3 Practices for Wisdom and Wholeness | Krista Tippett | TED

翻译人员: Maple Dilidili 校对人员: suya f.

Here is one way to begin to talk about what the pandemic,

我们可以用这样一种方式 来讨论疫情大流行，

the post-2020 world, began to set in motion.

给2020年之后的世界， 带来了什么样的变化。

All together, for a time,

总的来说，有那么一段时间，

we felt for the ground beneath our feet.

我们感念我们脚下的土地。

We remembered that the ground beneath our feet is never as solid

我们记得 那脚下的土地

并没有我们所相信的那么坚实。

as we believe it to be.

We remembered that civilization revolves

我们记得

人类文明是围绕着 如此柔软的的生物发展而来的，

around something so tender

as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies.

每一个个体都与其他人 同呼吸共命运。

We softened.

我们变得柔和了。

Chasms became un-unseeable.

意见鸿沟不见了，

Between the ways we've been living and our deepest longings

尤其是在我们秉持的生存方式

和对子孙后代最深切的渴望，

for all of our children

and the highest potentials for human flourishing.

以及人类繁荣的最大潜力之间。

So how to step into what we have been given to see,

那么，我们要如何介入 这个时代所让我们看到的，

how we have been given to learn and to grow.

以及我们该如何从中学习 并由此成长。

I've been looking back across my 20 years of listening to the world

我一直在回顾我20年来 聆听世界的生涯，

and being in a radio and podcast conversation

以及在电台和博客中

with wise and graceful lives.

与聪慧、优秀的人的对话。

And I want to share with you three arts of living

我想和大家分享 在这些对话中不断出现的

that have persistently emerged.

三种生活的艺术。

Callings.

召唤。

Each of them carries practices towards what it might mean

每一条都能亲身实践，

for each of us to participate

意味着我们都能参与其中，

as we move forward in the remaking of this world.

在前行中重构这个世界。

The first is to see the generative story,

第一步是看到可生成的故事，

the generative narrative of our time.

我们这个时代生成的叙事。

We are fluent in and very familiar with

我们精通并非常熟悉

the narrative of catastrophe

对灾难、失控

and dysfunction and disarray.

和混乱的叙述。

And that is real.

那些是真的，

But it's not the whole story of us.

但这并不是我们的全部故事。

There is also an abundant reality

还有另一种饱满丰富的现实是，

of things going right at any given time.

在任意某一时刻， 事情顺风顺水，

Of learning and growth that are happening,

关于正在发生的学习、成长、

of evolution and breakthrough.

进化和突破。

One of the things that happens when I use this phrase,

当我在这样说的时候， 即已生成叙事，

the generative narrative, and people hear it for the first time

而人们第一次听到 这个生成的叙事时，

is sometimes they'll say, "Well, give me an example."

有时候他们会说： “好吧，给我举个例子。”

And I say, "Just look around you."

然后我会说： “请环顾四周。”

Even when we leave this special place

即使我们离开这个特殊的地方，

and go back to all the places we came from,

回到我们来之前的地方，

it is ordinary

很常见的是，

that all kinds of people with all kinds of lives

经历着百般生活的 各种各样的人，

are finding ways to be of service.

都在寻找可以为他人服务的方式。

They are standing before a world in pain.

他们面对的是一个 经历痛苦的世界。

They are working with forms that are broken.

他们正在应对 支离破碎的架构。

They're probably working in institutions that don't quite make sense anymore,

他们可能正在已经 没什么意义的机构工作，

and they're having an edifying effect on the people around them,

他们也在对周围的人 产生启发性的影响，

becoming healers and social creatives

以各种各样的形式

in so many forms.

成为治疗师和社会创造者。

Now we are strange creatures,

现在我们是神奇的生物，

and this is one of our strangest qualities.

这是我们最奇异的特征之一。

We don't know how to tell this generative story of us as vividly.

我们不知道该如何精准生动地 讲述我们这个生成叙事。

We don't know how to take it as seriously as that story of rupture.

我们不知道该如何像对待 破灭的叙事那样认真对待它。

And this has started to make sense

光是看见就已经开始有意义了，

as we are able to peer more intricately inside our brains and bodies.

因为我们能够更细致地 窥视我们的大脑和身体内部。

It turns out that our brains are exquisitely designed to keep us safe

原来我们的大脑是被精心设计 来保护我们的安全

and on the alert for danger.

并保持危险警惕的。

Our brains are riveted by what goes wrong.

我们的大脑被差错 牢牢吸引，

They are looking in every instant for what will go wrong next.

它每时每刻都在寻找 下一个差错在哪里。

And this underlying orientation

这种底层预设

turns up in our most sophisticated places,

往往出现在最复杂的地方，

certainly in the field of journalism, in which I trained.

