3 Practices for Wisdom and Wholeness | Krista Tippett | TED

譯者: Oliver Chang 審譯者: Shelley Tsang 曾雯海

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

我們可以用這樣一種方式 來討論疫情大流行，

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

給2020年後的世界， 帶來了什麼樣的改變。

All together, for a time,

we felt for the ground beneath our feet.

總的來說，有那麼一段時間，

我們感念腳下的土地。

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

我們記得 那腳下的土地

as we believe it to be.

並沒有我們所相信的那麼堅實。

We remembered that civilization revolves

我們記得

around something so tender

人類文明是圍繞著 如此柔軟的的生物發展而來的，

as bodies breathing in proximity to other bodies.

每一個個體都與其他人 同呼吸共命運。

We softened.

Chasms became un-unseeable.

我們變得柔和了。

意見鴻溝不見了，

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

尤其是在我們秉持的生存方式

for all of our children

和對子孫後代最深切的渴望，

and the highest potentials for human flourishing.

以及人類繁榮的最大潛力之間。

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

那麼，我們要如何介入 這個時代所讓我們看到的，

how we have been given to learn and to grow.

以及我們該如何從中學習 並由此成長。

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

我一直在回顧我20年來 聆聽世界的生涯，

and being in a radio and podcast conversation

with wise and graceful lives.

以及在電台和部落格中

And I want to share with you three arts of living

與聰慧、優秀的人的對話。

that have persistently emerged.

我想和大家分享 在這些對話中不斷出現的

Callings.

Each of them carries practices towards what it might mean

三種生活的藝術。

召喚。

for each of us to participate

每一條都能親身實踐，

as we move forward in the remaking of this world.

意味著我們都能參與其中，

在前行中重構這個世界。

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.

我們這個時代生成的敘事。

We are fluent in and very familiar with

我們精通並非常熟悉

the narrative of catastrophe

and dysfunction and disarray.

對災難、失控

And that is real.

和混亂的敘述。

But it's not the whole story of us.

那些是真的，

但這並不是我們全部的故事。

There is also an abundant reality

of things going right at any given time.

還有另一種飽滿豐富的現實是，

在任某一時刻， 事情順風順水，

Of learning and growth that are happening,

of evolution and breakthrough.

關於正在發生的學習、成長、

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

進化和突破。

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

當我在這樣說的時候， 即已生成敘事，

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

而人們第一次聽到 這個生成的敘事時，

有時候他們會說： “好吧，給我舉個例子。”

And I say, "Just look around you."

然後我會說： “請環顧四周。”

Even when we leave this special place

and go back to all the places we came from,

即使我們離開這個特別的地方，

it is ordinary

回到我們來之前的地方，

that all kinds of people with all kinds of lives

很常見的是，

經歷著百般生活的 各種各樣的人，

are finding ways to be of service.

They are standing before a world in pain.

都在尋找可以為他人服務的方式。

他們面對的是一個 經歷痛苦的世界。

They are working with forms that are broken.

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

他們正在應對 支離破碎的架構。

他們可能正在已經 沒什麼意義的機構工作，

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

他們也在對周圍的人 產生啟發性的影響，

becoming healers and social creatives

in so many forms.

以各種各樣的形式

Now we are strange creatures,

成為治療師和社會創造者。

and this is one of our strangest qualities.

現在我們是神奇的生物，

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

這是我們最奇怪的特徵之一。

我們不知道該如何精準生動地 講述我們這個生成敘事。

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

我們不知道該如何像對待 破滅的敘事那樣認真對待它。

And this has started to make sense

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

光是看見就已經開始有意義了，

因為我們能夠更細緻地 窺視我們的大腦和身體內部。

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

原來我們的大腦是被精心設計 來保護我們的安全

and on the alert for danger.

Our brains are riveted by what goes wrong.

並保持危險警戒的。

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

我們的大腦被差錯 牢牢吸引，

它每時每刻都在尋找 下一個差錯在哪裡。

And this underlying orientation

turns up in our most sophisticated places,

這種底層預設

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

往往出現在最複雜的地方，

當然也出現在 我專長的新聞領域。

It turns out that we actually have to more actively,

事實上， 我們必須更加積極、

consciously orient ourselves

if we want to attend to and get riveted by

有意識地調整我們自己的取向，

如果我們想關注 並被善良和救贖的內容

what is good and redemptive.

