IT is Doing

If you will always attribute to everything you do in life the idea that you are doing it of course you will never quite understand where the Work comes in. By observation one has to come to that point at which one realizes that when one thinks one is doing one is not doing in any way whatsoever but IT is doing, the machine in us is doing, one is doing mechanically what one has always done before.

Here no question of doing in the Work-sense enters. IT is doing. In my case Nicoll is doing; in your case Smith, Robinson, Brown is doing. There was a question: "Well, how can I do in the Work-sense?" The answer is that you cannot do as you are in a Work-sense. "Then, what am I to do?" "Realize that you cannot do. Realize the mechanicalness of your Being."

Maurice Nicoll, “Commentary on One’s Level of Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 3, p. 846)