当然也出现在 我专长的新闻领域。

It turns out that we actually have to more actively,

事实上， 我们必须更加积极、

consciously orient ourselves

有意识地调整我们自己的取向，

if we want to attend to and get riveted by

如果我们想关注 并被善良和救赎的内容

what is good and redemptive.

所吸引的话。

The invitation here is to take in the good.

我邀请大家 去接受美好的事物。

And just naming, calling it out,

而且认识到并说出来，

它就是我们这个时代的

that there is a generative story of our time,

生成叙事。

that you can see it too,

你也可以看得到，

this is a way to begin.

这就是开始的路径。

Take in the good.

接纳美好事物。

Let it start to actively shape the whole picture

让它开始积极地塑造 你正在应对的

of the world you are working with.

整个世界。

And when you do that, you begin to make the generative --

当你这样做时， 你就会开始生成叙事——

this whole landscape of generative people and projects,

这些更新叙事的人和项目 组成整个生态，

more visible and defining to themselves and to this world

对他们自己和这个世界 都更加可见和清晰有力，

which carries so much pain and so much promise.

这个世界已然承受着深重苦难， 亦蕴含着巨大的希望。

My second offering is to live the questions.

我的第二个提议 是去亲身体验问题。

And this one is a gift from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke,

诗人雷纳·玛丽亚·里尔克给我启示 (Rainer Maria Rilke)

who became a friend across time and space to me

她成为我跨越时空的朋友，

in years I spent as a very young journalist

在我还是一名非常年轻的记者，

in divided Cold War Berlin.

在冷战时代被分裂的柏林 度过的时光。

In the early 20th century, Rilke wrote a wonderful series of letters

在20世纪初， 里尔克给一位年轻的诗人

to a young poet

写了一系列精彩的信，

in which he counseled,

他在信中建议道：

"Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart."

“对你心中所有未解决 的事情要有耐心。”

He said, "Try to love the questions themselves

他说：“尽量喜欢这些问题本身，

as though they were locked rooms

就好像它们是上锁的房间

or books written in a very foreign language."

或者是用特定的外语 写成的书一样。”

He said, "Don't try to reach for the answers

他说：“不要试图去寻找

which could not be given to you now

现在无法给出的答案，

because you would not be able to live them."

因为你将无法亲身体验他们。”

The point is to live everything.

关键是要去体验一切。

Live the questions now, then, perhaps someday far in the future,

现在来体验问题， 那么，也许在很远的将来，

you will gradually, without even noticing it,

你将会徐徐领会， 甚至自己都未觉察，

live your way into the answers.

在生活中体会到答案。

Like us, Rilke was a citizen of a young century

像我们一样， 里尔克是一个世纪之初的公民，

with spectacular potentials for creating and destroying.

世纪之初蕴含着令人惊叹 的潜力之于创造与毁灭，

And it's come to seem to me

并且在我看来，

that the great challenges,

这是巨大的挑战，

all of the great challenges before our young century

我们的世纪之初 所面临的所有巨大挑战

on some level are vast, aching open questions.

某种程度上都是巨大的、 棘手且悬而未决的问题。

All of our challenges, ecological, racial, economic,

我们所有的挑战， 生态、种族、经济、

spiritual, political --

精神、政治——

vast, aching, open questions

广泛、棘手、悬而未决的问题，

for which we will not have anything like answers any time soon.

我们不会很快得到答案。

So I find myself returned anew to this wisdom

所以我又重新回到 这样的智慧，

that when we find ourselves in this situation,

即当我们发现自己 处于这种境地时，

we are called to honor and dwell with the questions themselves.

我们被要求尊重 和细细体会这些问题。

Now we live in a culture that is in love with the form of words

现在，我们生活在一种 喜欢文字形式的答案，

that is an answer, an opinion.

和观点的文化之中。

And we are in love with the way with words

而且，我们喜欢摆弄文字，

that is an argument.

那就是争论了。

But a question is a mighty form of words.

然而问题 是一种强大的言语形式。

As an interviewer, I know that questions elicit answers in their likeness.

作为一名采访者，我知道问题会 引导出与之相匹配的答案。

Answers rise or fall to the questions they meet.

答案或高升或低就 来匹配与之相关的问题。

And it is a deep, deep truth in science as in life

在科学和生活中， 都有一个深刻的事实

that at any given moment we are being shaped

即在任何给定时刻，

as much by the questions we're carrying

我们既受到我们 所提出的问题的影响，

as by the answers we have it in us to give.

也受到我们内心深处 所要给出的答案的影响。

Those moments when a new question rises up in us,

那些在我们内心闪现 出一个新问题，

stops us in our tracks,

使我们无法前进的时刻，

those are pivot points.

他们都是转折点。

Those are moments when the possibility of discovery breaks in.

