Akira The Don, Alan Watts - The Great Things That You Do lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - The Great Things That You Do lyrics]
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
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