シャドーイング練習: Does God exist? | J. Krishnamurti - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

Sixth Question: 'Kindly give a straight reply.

Does God exist, or not? Yes, or no?

If yes, how best to realise Him in this life?' It's a lovely question, isn’t it?

'Kindly give a straight reply.

Does God exist, or not? Yes, or no?

If yes, how best to realise Him in this life?' Man throughout history from the ancient Greeks, from the ancient Sumerians, has had this idea of God.

Right? I'm not at all sure whether in the Upanishads they mention God at all.

Or is it a later invention?

You understand?

So, what is God?

We are investigating, I am not attacking God.

I am not denying God, but we are investigating whether there is such a thing as God.

Who invented God?

Did God invent us, did God create us?

God, who is omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, merciful, just, all goodness. Right?

That’s your concept of God.

And if you say, he has created us, then we are part of his image.

We are part of him.

That is, we are omniscient, generous, loving. Right?

And eternal.

Are we? Or we think we are?

You understand my question?

If God created you, he must be an extraordinary entity because he wants you to lead a terrible life.

You understand my question?

If God made you, why are you like this?

You must be extraordinary human beings, mustn’t you?

Beautiful, full of joy, excitement, full of delight, but you are not.

So either you have created God, or God has created you.

But if you examine very closely, you have created God.

In India, there are about – I was told there are about 300,000 gods and more.

Every local person has his own god.

So, sirs, we have created God.

See the irony of it.

Thought has created God and then thought worships the image which thought has created.

Which is, to worship oneself and call it 'God'.

You understand all this?

'The better part of you is God'. Right?

I wonder if you understand this.

First of all, let’s be clear.

Have you created God?

The local gods, round the corner, or the local god in Rome, or in Tirupati, or wherever, you have created them, haven’t you?

You're so very uncertain, aren’t you? So frightened.

If you say, 'We have created', then you are scared stiff because you have created out of your fear, that.

Out of your fear, you want security.

You want safety, you want to feel there is somebody looking after you because you are afraid. You follow?

So you create that, and then worship that.

Just see what you are doing!

Going to Tirupati and putting all your money in the bag.

Do you think gods want your money?

Sir, look at it all.

You have nothing to offer but money, garlands, prostrations, rituals.

Right? You have nothing else to offer.

Have you realised the tragedy of this, sirs?

If you love, not God, that’s very easy to love God because it's an abstraction, it has not much meaning.

But if you loved, that very love is God, that very love is sacred.

You won’t go outside to look for God.

You understand all this, sirs?

And the questioner wants to know if I believe in God.

I don’t. Because 'God' is not something created by man.

There is such a thing as eternity, which is to be outside of time.

Right, sir?

For that you must have a mind, a heart that is completely free from all the burdens of life.

Right? From your vanity, your arrogance, your selfishness.

You follow, sir?

And we say, we are not capable of it, tell us what to do.

You are back in the cycle, somebody to tell you what to do.

Sir, you're in a jungle, you have to walk through it by yourself.

And for that you need vitality and vigour and strength.

Not belief in God, in goodness – belief has no place where truth is concerned.

Q: Then what is atman, sir?

Atman, about which we have been hearing even Annie Besant in the past.

Atman. K: Who is that?

Q: The conscience inside each of us.

K: Who is atman?

Q: The conscience inside each of us.

K: Is conscience atman?

Q: What they call a soul.

K: Soul. Which soul?

The sole of a shoe? Or soul?

I don’t know what you are talking about.

Q: Atman. K: At last, you are all getting excited!

Because your belief is being attacked.

You are not meeting the challenge, but you are resisting it.

You think there is something inside you which is permanent, which is the light of God, which is nameless, etc, etc, call it 'atman', 'soul', 'light', whatever you like to call it.

That there is inside you, in your conscience, in your brain, in your mind, something which is not worldly, which is not of thought.

Right? You believe that, don’t you? Yes, sir?

Q: No, I don’t believe in it.

