Shadowing Practice: The Root of Sorrow is Attachment by Anthony De Mello - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let's pick up the thread again.
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Your life is in a mess.
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You don't want to get out of it.
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There was another thing.
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It's in a mess because you've got wrong ideas, not because there's anything wrong with you.
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You're okay.
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I'm okay, you're okay.
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We're all okay.
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We're great.
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There's nothing wrong with us.
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They put wrong ideas into our heads.
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Somebody did.
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We needn't spend too much time trying to catch the culprit.
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But anyway, the fact is you got wrong ideas.
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You know, it's like somebody gives you a stereo set and you get a manual of instructions that comes along with it.
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They gave us the manual of instructions.
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It was all wrong.
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So you're not getting music.
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You're getting scratchy sounds.
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You're getting upset.
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You're getting conflicts.
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You're getting loneliness.
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You're getting emptiness.
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Now, there are many ways of putting the formula.
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I am going to give you the simplest I found.
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I am going to give it to you in the words of old Buddha.
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Why did I choose him?
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Because his is the simplest of all, but you find it everywhere.
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It is the simplest of all, enunciated with limpid clarity.
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You are probably going to disagree with it, but you cannot miss the point.
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Here it is.
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The world is full of sorrow.
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The root of sorrow is attachment.
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The uprooting of sorrow means the uprooting, the dropping of attachments.
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You know there are desires on whose fulfillment my happiness does not depend.
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You got lots of desires on whose fulfillment your happiness does not depend or else you would be climbing walls,
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you would be nervous wrecks.
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All of us have two types of desires.
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We got desires, you know, we desire all kinds of things and gee, we're happy to get them and we don't get them, okay, too bad, we're not unhappy.
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But we've got other desires, good lord, if we don't get that, we're going to be miserable.
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That is what he calls an attachment.
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Where do you think all conflicts come from?
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Attachments.
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Where do you think greed comes from?
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Attachments.
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Where do you think loneliness comes from?
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Attachments.
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Where do you think emptiness comes from?
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You got it, same cause.
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Where do you think fears come from?
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My, how clever you are becoming.
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Attachments, no attachment, no fear, ever thought of that?
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No attachment, no fear.
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We are going to take your life, go right ahead.
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No attachment to life.
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Happy to live, happy to let go.
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You think that's possible?
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You know something?
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People have attained it, so it is possible.
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Want to attain it yourself?
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Attachment.
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Sorry sir, you have AIDS, you only have six months to live.
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Just six months?
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Boy, that's a lot of time to live, that's wonderful.
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Happiness.
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Hey, this guy got no attachment.
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If you were not actively engaged in making yourself miserable, you would be happy.
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We were born happy.
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All life is shot through with happiness.
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Oh, there's pain, of course there's pain.
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Who told you you can't be happy without pain?
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Come and meet a friend of mine who's dying of cancer, and she's happy in pain.
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So, we were born happy.
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We lost it.
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We were born with the gift of life.
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We lost it.
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We got to rediscover it.
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Why did we lose it?
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Because we were working actively.
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They taught us to work actively to make ourselves miserable.
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How did they do that?
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By teaching us to become attached.
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by teaching us to have desires so intense that we would refuse to be happy unless they were fulfilled.
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The tragedy is, my dears,
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the tragedy is that all you need to do is to sit down for two minutes
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and just watch how untrue it is that you would be unhappy without A or B or X or Y or whatever.
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Do you know something?
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You won't sit, because if you sit you might see it.
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You won't sit and look at it.
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I know I wouldn't, I resisted it for years.
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You mean if I don't get Mary Jane or I don't get John, I won't be happy?
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Hey, wait a minute, that's false.
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Before I met him, I was happy.
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And you know something?
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I once fell in love with somebody and then, well, I lost her and I was heartbroken.
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So what happened?
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I'm all right now.
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So she wasn't my happiness after all.
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Remember the time I was, you were a child and you lost something and you thought I'll never be happy without this.
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What happened?
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If we gave it to you today, you wouldn't look at it.
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But why don't we learn?
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Oh, no, no. We got to live in illusions.
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It feels good.
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It gives you a kick, doesn't it?
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It gives me a kick.
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We want kicks.
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We don't want happiness.
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We want thrills.
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And wherever you've got a thrill, you've got an anxiety.
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Because you might lose it.
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Or you may not get it.
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And you've got a depression following.
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You've got a hangover.
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It's so simple as I told you, I could put it down for you in two minutes, whether you will hear it is another question, that depends on your own heart.
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So, here it is, the world is full of sorrow,
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the root of sorrow is attachment desire,
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the uprooting of sorrow is the dropping of attachment.
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How does one drop it?
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One only looks and sees that it is based on a false belief,
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the belief that without this I cannot be happy, that that is false, the moment you see it is false you are free,
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good luck to you, may take you one minute, may take you twenty five years, but the day you see it you are free.
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Does this mean dropping of attachments, does it mean detachment from the material world?
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No, no, one uses the material world, one enjoys the material world,
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but one does not make one's happiness depend on the material world, is that clear enough?
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Like look what I am saying is,
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you really begin to enjoy things when you are unattached, Because attachment brings anxiety.
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If you are anxious, when you are holding on to something, you could hardly enjoy it.
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So what I am offering you is not a withdrawal from enjoyment,
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it's a withdrawal from possessiveness,
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from anxiety, from tension, from depression at loss of something.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “The Root of Sorrow is Attachment by Anthony De Mello”. Las palabras que más se repiten: attachment, desire, happiness, sorrow, depend. Este vídeo tiene 132 frases y 1081 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:42. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 124 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 24 de sus 132 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| attachment sustantivo | /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ | prensión |
| sorrow sustantivo | /ˈsɑɹoʊ/ | pesar, pesadumbre |
| uproot verbo | /ˌʌpˈɹut/ | desraizar, desarraigar |
| miserable adjetivo | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | miserable, mísero |
| emptiness sustantivo | vaciedad | |
| attain verbo | /əˈteɪn/ | alcanzar, conseguir |
| loneliness sustantivo | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | soledad |
| thrill verbo | /θɹɪl/ | emocionar, excitar |
| withdrawal sustantivo | /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/ | retirada |
| unhappy adjetivo | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | infeliz |
| culprit sustantivo | /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/ | culpable, nocente |
| detachment sustantivo | /dɪˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ | desprendimiento, desafijación |
| enunciate verbo | /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/ | enunciar, letrear |
| limpid adjetivo | /ˈlɪmpɪd/ | límpido |
| rediscover verbo | redescubrir |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Why did I choose him?
- Where do you think all conflicts come from?
- Where do you think greed comes from?
- Who told you you can't be happy without pain?
- It gives you a kick, doesn't it?
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 38 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: thrill /θɹɪl/, withdrawal /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/, hangover /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scratchy /ˈskɹæt͡ʃi/, stereo /ˈstɛəɹ.i.oʊ/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, hangover /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/
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 attachment, sorrow, uproot.
¿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.