The invitation here is to take in the good.

所吸引的話。

我邀請大家 去接受美好的事物。

And just naming, calling it out,

that there is a generative story of our time,

而且認識並說出來，

that you can see it too,

它就是我們這個時代的

生成敘事。

this is a way to begin.

你也可以看得到，

Take in the good.

這就是開始的路徑。

Let it start to actively shape the whole picture

接納美好事物。

讓它開始積極地塑造 你正在處理的

of the world you are working with.

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

整個世界。

當你這樣做時， 你就會開始生成敘事——

this whole landscape of generative people and projects,

這些更新敘事的人和項目 組成整個生態，

more visible and defining to themselves and to this world

對他們自己和這個世界 都更加可見和清晰有力，

which carries so much pain and so much promise.

這個世界已然承受著深重苦難， 亦蘊含著巨大的希望。

My second offering is to live the questions.

我的第二個提議 是去親身體驗問題。

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

詩人雷納·瑪麗亞·裡爾克給我啟示 (Rainer Maria Rilke)

who became a friend across time and space to me

她成為我跨越時空的朋友，

in years I spent as a very young journalist

in divided Cold War Berlin.

在我還是個非常年輕的記者，

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

在冷戰時代被分裂的柏林 度過的時光。

在20世紀初， 裡爾克給一位年輕的詩人

to a young poet

in which he counseled,

寫了一系列精彩的信，

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

他在信中建議：

He said, "Try to love the questions themselves

「對你心中所有未解決 的事情要有耐心。 」

他說：「盡量喜歡這些問題本身，

as though they were locked rooms

or books written in a very foreign language."

就好像它們是上鎖的房間

或是用特定的外語 寫成的書一樣。 」

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

which could not be given to you now

他說：「不要試圖去尋找

because you would not be able to live them."

現在無法給出的答案，

The point is to live everything.

因為你將無法親身體驗他們。 」

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

關鍵是要去體驗一切。

現在來體驗問題， 那麼，也許在很遠的將來，

you will gradually, without even noticing it,

live your way into the answers.

你將會徐徐領會， 甚至自己都未覺察，

在生活中體會到答案。

Like us, Rilke was a citizen of a young century

像我們一樣， 裡爾克是個世紀之初的公民，

with spectacular potentials for creating and destroying.

世紀之初蘊含著令人驚嘆 的潛力之於創造與毀滅，

And it's come to seem to me

that the great challenges,

並且在我看來，

all of the great challenges before our young century

這是一個巨大的挑戰，

我們的世紀之初 所面臨的所有巨大挑戰

on some level are vast, aching open questions.

某種程度上都是巨大的、 棘手且懸而未決的問題。

All of our challenges, ecological, racial, economic,

我們所有的挑戰， 生態、種族、經濟、

spiritual, political --

vast, aching, open questions

精神、政治——

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

廣泛、棘手、懸而未決的問題，

我們不會很快得到答案。

So I find myself returned anew to this wisdom

所以我又重新回到 這樣的智慧，

that when we find ourselves in this situation,

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

即當我們發現自己 處於這種境地時，

我們被要求尊重 和細細體會這些問題。

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

現在，我們生活在一種 喜歡文字形式的答案，

that is an answer, an opinion.

And we are in love with the way with words

和觀點的文化之中。

that is an argument.

而且，我們喜歡擺弄文字，

But a question is a mighty form of words.

那就是爭論了。

然而問題 是一種強大的言語形式。

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

作為一名採訪者，我知道問題會 引導出與之相符的答案。

Answers rise or fall to the questions they meet.

答案或高升或低就 來配對與之相關的問題。

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

在科學和生活中， 都有一個深刻的事實

that at any given moment we are being shaped

as much by the questions we're carrying

即在任何給定時刻，

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

我們既受到我們 所提出的問題的影響，

Those moments when a new question rises up in us,

也受到我們內心深處 所要給出的答案的影響。

stops us in our tracks,

那些在我們內心閃現 出一個新問題，

those are pivot points.

使我們無法前進的時刻，

Those are moments when the possibility of discovery breaks in.

他們都是轉捩點。

那是發現可能性的時刻。

So the invitation here is to engage the adventure

因此，我邀請大家 帶著一種全新的敬意，

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

如探險一樣體驗 你內心存在的問題，

the questions that are alive in the world around you.

