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冥想课程

Meditation Course

日期:1979-05-09地点:OH, USA

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... Can you just make it nearer?

……你能不能把它挪近一点?

For a long time in the past fifty years the word meditation is very prominent in certain sections of North America. Before that there was a very strong group theosophical society which brought certain eastern philosophy to the western world. Western world is basically very, very young, two hundred years of a nation is equal to two days of man's life.

在过去五十年里,冥想这个词在北美某些圈子里非常显眼。在那之前,有一个非常强大的团体——神智学会,它把某些东方哲学带到了西方世界。西方世界基本上非常非常年轻,一个民族两百年,等于人生命的两天。

I have never seen, as a good student of human history, that in two hundred years a mightiest people like Americans can commit blunders for which there is no answer. I have never seen I am back here in ten years, in ten years the rate of suicide, rate of divorce and rate of family split, rate of moral values have gone so much deep down the hill in my presence that I can't even understand.

作为一个研究人类历史的好学生,我从未见过像美国人这样强大的民族,能在两百年里犯下无法回答的错误。我从未见过——我回到这里十年,十年里自杀率、离婚率、家庭破裂率、道德价值的下滑速度,在我眼前跌得那么深,我甚至无法理解。

There are three things which are valuable in a human life-commitment, character, and moral. Commitment is now, character which carries you through the time and space and moral is what ultimately you achieve.

人的一生中有三样东西是宝贵的——承诺、品格和道德。承诺是当下,品格带你穿越时间和空间,道德是你最终所成就的。

character, and moral. Commitment is now, character which carries you through the time and space and moral is what ultimately you achieve.

品格和道德。承诺是当下,品格带你穿越时间和空间,道德是你最终所成就的。

Let us take a broader view. We have inflation, we all know we have inflation and for inflation there is a simple answer, that everybody tie down the belt, but when they found the inflation everybody loosened the belt. Now what a Jimmy Carter and anybody else can do, nothing. Gas price will go up, gas availability will not be there, people will feel scared, people will feel scared things will go up, if things will go scarce, there will be chaos. It has happened many times in many countries, mightiest countries.

让我们看得更广一些。我们有通货膨胀,我们都知道有通货膨胀,而通货膨胀有一个简单的答案,就是每个人都勒紧裤腰带,但当他们发现通货膨胀时,每个人都松开了裤腰带。现在吉米·卡特或任何其他人能做什么,什么也做不了。油价会涨,汽油会供应不上,人们会感到害怕,人们会感到害怕,东西会涨价,如果东西变得稀缺,就会混乱。这在许多国家、最强大的国家都发生过很多次。

Iran had forty billion dollar worth of an army, it evaporated in five days because the moral fiber freaked out. When I came in America I had a hope, I thought Americans have beautiful bodies and beautiful soul, only they have a missing mind.

伊朗有值四百亿美元的军队,五天之内就蒸发了,因为道德纤维崩溃了。我刚到美国时抱着一个希望,我以为美国人有美丽的身体和美丽的灵魂,只是他们缺了心智。

(Students' laughter...)

(学生们笑了……)