have somewhere to sleep, we get fed. We're always complaining. Worrying. There is like Heidegger said there's that anxiety quivering in the soul of man. And the cause of that is our grasping and are pushing away. In the Tibetan tradition, there is an instruction that was given by the Indian master Tai Lopa to his disciple Naropa. And Ty Lopez said, the mind is not bound by appearances. The mind is bound by grasping, own Eropa cut through grasping. Everybody gets the instruction to stay here stay in the moment. But what is it that carries us out of the moment, it's always that we're grasping at something and that something is going to have to come in the future because it's not here now. We're always a step ahead of ourselves, tripping over our own feet. Basically, we refuse to be happy, unless conditions change to suit us. When you when you come into practice, and you begin to look at this, the best thing you can do is to notice I remember way before I started practicing Zan, I used to occasionally find myself in a really rotten frame of mind, usually anxiety. And I just wondered, how did I get here? You know, where did where did this come from? And if I traced back my thoughts, I would find something that had come into the mind, which I didn't like, and I pushed it aside, and then it was just sort of bubbling in the background. And that's what life is like, for most of us. Got dissatisfaction bubbling in the background. So the first thing we need to do is to notice to see it when it arises. There's a there's a certain teacher who says when you have that bad feeling that's a compassionate alarm clock telling you you're lost in the dream. Dream of what should be going to read a little section from Joko Beck Most people are familiar with her if you've heard teisho Is that I've given because I've dipped into her teaching quite a bit. This is a little selection from the book, everyday Zen first her first book, which is really just a compilation of talks that she gave. She was a Zen teacher in San Diego, sanctioned to teach by maezumi Roshi of Los Angeles. And she went her own way, really an unusual teacher, but very well respected and for good reason. So JOCO says this, talking about attention, just awareness, knowing what's going on in the mind. She says, attention is the cutting burning sword. And our practice is to use that sword as much as we can see, none of us is very willing to use it. But when we do, even for a few minutes, some cutting and burning takes place. All practice aims to increase our ability to be attentive, not just Zen, but in every moment of our life. And that's a really good point, which is, Zen is not just about sitting on a mat. For some people, it's a big step to get beyond sitting on a mat here in the Zendo, and to establish a practice at home, but even that, you're not there yet what we're what everybody needs to do. What we all want to do, is to bring our mind of awareness to our whole life. That's how our life can change.