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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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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку
Этот урок разговорной практики уровня C1 построен на видео «The bizarre science of enlightenment». Чаще всего повторяются слова: experience, brain, sense, enlightened, enlightenment. В этом видео 59 предложений и 1019 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 6:43. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 152 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. 87% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| enlighten глагол | /ɪnˈlaɪtən/ | освеща́ть, освети́ть |
| enlightenment существительное | /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/ | просвеще́ние |
| awaken глагол | /əˈweɪkən/ | буди́ть, разбуди́ть |
| oneness существительное | еди́нство | |
| thalamus существительное | /ˈθæləməs/ | тала́мус |
| separately наречие | /ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/ | отде́льно, врознь |
| amygdala существительное | /əˈmɪɡ.də.lə/ | мозжечко́вая минда́лина, миндалеви́дное те́ло |
| detract глагол | /dɪˈtɹækt/ | отнима́ть, вычита́ть |
| epiphany существительное | /ɪˈpɪfəni/ | прозре́ние, озаре́ние |
| excite глагол | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | волнова́ть, взволнова́ть |
| hippocampus существительное | /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/ | гиппока́мп |
| interconnect глагол | /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈnɛkt/ | свя́зывать, связа́ть |
| limbic прилагательное | /ˈlɪmbɪk/ | лимби́ческий |
| paddle существительное | /ˈpædl̩/ | весло́ |
| permanence существительное | /ˈpɜɹmənəns/ | постоя́нство |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Значение |
|---|---|
| hold out глагол | протянуть |
| light up глагол | свети́ть, освети́ть |
| reach out глагол | связаться |
| shut down глагол | выключить, остановить |
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 10 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например don't, we're, I'm. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Звуки «sh» и «zh»: compassionate /kəmˈpæʃənət/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: enlightenment /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/, amygdala /əˈmɪɡ.də.lə/, epiphany /ɪˈpɪfəni/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/, interconnect /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈnɛkt/
Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:
- Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: rearrange /ˌɹiːəˈɹeɪndʒ/, profound /pɹəˈfaʊnd/
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- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как enlighten, enlightenment, awaken.
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.