那些存在於你周圍世界的問題。

That question, which I believe almost every one of us

這個問題，我相信 我們幾乎每個人，

standing before our world and its pain and its problems,

面對我們的世界 及其痛苦和問題時，

wondering,

"How can I possibly make a difference?

都想知道：

How to begin?"

“我怎麼可能有所作為？

Spend some time formulating your variation on that question.

如何開始？ 」

請花一些時間琢磨 有關這個問題的你的方案。

Write it down.

Commit to having it over your shoulder, in your ear

把它寫下來。

接下來的幾個月 的日常生活中，

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

承擔責任， 謹記於心。

See what it invites you to see

and to move towards and to move away from.

看看它邀請你去看什麼，

向哪裡進發，以及遠離什麼。

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

我發現，如果你忠於 在生活中親身體驗問題，

that question will be faithful back to you.

那麼這個問題就會 忠實地向你顯現。

And my third offering is about calling and wholeness.

我的第三個提議 是關於召喚和完整性。

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

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

“召喚” 在拉丁語 中是 “vocare”

這是我們在英語中 單字 “職業” 的字根。

And in the world in which I was born,

vocation was very narrowly equated with work and job title.

在我出生的世界裡，

職業被狹隘地等 同於工作和職稱。

But we are not called merely to be professional people.

但是，我們不僅僅 被要求成為專業人士。

We are called to be friends, neighbors,

family, citizens.

我們被召喚成為朋友、鄰居、

Lovers of the world.

家人、公民。

And just as there are callings for a life,

愛這個世界的人。

there are callings for our time.

就像有生命的召喚一樣，

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

也有我們時代的召喚。

在我看來， 我們這一代，

our generation of our species,

is called to nothing less than wholeness,

我們人類族群之中的 我們這一代，

被召喚成為完整的人，

that we have it in us to figure out

what it would mean to cultivate whole human beings

我們有能力弄清楚

以完善的體制 培養完整的人

with whole institutions,

living in whole societies.

在一個完全的社會裡 共同生活意味著什麼。

The invitation here

is to turn your powerful reality-shifting imagination,

這裡的提議，

是請大家運用你強大的 改變現實的想像力，

your intelligence, your energy, your will

towards the possibility of wholeness.

你的智慧、你的能量、你的意志

轉向實現完整的可能性。

How to live into that.

如何活出這樣的生活。

And I want to be very clear

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

我想說明白，

變得完整 與追求完美無關。

It is not about achieving perfection,

and becoming whole also does not mean

這不是要達到完美，

that we become less strange or wild or complicated.

變得完整也不代表

我們變得不那麼奇異、 狂野或複雜。

Becoming whole would mean that we orient together

變得完整 意味著我們共同努力，

away from what is death-dealing

遠離死亡的東西，

and towards what is life-giving.

而轉向賦予生命的東西。

Every fracture of our world notwithstanding,

儘管我們的世界每一次分裂，

the science of our age is revealing all of life

但我們這個時代的科學 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,

我們身體的內在 互相作用，自然世界，

the lives we make, the worlds we create.

我們創造的生命， 我們創造的世界。

And every dilemma around our technologies notwithstanding,

儘管我們的技術 存在種種困境，

our technologies have given us,

for the first time in the history of our species,

我們的技術，

the tools to think and act as a species.

在人類物種歷史上首次，

為我們提供了作為一個物種 來思考和行動的工具。

Take that in.

It is the calling of callings

想想這些。

to make that more vivid and tangible and real,

這是終極召喚，

要使它變得更生動、 可見與真實，

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

我們每個人都從自己的內心開始， 從我們被賦予的生命開始。

And across my life of conversation,

I have learned that wisdom and wholeness

在我的人生所經歷過的對話中，

我了解到，智慧和完整性

emerge in moments precisely like ours,

恰好就出現在 類似我們所處的時刻，

though ours is writ large,

where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities

儘管我們的時刻很明顯，

人類必須以創造性的 張力和互相作用，

in a creative tension and interplay,

維持住許多看似 截然相反的現實

power and frailty,

birth and death,

強力與脆弱，

pain and hope,

出生與死亡，

mystery and conviction,

痛苦與希望，

brokenness and beauty,

神秘與信念，

calm and fierceness,

破碎與美麗，

平靜與兇猛，

mine and yours.

我的和你的。

Let's begin.

Thank you.

(Applause)

讓我們開始吧。

謝謝。

（掌聲）