K: Why? Q: There is no such thing.

K: How do you know?

Q: (Inaudible) K: Childish. Just belief, belief, belief.

What kind of brains have you, sirs?

Don’t you want to find out?

Don’t you want to investigate into the truth of this matter, whether there is soul, atman, whatever you like to call it?

Just believe. If you believe, what value has it?

Suppose I believe I have got atman, or whatever it is, 'super-atman' I would call it.

I believe in that. What value has it?

In my daily life what part does it play?

I am miserable, I am confused, I’m lonely, anxious, in agony, what’s the point of my having a belief in atman?

If I am free from all that, completely, then I shall find out.

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But to suppose I am, it becomes so childish.

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For God’s sake.

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And we are all grown-up people – jobs, children, wives.

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Q: (Inaudible) K: What, what, what, sir? I don’t understand what you’re saying.

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Q: So many great people… K: Ramana Maharshi and who?

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Q: Ramakrishna.

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K: All right, sir. What about them?

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Q: They lived a simple life (inaudible) K: Sir, would you forget all these people, including Ramana Maharshi, whatever the other gentleman was?

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Would you forget them?

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What value has their life to you?

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You have your life to live, not their life!

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God, what kind…?

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And when the people say they have attained – whatever they have attained – how do you know?

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Q: You have also said there's some timeless eternity.

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K: Ah, I have said it, sir. Don’t believe it!

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Q: That's not fair, sir.

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K: It is not fair, I know, it is not quite fair.

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But, sir, just listen.

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Sir, truth is something you cannot experience.

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It cannot be told to you, the word is not that.

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But if you live on words, it is that.

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You understand?

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The word is not that, like the word ‘tree’ is not the tree.

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I can describe eternity, blah, blah, but the word is not that.

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But we are satisfied with the word.

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Right, sir?

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You love with your heart, with your mind, with everything that you have, you love somebody, and you tell me of that love, and I accept the words but I have no...

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– the flower isn’t there, the perfume isn’t there.

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You see, sirs, you have leaders: religious leaders and political leaders.

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I don’t know why, why you have leaders at all.

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Ramakrishna, whatever gurus that you've had, one after the other.

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This country is full of them.

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And why do you follow? You understand?

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If once you realised that you are responsible entirely for yourself, that you are in a jungle, literally in a jungle, where you have to make your own way out.

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There is nobody to lead you, then you forget all this: the examples, the books, everything, because you have got vitality, strength to go through.

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But the moment you depend on leaders, you become weak.

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If once you realise it, in your heart not just intellectually, then you are a man, a human being, free to walk straight!

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But we don’t want all that.

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Sir, it's so simple when you think of it all.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が138文、単語が1373語あります。音声の長さは18:16です。話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約75語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
belief 名詞	/bɪˈliːf/	確信
conscience 名詞	/ˈkɑn.ʃəns/	良心
investigate 動詞	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/	調べる, 調査する
worship 名詞	/ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/	礼拝
jungle 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/	密林, ジャングル
eternity 名詞	/əˈtɜɹnəti/	永遠, 永久
extraordinary 形容詞	/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/	並外れた, 非凡な
eternal 形容詞	/ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/	永遠の, 永久の
childish 形容詞	/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/	幼稚, 子供っぽい
attain 動詞	/əˈteɪn/	到る, 達成する
invent 動詞	/ɪnˈvɛnt/	発明する
flower 名詞	/ˈfloʊɚ/	花
sake 名詞	/ˈseɪ̯k/	-のために
sixth 形容詞	/sɪksθ/	六番目
deny 動詞	/dəˈnaɪ/	否む, 打ち消す

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる
grow up 動詞	成長する, 大人に成る

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has created · have created · have attained
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	was told · is sacred · is concerned
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	eternity, which is · you which is · something which is

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, isn't, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を23回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: conscience /ˈkɑn.ʃəns/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, childish /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, eternity /əˈtɜɹnəti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, entity /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi], miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。belief, conscience, investigateなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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