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This morning in the meditation, I was reminded of this passage in Moby Dick.

And of course Moby Dick is a great, I think of it as a great poem of consideration of God.

I mean, that's really central to Moby Dick.

And in it, there's a moment in which the cabin boy is thrown off the boat and he's floating in the sea.

And he says, the sea kept him awake,

I mean afloat, but drowned his soul and he looked and saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom,

which is a beautiful image, God's foot upon the treadle of the loom.

But he came back and he was insane.

And says sort of, God's truth is man's insanity.

And my question is, ultimate reality, it's sort of the, what we call a true nature.

How do we know is not like some

Buddhist ideas I think is a void.

How do we know it is fundamentally good?

I mean, I know good is a very insufficient descriptor, but how do we know is not what happened to Pip?

Well, the way we know that the ultimate reality is not a void is by going to our own experience.

I mean, whatever the ultimate nature of reality is, must also be the ultimate nature of ourself.

and we are not able to investigate the ultimate nature of the reality by exploring the world

because we only know the world through our sense perception.

So our only chance of knowing the ultimate reality is to explore our experience of ourself.

And if we go to our experience of ourself, our ultimate experience of ourself, our essential self, which is what we've been doing this week,

and you remove everything from yourself that is not essential, you do initially come to a void,

the passing away of existence, the absence of experience.

And if you stop there, then you say reality is a void.

But that void is the absence of experience.

If you go one step deeper,

And that absence can only remain with reference to the memory of existence.

If that memory disappears, what previously appeared as a void is now revealed as the presence of awareness.

So it's not enough for existence to pass away.

That passing away has to pass away.

So if we think that previously we thought reality was something, then we think, okay, now reality is nothing, it's a void.

But nothing is only something in relation to something.

You have to go one step further.

So, and if we do that in ourself, and that's what we did for instance,

with this going in the floating tank, removing everything.

And at the beginning of the week, if I had asked you, when you've removed your perceptions and sensations and thoughts and images,

what do you experience?

I think that almost all, if not all of you, at the beginning of the week would have said nothing.

But I ask you now, what do you experience when none of you would say nothing?

You'd all say the presence of being.

So that's the first comment.

How do we know that it is...

How do we know that it is good?

Because if we go to that placeless place in ourself, it is a presence, a field, if we can call it,

of pure unity, there's no distinction.

That's what love is, it's the absolute absence of otherness or separation,

and therefore no evil can come from it.

It's pure love, it's pure...

Unity, pure absence of separation, so nothing bad or evil.

It's pure goodness, not good as the opposite of bad.

There's no enmity, there's no hatred, there's no sorrow, there's no separation, there's no evil.

And that's conceptualized, we conceptualize that by saying it's pure goodness, pure peace.

strictly speaking it's even prior to we shouldn't even call it peaceful or good but

we only do so with reference to their opposites evil hatred and so on

I'm sure there's a line in Milton's Paradise Lost, George, which you may well know.

These are thy glorious works, parent of good, almighty, thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair, thyself how wondrous then, unspeakable, who sittest above these heavens to us invisible,

or dimly seen in these thy lowest works.

Yet these declare thy goodness beyond doubt and power divine.

Thank you.

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Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Is Ultimate Reality Fundamentally Good?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: reality, experience, void, ultimate, pure. Este vídeo tiene 60 frases y 733 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:39. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 110 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
void adjetivo	/vɔɪd/	huero
conceptualize verbo		conceptualizar
loom sustantivo	/lum/	utensilio, herramienta
treadle sustantivo	/ˈtɹɛdl̩/	pedal
wondrous adjetivo	/ˈwʌndɹəs/	maravilloso
float verbo	/fləʊt/	flotar
hatred sustantivo	/ˈheɪtɹɪd/	odio
afloat adjetivo	/əˈfloʊt/	a flote
descriptor sustantivo	/dɪˈskɹɪp.tə/	descriptor
enmity sustantivo	/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/	enemistad, inimicicia
otherness sustantivo		otredad
unspeakable adjetivo		indecible
drown verbo	/dɹaʊn/	ahogarse, afogarse
insanity sustantivo	/ɪnˈsænɪti/	locura, insania
almighty adjetivo	/ɔːlˈmaɪti/	omnipotente, todopoderoso

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
pass away verbo	fallecer, dejarnos
throw off verbo	librarse de, deshacerse de

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

How do we know it is fundamentally good?
You'd all say the presence of being.
How do we know that it is good?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, shouldn't, we've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: insufficient /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənt/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/, insufficient /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənt/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: void /vɔɪd/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como void, conceptualize, loom.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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