Koans use words and concepts to help free us from words and concepts like, like using like, using a thorn to remove a thorn. Our practice in working on a koan is to question these stories, the story, whatever one that we're working on, day and night, no matter what we're doing in zazen and in ever in our everyday lives, sincere questioning, asking, wondering empties the mind of everything else. We've all experienced this whenever we've had some difficult life problem, some issue at work, a health concern, whether it's our own or a loved one, a financial worry, that's all we can think about. It pushes everything else out of the mind. Koans can act in the same way when we are sincerely questioning them. The job of the student is to understand the koan and to express that understanding with the body, which includes the voice, not to explain it, show it. And in this way, koans wake us up to our true nature, and they help us embody what we've waken up to, which is where it counts. So let's dive into this. Koan, the master, begins you are all mash eaters. That's an insult. That's, that's, that's like a say, someone starting an encouragement, talks, saying, looking around zazen Do you are all posers? Wanna be that would get your attention, wouldn't it? Obaku does the same. It's an expedient, insulting them now this mash that he's talking about, this is the dregs left over in the wine making process. So I want to tell you about how to make wine, rice wine, since we're in China. So to for it to make rice wine. First the rice is soaked, and then it's cooked and cooled, and then something is added to it to make it ferment and start producing alcohol. And in that process of fermentation, it dissolves into a liquid, this rice, and then more liquid is added, and that mixture is aged. And when it's done, the solids are filtered out and what's left the liquid is what we call wine. Mash eaters eat that solid that got filtered out. This. A byproduct probably smells like wine, maybe even tastes like wine, but it isn't wine. It's not the real thing. It's like someone eating you used coffee grounds and calling it coffee or or eating used tea leaves and calling it tea. It's not the real thing.