Hello everybody, it's me, Doug Atrustle, and you're listening to the Doug Atrustle Family

Our Podcast.

This is a special podcast helping out the Love Server Member Foundation, so we're not

going to do any commercials or anything like that.

We're just going to start off with a great Rom Dass talk, and it's about 30 minutes, and

then after that, we're going to have a conversation with Ragu Marcus, who is the director of the

Love Server Member Foundation, which is Rom Dass' foundation.

So there you go, Hare Krishna, and see on the other side.

In every tradition, there is crazy wisdom in the, there are the crazy psychics, there

are the monks laughing at the moon and Zen Buddhism.

In Sufism, there is a long tradition of that, and one of the best examples is somebody

called Nuss Root.

It's one of his names, and there are many stories about Nuss Root and this people can make

up.

I don't know how many actually happen.

But there is a story of Nuss Root going into a bank, a cashy check, it was a large check,

and the teller looked at the check, Nuss Root was very disreputable looking fellow, and

the teller looked at the check, and the check looked alright, but Nuss Root didn't,

and finally he said, well, sir, the check seems fine, but can you identify yourself?

In Nuss Root and reached in with his pocket, he pulled out a mirror and he looked at the

yoke.

Now it's interesting how subtle and yet how formal our identities are, and how much we

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