let me read something that was written by a guy named William Hutchinson Murray. I think back in the 1800s says until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans. That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves to all sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, and meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I've learned a deep respect for one of greatest couplets. Whatever you can do, or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Think of when Roshi Kapleau went to Japan, someone told them bodhisattva as will spring up to help you. And they did. Now we're here in the sendo. Quote from Shantideva, Indian Buddhist. Before Zen even existed, he said all the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. To drop the small self brings joy as much as we can do it. The ninth precept our resolve not to indulge in anger, but to practice forbearance. Thing about anger is we just get swept up. It's an emotion that moves us lose ourselves in our anger. The word forbearance is better than suppression. Sometimes we do have to hold back. But I suppose suppression is better than just blasting everybody in sight. But we need to know that we're angry. Sometimes that suppression means we don't really look at it. We need to listen to the body. If you're anger, if you're angry, there is something going on physically. Something you can tune into, that will actually guide you. You have a little distance. The great damage from anger comes with people just completely go into a blind state blind anger the more we're able to catch ourselves to know that we're angry. The more we grow, the more we find some freedom. It takes a while. I've recounted before the time that I was in the middle of a fight with my wife and realized oh, I'm angry and thought about you know, admitting my side of things, my faults as well. And just said no, not gonna do that. I wanted to win that argument. Can't remember whether I did. But it was a start. You know, it was like, I look back on that. And I think I was waking up. Didn't really cover myself with glory that day. But that's the beginning just to know. We need to trust the process. Trust the fact that seeing what's going on is going to change things. Or anger evaporates if we don't feed it. And you see that in people They've been working on themselves. Their anger may come up suddenly, but it doesn't linger. A moment later, it's gone.