fierce language, and that I've come to believe that there are people who hear his teachings and are left feeling limp by comparison. Also, when you when we've read several consecutive days from directly from ha koans teachings, frankly, get a little bit worn down. by it. He's, he's, he's given to exaggeration, and the strongest, most wild kinds of language. And so I've kind of backed off in recent years, I think the last time I read Hakuin was two years ago. But, you know, I realized yesterday that two, four, there are people, some of you have never heard the teachings of Hakuin, who is arguably one of the two, greatest of the Japanese and masters Dogan being the other. And I thought it's time. And let's sort of throw caution to the winds as Hakuin himself would, and just hope that people will feel inspired by this about what what they can accomplish, what anyone can realize through this, and not make the fatal mistake of just seeing him as just some other creature that is beyond ordinary human beings. It's, it's quite a task, trying to choose from all the writings on the books about Hakuin i, i yesterday, and today, I was leafing through five books of his writings. One of them is the whole book is just his autobiography. So this, you'll have to be patient with me if I put down one text and go to another and then another. But I'm going to try to Oh, let me just say this. I'm gonna start off with the a short a middle length autobiography, or excuse me, no. A, A Biography, not how koans own words, but a biography of Hakuin. there's a there's a much shorter one in one of the books. And there are longer ones, but I thought I would go with Oh, well. The middle way, and read from a book called Wild IV, the spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master hacohen. But before the the bulk of the book, the autobiography, the translator gives us a biography of Hakuin. And the translator is Norman Waddell, who has written at least three or four books of how koans translated at least three or four books of how koans writing. So without further ado, here we go with wild IV, the spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master hacohen. As always, I'll be hopping around skipping paragraphs and a whole series of pages has, I think, might be useful for the listener. Okay, his dates are 1686 to 1768. So he died just before the long before the American Revolution. The in the translators introduction, he, he begins by noting that Hakuin was was famous as a writer, and a pager, and a calligrapher. But above all, as a Zen master, who all but single mindedly reformed the rinzai School of Zen.