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Hi, Josh.

Hey, Bob.

How are you doing?

I'm not complaining.

How are you?

Good.

You know, I know we're going to be talking about this, but I feel like this, this, this, this conversation marks a transition point in your own mission.

Oh, good.

I need one.

My mission needs one.

Do you feel, do you sense your, your, your impending bodhisattvahood?

Oh, you know, maybe we should, for, for, for, for, for, for, for a non-Buddist listeners explain that a bodhisattvahood? Oh, you know, maybe we should, for our non-Buddhist listeners, explain that a bodhisattva is someone who is,

now is it technically like they're on the verge of enlightenment, they could have enlightenment,

it's within their grasp, but enlightenment, true enlightenment would take them away from their

mundane mission of going around and helping people.

So they refrain from getting fully enlightened and just entering nirvana and spend their time helping.

That's the idea, right?

I think that's one conception of it, right?

They forego their own enlightenment to put their energy. Well, God knows

I forgone my own enlightenment. How do I do the rest? Now you go about helping everybody else.

I mean, by foregone, I don't mean I had the option. I just mean I have not achieved it.

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