these monks, these four monks set off to train in, in southern China, where Buddhism was, was popular and strong at that time. But on the journey shoes on, couldn't stop thinking about the question that Jesus had Pope proposed to him, he felt a little guilty. And he kept on dismissing his thoughts about it, but they would the question would have to return are things really separate? Or are they one? What is the split in my mind? What kind of Zen student am I? As he pondered these questions, he began to practice very sincerely, there was a lot going on around him, but he continued to practice in his own way, just as each of us must do, we are always surrounded by many activities, many books, there are always interesting lectures to go to, but fundamentally at bottom, we must find out for ourselves. This was a book was written in pre internet age, and if the always books and lectures at the time this was written, just add in here now that the number of blogs and podcasts we can access the whole whole world of teachings online, endless, endless supply, that they'll only take us just so far. In the end, we have to find out for ourselves. We have to do the work. Then one day, she was on returned to this old farmer who was no longer in his overalls, but instead switch to wearing his robes. This time Jesus asked us on where have you come from? In so many Zen stories, this question is asked, what is the real question being posed? Where have you come from? What was your face before your parents were born? Who are you? Where are you going? Why are you here? What is your aspiration What is your deepest longing as most of us would do shoes and gave a literal answer, I have come from the self. Jizo asked how is the Buddha Dharma in the South? Shoes on told him about all the many discussions and the popularity popularity of Mondo Zen Question and Answer dialogues in the south, the flourishing life there. Jesus was unimpressed Is that so? It doesn't seem as good as what we're doing here. What do you do here she's on acquired, we cut down trees and cultivate the fields. What do we do and as ours and we cut down the forest of our delusions, and cultivate the fields of our true nature, sitting quietly we are cutting off digging, cultivating the Buddha fields. This Buddha Dharma is deeply rooted in our ordinary everyday activities. Lofty discussions missed the mark. In this practice, we engage in our life work completely and fully reaching our essential being and then expressing it wherever we are.