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Clean Hands

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A participant in the big public talk on Wednesday night in Zürich, three nights ago, sent her personal photo from the event.

The particular lighting of this one made it kind of funny …

More photos from this event of sharing will follow, in the coming days.

Joscha is God

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This unavoidable balance is noteworthy, especially noteworthy coming from one of the West’s greatest living pure and truthful exploratory minds. Much of what we consume or already experience, whether declared harmful or dangerous, are the government’s view of that only, or not: coffee, cigarettes, musical stimulation, readily accessible endorphin-producing foods, Internet porn, Netflix, anything that stimulates us artificially.

“More drugs? / fewer drugs?”

Sitting here now with a double espresso, some minutes from endorphin-producing deep, silent meditation, I fail these tests utterly, all the time.