Akira The Don, Alan Watts - You Chose It lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - You Chose It lyrics]
Now, you may say
"I need some help in this process
And therefore
I am going to find someone else to help me"
It may be a therapist, it may be a clergyman
It may be a guru
It may be any kind of person
Who teaches a technique of self-improvement
Now, how will you know whether this
Person is able to teach you?
How can you judge, for example
Whether a psychotherapist is effective
Or just a charlatan? How can you judge
Whethеr a guru is himself spiritually wise
Or merеly a good chatterbox?
Well, of course, you ask your friends
You ask his other students, or patients
And they're all, of course, enthusiastic
You have to be enthusiastic when
You bought something expensive
If you bought an automobile
Which turned out to be a lemon
It's very difficult to admit that
It was a lemon, and that you were fooled
And it's the same when you buy
A religion or an expensive operation
But what people do not sufficiently
Realize is that when
You pick an authority, whether
It's a psychotherapeutic one
Or a religious one
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
In other words
That this fellow, or this book
Or this system is the right
One is your opinion
And how are you competent to judge?
After all, if you're saying to this other
Person or other source
"I think you are the authority, "
That's your opinion
So you cannot really judge whether
An authority is a
Sound authority unless you yourself
Are a sound authority
Otherwise, you may just be being fooled
You may say, for example
I believe that the Bible is the word of God
All right, that's your opinion
I know the Bible says it's the word of God
But it's your opinion that the
Bible is not lying
The Church says the Bible is the word of God
But it's your opinion that
The church is right
You cannot escape from that situation
It's your opinion
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
"I need some help in this process
And therefore
I am going to find someone else to help me"
It may be a therapist, it may be a clergyman
It may be a guru
It may be any kind of person
Who teaches a technique of self-improvement
Now, how will you know whether this
Person is able to teach you?
How can you judge, for example
Whether a psychotherapist is effective
Or just a charlatan? How can you judge
Whethеr a guru is himself spiritually wise
Or merеly a good chatterbox?
Well, of course, you ask your friends
You ask his other students, or patients
And they're all, of course, enthusiastic
You have to be enthusiastic when
You bought something expensive
If you bought an automobile
Which turned out to be a lemon
It's very difficult to admit that
It was a lemon, and that you were fooled
And it's the same when you buy
A religion or an expensive operation
But what people do not sufficiently
Realize is that when
You pick an authority, whether
It's a psychotherapeutic one
Or a religious one
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
In other words
That this fellow, or this book
Or this system is the right
One is your opinion
And how are you competent to judge?
After all, if you're saying to this other
Person or other source
"I think you are the authority, "
That's your opinion
So you cannot really judge whether
An authority is a
Sound authority unless you yourself
Are a sound authority
Otherwise, you may just be being fooled
You may say, for example
I believe that the Bible is the word of God
All right, that's your opinion
I know the Bible says it's the word of God
But it's your opinion that the
Bible is not lying
The Church says the Bible is the word of God
But it's your opinion that
The church is right
You cannot escape from that situation
It's your opinion
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it
You chose it you chose it