Victor Vescovo

Brian Gumbel interviewed me, and he called me a Vulcan.

If I can't know something, I don't worry about it.

It comes down to faith.

And you either have faith or you don't have faith or you don't even ask the question.

And I'm kind of in that realm where I appreciate every day as much as I can.

I experience all that I can.

I try and be a good person.

I try and advance technology as best I can to help other people.

But what happens after we die?

I'll find out.

I'm a Zen Buddhist.

What is that?

Zen Buddhism is based on the premise that meditation is a doorway that everything is connected and that through direct experience, we can have commonality with each other, with the world, with the universe.

And so it does have many common strains, but there are Zen Buddhists who are also Christians, that they can kind of meld the two philosophies.

And it also tries to emphasize that human language is a barrier to truly understanding the world as it really is.

You have to have it through direct experience, hence all the jokes about Zen Buddhism and the riddles that they tell each other.

They're actually trying to do that to show that human language has great limitations to explain the nature of the universe, the nature of the human condition and spirituality.

You have to do it more directly.

So very difficult to explain Zen Buddhism in a sentence or two, but that's part of it.

It just fits my personality.