For a really get into this, I'm learning that there are people who in our Sangha who've read the Sangha email that went out last week about this being my last full year in Rochester, people who have read that who haven't heard the teisho that followed a couple of days later. And I really, I really implore you to hear the teisho there's so much more in the teisho than in that letter, the letter just just gives the bare bones of the matter. And I put so much work into that teisho filling out out and taking on all different kinds of aspects of this big change. And then talking of course about after So Shane says she's not a time to talk about you know, next month or next week or tomorrow. So she is we're going to be present in sesshin. But whatever if there are any, any kind of discomfort you feel. See if you can park that and tell you if you heard the teisho Let's start by reading a little biographical material about FOIA and this is from good old Andy Ferguson's Zen's Chinese heritage, the Masters in their teachings. And these are the masters in this book are all so all biographical information about the Tang Dynasty and Sung Dynasty masters for Yan is a Song Dynasty Song Dynasty began in roughly 1000, the year 1004 yawns Floriane live from the 11th to 12th century he was a disciple of Wu Tzu. And he says here and in Andy Ferguson's introduction, that that for Yan is one of the three illustrious students of Wu Tzu, who are known as the three Buddhas. I won't go off into who these other three were, I actually have barely heard of any of them, but each one of them has the their big name begins with fo fo, which it says in the footnote, means Buddha for young. At the young age of 14, four Yan accepted the Buddhist precepts or took Jukai. And then he went on to study the sutras and practice the tenets of the Vinaya. Then he is the the precepts studying of monastic precepts. In the Lotus Sutra, he read a passage that said, it is the Dharma that cannot be discerned by thinking that can be attained. That's a complex sentence, and we restructure it. What can be attained is the Dharma that cannot be discerned by thinking. This is before he got into Zen. He asked his vinyasa teacher for an explanation of the passage, but received no answer. foil on side and said doctrinal study can't resolve the great matter of life and death. And that's when he realized the limitations of sutra study and precept study says here Then he travelled south, that's in quotation marks. It was in the south of China, that all the action was going on in the Tang Dynasty and some died. So he traveled south and began training at the Dharma seat of Zen master named Ty poem typing. One day, as he was doing Takatsu that's making the men that can see rounds for arms as he was doing Takatsu during a rainstorm, he slipped and fell to the ground. And while he was in the mud, he overheard two men arguing fiercely nearby. One of them said, you're still defiling yourself. At these words for yawn had an insight.