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virginal mattress. Hello, O-Mote of Divine Consciousness,

temporarily trapped in a super-advanced bio-computer.

It's me, Duncan Trustle, and you are listening to the Duncan Trustle Family

Hour podcast. Hello. What do you say we go really deep right away with a reading

from Chogium Trumper. The basic problem we seem to be facing is that we are

too involved with trying to prove something, which is connected with paranoia and

the feeling of poverty. When you are trying to prove or get something, you are not

open anymore. You have to check everything. You have to arrange it correctly. It is

such a paranoid way to live, and it really does not prove anything. One might set

records in terms of numbers and quantities that we have built the greatest, the

biggest we have collected the most, the longest, the most gigantic. But who is

going to remember the record when you are dead? We're in 100 years. We're in 10

years. We're in 10 minutes. The records that count are those of the given moment.

Of now, whether or not communication and openness are actually taking place now.

This is the open way. The Bodhisattva path. A Bodhisattva would not care even if he received a

medal from all the Buddhas proclaiming him the bravest Bodhisattva in the entire universe.

He would not care at all. He never reads stories of the Bodhisattvas receiving medals in the sacred

writings and quite rightly so because there is no need for them to prove anything. The Bodhisattvas

action is spontaneous. It is the open life, open communication which does not involve struggle

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