The Great Things That You Do
Akira the Don, Alan Watts
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Now, you see, if you do that You do at least give yourself a chance And it may be that when you are, in this Way, freed from busy bodies And being out to improve everything That your own nature will begin to Take care of it'self 'Cause you're not getting in the Way of yourself all The time you will begin to find out The great things that you do Are really happenings The great things that you do Are really happenings for example No great genius can explain how he does it The great things that you do Are really happenings Yes, he says "I have learned the techniques to Express myself because I Had something in me that had to come out If I were a musician I had to learn how music is produced If I wanted to describe something I had to learn a language so That others can understand me I need a technique but then, beyond that I'm afraid I can't tell you how It was that I used that Technique to express this mysterious thing I wanted to show you" If we could tell people, if We would have schools, where We would infallibly train musical Geniuses, scientific miracle minds And there would be so many of them We wouldn't know what to do with 'em Geniuses would be a dime a dozen Then we would say, "Well, these people Are, after all, not very ingenious You know?" phDs, how many of them are there? Because what is fascinating, always About genius is The fellow does something we can't understand He surprises The great things that you do Are really happenings The great things that you do Are really happenings for example No great genius can explain how he does it The great things that you do Are really happenings But you see, just in the same way We cannot understand our own brains Neurology knows relatively little About the brain Which is only to say that the brain Is a lot smarter than neurology Yet, there is this which can perform all These extraordinary intellectual or Cultural miracles We don't know how we do, but we did We didn't have some campaign to have An improved brain over the monkeys Or whatever may be our ancestors it happened And all growth, you see Is fundamentally something that happens But for it to happen Two things are important The first is, as I said You must have the technical ability To express what happens Second then, you must get out of your own way The great things that you do Are really happenings The great things that you do Are really happenings for example No great genius can explain how he does it The great things that you do Are really happenings How am I to get out of my own way? And if I showed you a system Let's all practice getting out of our own way It would turn into another Form of self-improvement See, here's the dynamics of this We find this problem, you see Repeatedly throughout the entire history Of human spirituality In the phraseology of zen Buddhism You cannot get this by thinking You cannot attain to it by not thinking As getting out of your own way ceases To be a matter of choice When you see that there's nothing Else for you to do When you see, in other words That doing something about your situation is Not going to help you When you see equally that trying Not to do anything About it is not going to help you Where are you? Where do you stand? You're nonplussed And you are simply reduced to watching
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