to hold what is difficult to hold the challenges, then we are making the path to freedom in the sense that challenges are no longer obstacles. They're just difficult and uncomfortable and somehow challenges But we find our freedom we offer our freedom, a way of being free and not reactive to whatever's going on that path with freedom. And then, and as we go along, we start getting a strike, sooner or later, we get a sense of what this path of freedom is, we get a sense of the ease, the sense of being uninhibited that the sense of being unconstrained that, that there is freedom, now I can breathe easily. Now there's a breath of fresh air. Now there's an openness here. But the way they're, as I've said, you know, so often understanding the obstacles, and I want to set it and use this to make another point about obstacles. If you have free rein, to act on every impulse you have, say that mostly what you want is to acquire things to more things you can have more shopping you can do, the happier you will be and used. And then you can, someone gives you a credit card with unlimited funds in it. And you can't believe you're good luck. And you can just spend every waking hour just on the web shopping, just clicking away, clicking away, just getting more and more stuff. And, and you don't have to worry about it filling your house too much. Because this credit card allows us to buy a bigger house and just more space to have more stuff and more stuff. And, and, and you tell your friends, I have so much freedom, I can buy whatever I want. This is not freedom in Buddhism. In fact, in Buddhist understanding, it's bondage. Because then, if it's compulsively just buying and buying and buying, then the compulsion is a form of bondage, where we're not really free. And we discovered that we're not free. If the credit card is taken away, and the habit, the impulse, and the compulsion to shop is now reaches a dead end, like, Oh, I, I click, I click, click, you know, bye, bye, bye and nothing works. And then so frustrating, and we try harder, and we click the cart or what's wrong here, I'm with more. And it's by not getting what we want. That that compulsion to buy is seen. When we sit and meditate on retreat, or any meditation, or doing walking, meditation was a constant walking back and forth. The constancy of sitting still, the constancy of walking back and forth, is meant to partly to be not just a way of becoming calm, or concentrated, or mindful. It's also a kind of a reference point to discover where we are not free. And as far as someone new to meditation, who's never, you know, someone who lived a very busy agitated life, and they sit down to meditate. And there are people who sit down and told to sit down and not move and just be with their breathing. And it's impossible for them not to move. They're so jittery, so active, so moving, every impulse to move they feel compelled to act on. And maybe part of the reason there's so much agitation is that there's all these unresolved emotions that they're constantly trying to get away from. And so there's no real freedom. Or say that you sit and meditate. And, and the next thing you know, you're meditating just fine. And the next thing you know, you're busy cleaning the refrigerator. To act compulsively. impulse impulsively, is not where freedom is found. But if the commitment to sit still in meditation is strong, then the impulse to move the impulse to clean the refrigerator will arise. But we get to see it with great clarity.