The dicipline of DE (Do Easy)
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DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply
means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage
which is also the quickest and most efficient way as you will find as you
advance in DE. You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving
furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Consider
the weight of objects exactly how much force is needed to get the object
from here to there. Consider its shape and texture and function where
exactly does it belong. Use just the amount of force necessary to get the
object from here to there. Don't fumble jerk grab an object. Drop cool
possessive finger onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest. Guide
a dustpan lightly to the floor as if you were landing a plane. When you
touch an object weigh it with your fingers feel your fingers on the object
the skin blood muscles tendons of your hand and arm. Consider these
extensions of yourself as precision instruments to perform every movement
smoothly and well. Handle objects with consideration and they will show you
all their little tricks. Don't tug or pull at a zipper. Guide the little
metal theeth smoothly along feeling the sinous ripples of cloth and
flexible metal. Replacing the cap on a tube of tooth paste ... (and this
should always be done at once few things are worse than an uncapped tube
maladroitly squeezed twisting up out of the bathroom glass drooling paste
unless it be a tube with the cap barbarously forced on all askew against
the threads). Replacing the cap let the very tips of your fingers protrude
beyond the cap into place. Using your finger tips as a landing gear will
enable you to drop any light object silently and surely into its place.
Remember every object has its place. It you don't find that place and put
that thing there it will jump out at you and trip you or rap you painfully
across the knuckles. It will nudge you and clutch at you and get in your
way. Often such objects belong in the wastebasket but often it's just that
they are out of place. Learn to place an object firmly and quietly in its
place and do not let your fingers move that object as they leave it there.
When you put down a cup separate your fingers cleanly from the cup. Do not
let them catch in the handle and if they do repeat movement until fingers
seperate clean. If you don't catch that nervous finger that won't let go of
that handle you may twitch hot tea across the Duchess. Never let a poorly
executed sequence pass. If you throw a match at a wastebasket and miss get
right up and put that match in the wastebasket. If you have time repeat the
cast that failed. There is always a reason for missing an easy toss. Repeat
toss and you will find it.


William S Burroughs