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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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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “The Root of Sorrow is Attachment by Anthony De Mello”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: attachment, desire, happiness, sorrow, depend. Questo video contiene 132 frasi e 1081 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:42. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 124 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare. 24 delle sue 132 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| attachment sostantivo | /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ | legame |
| sorrow sostantivo | /ˈsɑɹoʊ/ | tristezza, dolore |
| fulfilment sostantivo | /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/ | adempimento, compimento |
| attain verbo | /əˈteɪn/ | attenere, ottenere |
| loneliness sostantivo | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | solitudine |
| thrill verbo | /θɹɪl/ | elettrizzare |
| withdrawal sostantivo | /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/ | astinenza |
| unhappy aggettivo | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | triste, rattristato |
| culprit sostantivo | /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/ | colpevole, reo |
| detachment sostantivo | /dɪˈtæt͡ʃmənt/ | distacco |
| limpid aggettivo | /ˈlɪmpɪd/ | limpido |
| rediscover verbo | riscoprire | |
| untrue aggettivo | /ʌnˈtɹuː/ | falso |
| hangover sostantivo | /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/ | postumi, postumi della sbornia |
| greed sostantivo | /ɡɹiːd/ | avidità, ingordigia |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- 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?
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 38 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thrill /θɹɪl/, withdrawal /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/, hangover /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, hangover /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, uproot /ˌʌpˈɹut/, fulfilment /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/, loneliness /ˈloʊnlinəs/, culprit /ˈkʌlpɹɪt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, detachment /dɪˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, scratchy /ˈskɹæt͡ʃi/, unattached /ˌʌnəˈtæt͡ʃt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come attachment, sorrow, fulfilment.
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.