Here like to just talk a little bit about forgiveness. I think we touched on this in this in the third job but didn't get around to concluding him. Based on on this teaching, I've taken at home and it's pretty clear that we we forgive, to free ourselves to free our own minds. And then not it's not so much for the perpetrator who has his or her own process to go through. Martin Luther King said, forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude. And we can understand why he particularly would say this as a member of an oppressed group, where one would experience multiple micro aggressions in a single day and then major structural issues that are caused by racism as well and the huge effects of those. So to forgive again and again and again. was necessary is necessary to in order to do To stay free to keep the mind free forgiveness forgiveness, of course, is is central teaching of Christianity, Buddhism we talk more about about letting go, which is very closely related. But I'd like to read a little bit from the Gospel according to Jesus. This is a wonderful book by Steven Moulton Mitchell who was, was a Zen student, a translator of many, many different spiritual books, as well as Rainer Maria Rocha and his section common the topic of power of forgiveness, which is, is very insightful. He says, in Jesus's sayings, it may seem as if God's forgiveness is dependent on ours, forgive us our wrongs as we forgive those who have wronged us. That's the route straight from the Lord's Prayer people may notice, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And so she kind of shallow reading of us would think, well, if I forgive others for their offenses, then God will forgive me for mine. And if I don't judge, I won't be judged. so forth. But he says, these ifs have only one side, like a mobius strip. This is, if you take a strip of paper and twist it and join the two ends together, you get an endless surface. So he says these ifs about forgiving others so that God will forgive us have only one side like a mobius strip. Jesus doesn't mean that if you do condemn, God will condemn you. Or if you don't forgive, God won't forgive you. He is pointing to a spiritual fact. When we condemn, we create a world of condemnation for ourselves, and we attacked, attract the condemnation of others. When we cling to an offense, we are clinging to precisely what separates us from our own fulfillment. Letting go means not only releasing the person who has wronged us, but releasing ourselves, a place opens up inside us where that person is always welcome. And where we can always meet her again and again, face to face. I think this also applies applies to forgiving ourselves. Because when we don't forgive ourselves that can be these parts of our own interior that are not welcome excel in a way. He continues in those sayings of Jesus, God is a mirror reflecting back to us our own state of being, we receive exactly what we give. The more open hearted we are, the more we can experience the whole universe is God's grace, or the grace of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. We could say forgiveness is essentially openness of heart. It is an attitude, not an action action, just as Martin Luther King says. And he quotes a bit of the Bible here. Peter once asked him, Jesus, in other words, sir, how often should I forgive my brother if he keeps wronging me up to seven times? And Jesus said to him, no, not just 770 times seven.