It goes on to the next. Next stanza, water dripping and ceaseless Lee will fill the four seas, specks of dust not wiped away, will become the five mountains brings to mind the poem we used to recite little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. says don't think that a little bit a tiny bit of wandering thought is irrelevant. Maybe there is only a tiny bit of wandering thought in this sitting this day this retreat. But the accumulation of these tiny wandering thoughts becomes one gigantic wandering thought a monster. This habit has been formed since time without beginning endlessly, we are judging things in one another, by using our knowledge and our memory of past experiences. And this has been passed down from life to life. Indeed, it is karma itself. We are this habit entangled and constrained within it, it of this we are unaware. When we focus in practice, it becomes quite easy to see the truth of this, we can see the scattered thoughts and how difficult it is to let them go. The endless cycling of our limited and caging ideas and judgments are prejudices. And the clearer we see such things, the better the chance of our success. The more speedily we recognize it when we drift away. The shift can begin. So many of the thoughts that have a charge the feelings of not being adequate. I'm doing it wrong. Although self judgmental thoughts. Those are harder to spot sometimes. We're just scrambling to avoid the pain, wishing for a way out. Don't Don't, don't take what you think so seriously. How many times do the same Bunnell self self critical thoughts run through the head? It's just noise. We see that we can let it go. When we let it go, time and time again over a long time. It doesn't arise as frequently and when it does, we spotted quicker. He says now in the last two days, what have you found to be the most difficult element in practice is that when we are dozing off, or is it when we have wandering thoughts. When sleepiness is the greater problem, it may be due to a lack of energy or to temporary mullahs a cold or a virus. If you're practicing well, and a great sleepiness comes, then sometimes there's nothing that can really help you become very exhausted, then it is important to take a rest. But if you lack energy through laziness, or merely a little drowsy, that if you increase your breathing, take in some fresh air or do some exercises you may energize yourself again. And in fact, while Ming doesn't discuss discuss the problem of falling asleep, perhaps in his day, practitioners never lacked energy. Get a real chance to work with this. In Yassa in late night sitting, we sit outside the regular rounds. How tired are we really? What will happen? A lot of times people are so worried about it becoming too tired, that they do far less than they could. Other people feel so guilt ridden, that they do more Zen maybe than is good for them and they do exhaust themselves. But even if you do that, get a rest and you can come back. Time and Zen is not wasted. So it's a balance that everyone has to work out for themselves. How far do I push myself beyond what's required?