Rizwan Virk
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3,730 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 17 Jun
Rizwan Virk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so he needed to come up with a new way to describe that to Americans because most Americans didn't have karma in 1920.
Yeah.
They wouldn't know those terms.
And so he came up with a technology metaphor because we're a technological civilization.
And he said, look, it's like a film, which was new technology, the latest technology at the time was like in the films.
And he said, we are projecting onto the screen and the characters in the movie might be suffering, but the actors don't die.
And he would tell his students to look away from the screen and look at the light that's projecting.
Now, a couple of years ago, HarperCollins India came to me and asked me to write a book for the 75th anniversary of Audubon for the Yogi, which was like Steve Jobs' favorite book.
And the Beatles used to hand it out.
All like the boomers and the hippie generation, they used to like hand out this book all the time.
In fact, I met a guy.
He says, yeah, I was in Haight-Ashbury.
Somebody gave me a copy of this book.
I read it.
I gave it to somebody else.
So they really did that.
But they wanted me to write about some of those lessons.
And I said, are you sure?
You know, I write about technology and I like to reference people like Yolanda.
Yeah, it's a big ask.
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