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- Enlightenment is often held out as a thing that we can get.
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Sometimes people feel like, well, if I just have those experiences, then I'm enlightened.
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But nobody lives in a kind of unusual, altered state all the time.
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That, in fact, we move in and out of states of being more awakened or less awakened.
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- These are not experiences that are happening only to the Mother Teresa's of the world and the Buddha's of the world.
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These are experiences that are happening to everyone.
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And when we start to think about the brain, we can look at the areas of the brain that help us to determine which things in our lives are particularly important, are particularly intense to us.
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- A lot of people think that somehow gaining knowledge about the world and how the world works detracts from its beauty.
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Quite the opposite.
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The more we understand, the more we can appreciate, the more we can find wonder and awe.
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- We try to divide it into two basic ideas about enlightenment and one is what I usually refer to as the “small e” enlightenment experiences.
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And these are the kinds of experiences that people have- kind of the sudden epiphany about how to resolve some issue you been working on for a long time, and you suddenly figure it out and you kind of understand things in a different way for the first time.
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But that's the “little e” experience, and the “big E” experiences are usually those experiences that are kind of are life changing.
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They’re mind blowing.
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They change everything about the way you think about the world, about life, about death, about spirituality.
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It changes everything about who you are.
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This usually occurs within an area of our brain called the limbic system, particularly areas such as the amygdala and the hippocampus, which light up, they go crazy when something really important happens in our life.
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Another core element of these experiences, for example, is a feeling of unity, connectedness, oneness.
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There's an area of our brain, a parietal lobe, which is in the back of our brain.
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And this normally takes all of our sensory information and helps us to reconstruct a sense of our self, and how that self relates to the world in some kind of spatial way.
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What we've found that this area of the brain in particular, starts to quiet down when people have these profound experiences of oneness or unity.
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And this makes a lot of sense.
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If it's trying to create your sense of self and your sense of space, if it starts to shut down, well, you lose your sense of self, you lose your sense of space.
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And I suppose ultimately one of the most important aspects of the enlightenment experience is its permanence, is that it rearranges the way our brain works for the rest of our lives.
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And one of the key areas that seems to be involved in that is a very central structure called the thalamus.
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Some people think that the thalamus is actually the seed of consciousness.
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Well, this is an area that seems to be dramatically changed by these kinds of practices and experiences.
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So if you think about it, if the thalamus is changed, it's really changing a person's overall perceptions of reality.
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The way they think about reality, the way they sense reality, and ultimately the way their brain interacts with that reality.
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- There's this notion that somehow scientists have this sterile, clinical, logical, rational view of the world that leaves no room for mystery and awe and magic and wonder.
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On the contrary, everything I learn about how the world is tells me it's full of magic and wonder.
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It's often said that the more we know about the workings of the universe, the more we don't know.
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So our growing understanding really tells us about our growing ignorance.
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I tend to think of our knowledge of the universe, and of reality like an island. The interior of the island is the well-established science that we know very well.
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The shoreline around the island, that's the limits of our understanding.
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And beyond it is the ocean of the unknown.
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Of course, we don't know whether that ocean goes on forever.
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As we gain in our knowledge and understanding.
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The island is growing in size, so we’re reaching out.
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We can take a paddle out into the water to see some of the mysteries that we're trying to tackle now that we still don't understand, but we don't know how much further our understanding needs to go.
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We don't know whether we will ever one day know everything about the nature of reality.
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And in a way that's nice.
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That's exciting.
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- Enlightenment; It's a concept that's very old and it can mean so many different things.
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But in my Zen tradition, it really refers to waking up to the truth of what life is. Most specifically, the interconnectedness of everything.
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The essential oneness of everything.
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On one level, everything exists separately.
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I exist separately from you, and at the deepest level, none of it is separate.
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All of it is completely interconnected and always changing.
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That is awakening to the truth of life.
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Shunryū Suzuki, a very important Zen teacher in the United States in the 20th century, was famous for saying that there's no such thing as an enlightened person.
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There is only enlightened activity.
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And what he meant by that was that no person is finally, fully and forever enlightened.
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There is only this moment’s activity.
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So if I do something that is kind, that pays attention to my interconnectedness with everyone and everything, that is enlightened activity.
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If I do something that's selfish, if I do something that destroys the planet, that is unenlightened activity.
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And so the idea of pursuing enlightenment really is not pursuing a self-improvement project.
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It's pursuing a way to be as compassionate as I can in each moment, to pursue enlightened activity in as many moments as I can string together in my life.
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That's the goal.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “The bizarre science of enlightenment”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: experience, brain, sense, enlightened, enlightenment. Questo video contiene 59 frasi e 1019 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:43. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 152 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| enlighten verbo | /ɪnˈlaɪtən/ | illuminare |
| enlightenment sostantivo | /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/ | illuminismo |
| awaken verbo | /əˈweɪkən/ | svegliare |
| thalamus sostantivo | /ˈθæləməs/ | talamo |
| separately avverbio | /ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/ | distintamente, separatemente |
| epiphany sostantivo | /ɪˈpɪfəni/ | rivelazione |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | stimolare, eccitare |
| hippocampus sostantivo | /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/ | ippocampo |
| paddle sostantivo | /ˈpædl̩/ | pagaia |
| rearrange verbo | /ˌɹiːəˈɹeɪndʒ/ | ricombinare, riarrangiare |
| shoreline sostantivo | battima | |
| sterile aggettivo | /ˈstɛɹəl/ | sterile, infertile |
| spirituality sostantivo | /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/ | spiritualità |
| compassionate aggettivo | /kəmˈpæʃənət/ | compassionevole |
| sensory aggettivo | /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/ | sensoriale |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| reach out verbo | protendersi |
| shut down verbo | spegnere |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 10 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, we're, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: enlightenment /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/, amygdala /əˈmɪɡ.də.lə/, epiphany /ɪˈpɪfəni/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/, interconnect /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈnɛkt/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: enlightenment /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/, thalamus /ˈθæləməs/, detract /dɪˈtɹækt/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: thalamus /ˈθæləməs/, detract /dɪˈtɹækt/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/, paddle /ˈpædl̩/, spirituality /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come enlighten, enlightenment, awaken.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.