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

Instead it is essential toreceive the right key to “your”door applied in the right momentin space-time to “liberate” the“you” you imagine yourself tobe. “I” know personally in mycase my teacher Sri NisargadattaMaharaj said to me one day quiteunexpectedly, “fluids cometogether and the I Am appears.” Atfirst glance, for another personwho might be sitting next to me,(one of the other five or sixpeople in the room), this mightnot have any meaning at all.However, Maharaj’s Enquiry Koanwhich he applied to me as he did,sent a piece of “my” consciousnessinto the world of neuroscienceleaving me with basic experientialYoga understandings that “I” wasnot “I”, that “I” and the sense ofbeing a person separate from otherpersons occurred through fluidsin the brain coming together, andthat there was no cause or effect,doership or location. In short,as he said to me, “It’s all anillusion.”Moreover, during the same timeperiod he told an India disciple14