那是发现可能性的时刻。

So the invitation here is to engage the adventure

因此，我邀请大家 带着一种全新的敬意，

of a new reverence for the questions that are alive in you,

如探险一样体验 你内心存在的问题，

the questions that are alive in the world around you.

那些存在于你周围世界中的问题。

That question, which I believe almost every one of us

这个问题，我相信 我们几乎每个人，

standing before our world and its pain and its problems,

面对我们的世界 及其痛苦和问题时，

wondering,

都想知道：

"How can I possibly make a difference?

“我怎么可能有所作为？

How to begin?"

如何开始？”

Spend some time formulating your variation on that question.

请花一些时间来琢磨 有关这个问题的你的方案。

Write it down.

把它写下来。

Commit to having it over your shoulder, in your ear

接下来的几个月 的日常生活中，

as you move through the next few months of your life.

承担责任， 谨记于心。

See what it invites you to see

看看它邀请你去看什么，

and to move towards and to move away from.

向哪里进发，以及远离什么。

I have found that if you are faithful to living a question,

我发现，如果你忠实于 在生活中亲身体验问题，

that question will be faithful back to you.

那么这个问题就会 忠实地向你显现。

And my third offering is about calling and wholeness.

我的第三个提议 是关于召唤和完整性。

The Latin word for “calling,” “vocare,”

“召唤” 在拉丁语 中是 “vocare”

is the root of our word in English, "vocation."

这是我们在英语中 单词 “职业” 的词根。

And in the world in which I was born,

在我出生的世界里，

vocation was very narrowly equated with work and job title.

职业被狭隘地等 同于工作和职称。

But we are not called merely to be professional people.

但是，我们不仅仅 被要求成为专业人士。

We are called to be friends, neighbors,

我们被召唤成为朋友、邻居、

family, citizens.

家人、公民。

Lovers of the world.

爱这个世界的人。

And just as there are callings for a life,

就像有生命的召唤一样，

there are callings for our time.

也有我们时代的召唤。

It has come to seem to me that our generation in time,

在我看来， 我们这一代人，

our generation of our species,

我们人类族群之中的 我们这一代人，

is called to nothing less than wholeness,

被召唤成为完整的人，

that we have it in us to figure out

我们有能力弄清楚

what it would mean to cultivate whole human beings

以完善的体制 培养完整的人

with whole institutions,

在一个完全的社会里 共同生活意味着什么。

living in whole societies.

The invitation here

这里的提议，

is to turn your powerful reality-shifting imagination,

是请大家运用你强大的 改变现实的想象力，

your intelligence, your energy, your will

你的智慧、你的能量、你的意志

towards the possibility of wholeness.

转向实现完整的可能性。

How to live into that.

如何活出这样的生活。

And I want to be very clear

我想说明白，

that becoming whole has nothing to do with aspiring to perfection.

变得完整 与追求完美无关。

It is not about achieving perfection,

这不是要达到完美，

and becoming whole also does not mean

变得完整也不意味着

that we become less strange or wild or complicated.

我们变得不那么奇异、 狂野或复杂。

Becoming whole would mean that we orient together

变得完整 意味着我们共同努力，

away from what is death-dealing

远离死亡的东西，

and towards what is life-giving.

而转向赋予生命的东西。

Every fracture of our world notwithstanding,

尽管我们的世界每一次分裂，

the science of our age is revealing all of life

但我们这个时代的科学 正在揭示所有生命

in its insistence on wholeness,

它所秉持的完整性，

the interplay between our bodies, the natural world,

我们身体的内在 互相作用，自然世界，

the lives we make, the worlds we create.

我们创造的生命， 我们创造的世界。

And every dilemma around our technologies notwithstanding,

尽管我们的技术 存在种种困境，

our technologies have given us,

我们的技术，

for the first time in the history of our species,

在人类物种历史上首次，

the tools to think and act as a species.

为我们提供了作为一个物种 来思考和行动的工具。

Take that in.

想想这些。

It is the calling of callings

这是终极召唤，

to make that more vivid and tangible and real,

要使它变得更加生动、 可见和真实，

each of us starting inside ourselves and with the lives we've been given.

我们每个人都从自己的内心开始， 从我们被赋予的生命开始。

And across my life of conversation,

在我的人生所经历过的对话中，

I have learned that wisdom and wholeness

我了解到，智慧和完整性

emerge in moments precisely like ours,

恰好就出现在 类似我们所处的时刻，

though ours is writ large,

尽管我们的时刻很明显，

where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities

人类必须要以创造性的 张力和互相作用，

in a creative tension and interplay,

维持住许多看似 截然相反的现实

power and frailty,

强力与脆弱，

birth and death,

出生与死亡，

pain and hope,

痛苦与希望，

mystery and conviction,

神秘与信念，

brokenness and beauty,

破碎与美丽，

calm and fierceness,

平静与凶猛，

mine and yours.

我的和你的。

Let's begin.

让我们开始吧。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

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