rather than confronting some unpleasant thought we experience, we try to bury it so we don't have to deal with the issue. Unfortunately, we usually don't succeed, at least not fully. We hide the thought, but the mental energy we use to cover it up sits there and boils the result is that sense of unease that we call agitation or restlessness. There is nothing you can put your finger on, but you don't feel at ease. You can't relax. When this uncomfortable state arises in meditation, just observe it. Don't let it rule you. Don't jump up and. Run off and don't struggle with it and try to make it go away. So there it is again. Don't struggle with it and try to make it go away. Just let it be there and wash it closely. Okay, so this is more of a mindfulness practice that obviously Bonte is talking about here for us. Of course, it's always just just getting back to say that counting of the inhalation and exhalation, just putting your full attention on that, and just let, let it be whatever it is, and it will eventually go away. Then the repressed material will eventually surface, and you'll find out what you have been worrying about, the unpleasant experience that you have been trying to avoid could be almost anything guilt, greed or other problems. It could be low grade pain or subtle sickness or approaching illness. Whatever it is, let it arise and look at it mindfully. If you just sit still and observe your agitation, it will eventually pass. We should say, if you just sit still and return to your practice, it will eventually pass. Sitting through restlessness is a little breakthrough in your meditation career. It will teach you a lot. You will find that agitation is actually rather a superficial mental state. It is inherently ephemeral. It comes in and goes it has no grip on you at all. This can also happen. Agitation can happen quite frequently at the end of a sashing, especially at the end of a set of 70s Sachin, you know, he's just getting kind of all connected to that is frustration, you know, just get kind of in the state of agitated. One thing that happens on day six or seven session can happen is the thoughts just seem to, kind of, it feels like the thoughts are just pouring, pouring in, in and out, you know, and then there's the sense of agitation. We're just kind of freaking out. It's like, what, what have I been doing after all this time? And my mind is like this, but, but really, it's just a sign, it's a sign that you've been doing the work, and your mind is just opening. And the amazing thing about it is, you know you when you apply yourself and not free act freak out, react to this monkey mind, just agitation. Then, just like that, things shift, so long as we maintain the practice. I problem nine, trying too hard. Advanced meditators are generally found to be pretty jovial people. They possess one of the most valuable of all human treasures, a sense of humor. It is not the superficial, witty repartee of the talk show host, it is a real sense of humor. They can last. They can laugh at their own human failures. They can chuckle at personal disasters. So why is that so much of this? I meant to start off by saying so much of these problems that we're bringing out, really, really what, what practice and Saint reveals is you just learn what's in the mind. You see the patterns you it doesn't. It's not overnight, but you really start to introduce to how your mind actually works, what's really going on in there. And you start to notice patterns, mental habits. Oh, there it is again, kind of thing. And by seeing that, by noticing it, then that's when we really start to to, yeah, it's, it's, we really start to know how the mind works. That's, that's the only way I can put it, and we just take it less seriously. We take ourselves less seriously as a result, by just noticing, there it is again. It's one of the things that's so gratifying about being in a Sangha and being having a repentance ceremony, for instance, because then we hear the the other things that our Dharma siblings are struggling with, and they pretty much come down to The same kind of things that we struggle with such a, it's such a, it's such a humbling experience to be in a in a repentance. I mean, it's such a humbling experience to do sacheen, and then to start seeing and looking into the mind and seeing all the crazy, crazy, nutty, delusional things that go on. In the mind.