Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: This is on the local radio station?
TRIP: Yes, it is.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Nice one.
TRIP: There are maybe 10,000 people or so within the radio circle
of this station.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Well hello to everyone listening out
there. It is nice to be able to share with you.
TRIP: But it's not the numbers, it's the quality, and I don't mean
that some of us are quality, and some of us aren't. But some of us
have the quality of thirsting for our own realization, and for the
persistent realization, and if just one of those people is listening,
I'm thrilled.
WIZARD: Yes.
TRIP: I've got so many questions for you, Prasad; I've got a couple
more here. You ready?
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Yes.
TRIP: All right. Your presence on this program is an answer to
this question, but this is something I've struggled with. You and
the Wizard are big users of social media, now some people swear
by it, and others swear at it. Are social media an instrument by
which people can truly further their spiritual practice, and by
practice, I mean simply being, or is it a big distraction?
Now the reason I ask that is that even though, for example,
through the social media we found you, and now we're having this
wonderful Satsang, I find that when I'm on social media my mind
is enjoined by the words and by the activity of using the computer,
and that's really not being empty headed, and simply present. So
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