And of course, it's not the only important thing in our lives, lots of other secondary things that are also quite important. He says, most of our attempts to become better people. Thich Nhat Hanh heir, more moral, slash, productive, slash, organize and so forth. Make this problem worse, because it's basically impossible to pursue any program of personal change without the thought somewhere in the back of your mind that successfully completing the change will catapult you into a new and somehow real or kind of existence. In recent years, for example, there's been an explosion of books on habit change, most of which take a splendidly down to earth approach, focusing on the importance of taking tiny, incremental steps. Yen. Rarely do they rarely. They rarely escape the trap of implying that once a habit has been implemented, it'll become totally automatic, and life suffering, at least in that domain, will have ended for good. Now, in workshops, we warn people that while it's possible to have a deep and meaningful insight that will change your life, it's not going to solve all your problems. Life doesn't stop messing. With you because you've had an insight, because we all fall back on old patterns, saying in Japan somewhere, the Buddha is still working on himself. Not sure if all Buddhists would subscribe to that, but it's certainly true that even Zen Master, I'm talking about a master, Zen master with a deep realization, still needs to work on himself. Roshi was really fond of telling the story of Harada Roshi, who, this is Roshi Kapleau, who would who confided to him that he had always had a problem with anger, explosive anger. Felt that he might have killed someone eventually, if he had not gotten into Zen practice. Well, he worked very hard. He did have an enlightenment experience, and he said it took 10 more years before he felt free of his anger.