Thanks for stopping by. This is Josh.

Darmapunks, New York.

We meet the first Tuesday of every month at Grand Street Healing,

so that'll be in a couple weeks.

If you're around New York, please stop by.

7 o'clock Tuesday at 105 Grand Street.

At the end of May, Memorial Day weekend, I believe that's from the 26 to the 28th, something like that.

We'll be up at Omega Institute.

A nice crowd going, but please, if you're looking for something to do,

it's pretty easy to get up there. If you're interested, look at Omega Institute,

and we'll, of course, be having our year, our Labor Day retreat at Gerson. We've been doing that. I don't know how many years it's

been probably 10. If you'd like to support my work, as everything I do is entirely supported

by your generosity, little generosity of people who listen to the podcasts and people who do the counseling with the Venmo's Darmapunks with an ex-NYC,

and the PayPal and the Patreon are on the Dharma Punks with an XNYC.com.

So that's about it. Let's jump in.

Every once in a while, I like to dive into talks that sort of cover the more philosophical realm rather than the psychological.

Of course they overlap.

Today we're going to be doing a kind of, for me, I think it's a bit of a fun topic

on the absurdity of life and why that's actually not a bad thing.

Great philosophers from Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Thomas Nagel,

even Schopenhauer, great writers like Samuel Beckett, and Eugene

Inesco reached the conclusion that life is fundamentally absurd. What does that mean? Well, it's similar to Nealism, but it's different as well.

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