218 / You Are Not
Student:
“I” disappear.
Wolinsky: This I am concept, which believes in the concept of mother, earth, earth is mother, feminine, not masculine, being the center of everything, nurturing, solid, important, certain, take care of, etc. How has this I am concept deceived another I am concept? Student:
Took a lot of responsibility from other I am’s, feels like we must take care of.
Wolinsky: If the concept of taking care of was a concept of I am and had nothing to do with anything, then ...? Student:
_______Nothing_______(Silence).
Wolinsky: This I am concept, which believes in the concept of earth is mother, mother, earth, feminine, not masculine, being the center of everything, nurturing, solid, important, take care of, etc. How has this I am concept deceived itself? Student:
It imagined that all those mother earth stories were true and had to be acted out.
Wolinsky: And if all those stories were just concepts of I am and had nothing to do with anything, then ...? Student:
_______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: How does the concept of earth, which this I am concept believes, like the concept of mother, earth, feminine, not masculine, being the center of everything, nurturing, solid, important, take care of, etc. How does this I am concept seem now? Student:
It’s gone.