One of the things we'll talk about this Monday is one breath tonglen meditation session, which I do a lot, a lot, I started doing this somewhat spontaneously. A number of years ago when I was reading the morning paper, or listening to the news. And just hearing about all these just endless disasters right i mean so much, so much pain. And instead of feeling and I just felt all this contraction and just like I just samsara. And so what I did a little bit like in the spirit of the conditioning that we have around when somebody sneezes right, we've been trained to say, bless you or Gesundheit or something. And so I've been doing this for so long now that whenever I read something that's like oh these you know these 18 people that were killed in this car crash in California, these, these solo illegal immigrants. I feel the contraction and I literally I just do one one breath Tong Lin, just just to connect, because otherwise it's so easy to just go numb, you know, there's so much pain and suffering that it's easy to just flip the page or whatever and so Tomlin is is the really, really powerful practice skipped over I think in appropriately. So what I wanted to talk just a little bit about today, somewhat related is I just finished this program with Bob Thurman on the pure lands which was is always with with Professor Thurman, it was a hoot. He's a great guy. And we're doing a second one, by the way, I'll be advertising that a little bit later at the end of this month we're doing contract, we did sutra Pure Land. This weekend, end of March, we're doing Tantra Pure Land and that's the stuff I think is just so bloody cool. So first weekend was pure land, second weekend is pure mind, and the connection between pure mind and pure land. But, but one of the things that I presented that I think is really, when I think about the Pure Land teachings which by the way largest form of Buddhism in the world, there's over 100 million. Pure Land practitioners, how much do we know about these Pure Land schools they're colossal. And so, the topic of merits is is really big deal in the Puroland tradition, and it's to me it's the highlight. So I wanted to share a couple things around that one. One is this somewhat humbling story. When I finished my between the actually towards the end of my third year my, my three year retreat. Means you remember he was visiting the abbey next door to where we're doing this retreat and he was coming in to do a presentation which is like we get, you know, the retreatants gets so geeked does nobody ever comes in right we're just totally alone torture torturing each other. And so all it means you mha is going to come in and do a presentation was like, Oh, this is awesome and so I can't say what the other retreatants were expecting but I was expecting. Oh, you know, here we are, we're these big highfalutin retreatants he's going to give us some super esoteric inner secret ultra, you know, Quint quintessence of the quintessence teachings right, only for the postdocs for the post PhDs. Now this is my attitude. It's like he's gonna like give us something that no one else is ever going to hear. Right. And so it was perfect because mengirim Jake came in, and for two hours two hours. He talked to us about merit. And the first time he said, we're going to talk about merit my heart just sunk. It was like, Oh, God, you know, I know all about merit. I realized I didn't know anything about merit and his, His teaching really smacked me in a good way. It was exactly what we needed to hear and, and honestly Ever since then, my appreciation for this thing called merit. That we toss around, we meeting in the Buddhist community you know at the end of each session. We do this thing called the dedication or merit, and again, maybe it's just me confessing my ignorance but you know it always used to be, let's just flap our lips get this over with and get on with life, you know, but means you're mpj and then the deep dive into the Puroland teachings because in the Pure Land, I mean, what created sukawati the apparently in the most pure land schools are about is actually merit, it's where this kind of spiritual energy potency actually, you know, somewhat in the spirit if we, if you don't take it too literally of equals mc square right energy and mass are interchangeable. That