wave-station the space islabeled as presence or presenttime or Now. Although this is“forward” <strong>of</strong> Wave-Station Four(the space) it is placed “here”because as the space appears thereis a “rapid” labeling <strong>of</strong> the spaceas Now, presence, present moment,or the illusion <strong>of</strong> beingness etc.Subtly this state might carry withit the sense <strong>of</strong> ownership, with aslight identification with “me”,As If “I” can be or “I am” in theNOW or am in present time, orpresence, or am a being.<strong>The</strong> problem here is, as we believethis, there is a tendency to“move-ripple forward”(loop) intothe state <strong>of</strong> “my” presence or“my beingness”, the belief in aNow, (with its subtext that Now140

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