I was telling the folks at the workshop yesterday how a Sangha member recently told me that he was recently he was recently able to finally get a daily practice going really got some momentum. So he's been sitting every day. And he has a very stressful job. And, you know, prior to sitting regularly, you know, it was quite common that he would get really annoyed and irritated by his co workers, he found them to be obnoxious, you know, you get angry, really impatient with them. But once he got his sitting practice going, he noticed that he was a lot more calm, and relaxed around them, and wasn't really bothered by them. And more than that, he was interested in their lives, he was curious about them. And he found himself starting to get to know them, get to know them as individuals, instead of, you know, putting them in this box, you know, of being an annoying person. So, he has Zen can really help us to override that part of our brain functioning, that wants to filter the present through the past. And it does that by sharpening our attention to the present, flexing that muscle, keeping on returning, returning, returning. Then Keltner describes how the everyday activity of walking can be a source of art as well. And he says about what he says about walking is a good reminder about the power of Keene. He's been walking meditation as a bridge for practice while sitting into practice, during activity. Being one with whatever we're doing, and he says, another common source of art is just taking a walk. Along with Virginia Sturm, a University of California, San Francisco neuroscientists, I studied the effects of an all walk that was in quotations and all walk. One group of subjects took a weekly walk for eight weeks, the other group did the same, but with some instructions. Tap into your childlike sense of wonder, imagining you're seeing everything for the first time. Take a moment during each walk to notice the vastness of things. When looking at a panoramic view, for example, or at the detail of a flower and go somewhere new, or try to recognize new features of the same old place. All the parties, all the participants reported on their happiness, anxiety and depression and took selfies during their walks. I don't know about the selfies. We found that the all walkers felt more odd with each passing week. We might have thought that their capacity for a would start to decrease. This is known as the law of hedonic adaptation. That certain pleasures or accomplishments a new job, a bigger apartment, start to lose some of their thrill over time. But the more we practice all it seems the richer it gets.