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adapt to circumstances so your full potential could come forward.
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Yeah.
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And I thought that's what people want.
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That's what they want.
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They want their full potential to come forward and they see that there are these circumstances.
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What do you have to say about that that would be helpful to people who have that longing?
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For their full potential?
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Yeah.
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Well, the main thing, right, is to get out of your own way, right?
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Do you have a sense that you came into this life with a certain promise of some kind,
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maybe a commitment to the lineage that you're now a part of?
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And did you fulfill that promise?
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Do you have a sense of, I fulfilled my promise?
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And if so, what was that promise you fulfilled?
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Well, you know, I do have that sense.
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I've actually never discussed it with my teachers.
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It'd be interesting to do that.
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But I've had that throughout my life actually, you know, that sense of you're saying fulfill a mission.
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That sounds kind of rings true.
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And what the mission is, you're not quite sure, but you know that it's it's like,
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can you can you can you work in this actually quite painful realm of the human realm,
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you know, and what can you do here for yourself, for others and so forth?
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I have always had that kind of feeling as long as I can remember.
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And but now at my age, I'm really hesitant to.
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I don't know.
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I don't want to concretize it, I don't want to reify it, I don't want to make it something, you know.
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But yeah, I would definitely feel like I had fulfilled the mission.
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Whatever that mission was or is, you know, I would definitely feel like, wow, you know, you can talk about in terms of good karma, you know.
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Wow, you know, to meet the teachers I've met, to receive the instruction I've had, to just have the supportive circumstances I've had.
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Incredible, you know, just incredible.
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Well, and all the tremendous work you've done to be of service and help people and bring wisdom teachings to people.
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Tremendous.
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Well, you see, that's the thing is that that's never been intentional.
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It's never been intentional.
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You know, even though I'm saying that this mission thing has always been real to me, it's been more like how do you kind of adapt to circumstances
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so that your full potential can manifest rather than an intention to help people or to wake up or anything.
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Honestly, it's sort of just, well, waking up, I would say, yeah, that has been an intention to want to wake up.
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But the fact that there's been all these books and all of this happening,
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that feels unreal a lot of the times and very much like just some kind of incredible good karma.
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And then what you do with good karma is you don't waste it, you know, pay it back.
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You pay it back, you pay it back, you get a lot of joy in paying it back.
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And as they say with generosity, you know, if you want to be rich, give everything, keep giving, you know.
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And so it is with awakening too, you know, I think if you want to awaken,
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you just keep letting go and letting go and putting others in front of yourselves and whatever it is.
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You said a very powerful thing, adapt to circumstances so your full potential could come forward.
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And I thought that's what people want.
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That's what they want.
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They want their full potential to come forward and they see that there are these circumstances.
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What do you have to say about that that would be helpful to people who have that longing?
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For their full potential?
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Well, the main thing right is to get out of your
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own way right to kind of let go of your agendas
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to you know in in buddhism it's referred to as ego clinging
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or you know uh self self-importance self-referencing all the time and
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so it's kind of hard you know when you
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when you want to do that uh at
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and to do it without um you know it being all about me that's pretty subtle right yeah
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But that's the only way it can happen.
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The more you get out of the way, it's like, let's just say it's like,
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well, Trungpa Rishi used the analogy of a cocoon for this predicament of it's always all about me.
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And then he describes in his teachings, the Shambhala teachings, how there's a little slit and then you see, oh my goodness, you know,
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there's all that space, there's all that sky out there, fresh air, and you get drawn to it.
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But the minute you, it's like anything about, oh, it's mine, I want it, oh, people will really admire me for this,
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then you're right back into the cocoon again.
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The cocoon is kind of made up of that and what you're drawn to, the infinite, has nothing to do with anybody.
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There's no personality and if there's no you know no ego in it at all.
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So again that's that's a big ask.
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But all this thing we were talking about earlier about working with what's painful in life,
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the groundlessness, the uncertainty, the insecurity,
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what that feels like and completely extending tenderness to that feeling like I was talking about earlier without the spin-off,
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that is not an ego thing.
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That's a kind of ego burning, if you're like burning up the mechanism, or I don't want to get too fancy with the metaphors,
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but it's like a burning up that which is getting in the way of our full potential.
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So that's interesting because full potential doesn't have anything to do with the small self, you know.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “What Happens When You Stop Making It About You”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: potential, circumstances, mission, ego, promise. Deze video bevat 74 zinnen en 982 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 6:27. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 152 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| circumstance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | omstandigheid |
| fulfill werkwoord | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | vervullen |
| cocoon zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈkuːn/ | cocon |
| karma zelfstandig naamwoord | /kərm(ə)/ | karma |
| adapt werkwoord | /əˈdæpt/ | aanpassen |
| awaken werkwoord | /əˈweɪkən/ | wekken, wakker maken |
| intentional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/ | opzettelijk |
| tremendous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/ | ontzagwekkend |
| concretize werkwoord | concretiseren | |
| hesitant bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈhɛzɪtənt/ | schoorvoetend, aarzelend |
| lineage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/ | geslacht, nakomelingschap |
| predicament zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/ | klasse |
| insecurity zelfstandig naamwoord | onzekerheid | |
| unreal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈɹi.əl/ | onwerkelijk, irreëel |
| generosity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹɑ.sə.ti/ | gulheid, vrijgevigheid |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've actually never discussed · I've had · have always had |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who have · that which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 22 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, generosity /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹɑ.sə.ti/, analogy /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/, uncertainty /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: lineage /ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/, yourselves /jəˈsɛlvz/, supportive /səˈpɔɹtɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/, adapt /əˈdæpt/, manifest /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, analogy /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als circumstance, fulfill, cocoon.
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