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