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This morning in the meditation, I was reminded of this passage in Moby Dick.

And of course Moby Dick is a great, I think of it as a great poem of consideration of God.

I mean, that's really central to Moby Dick.

And in it, there's a moment in which the cabin boy is thrown off the boat and he's floating in the sea.

And he says, the sea kept him awake,

I mean afloat, but drowned his soul and he looked and saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom,

which is a beautiful image, God's foot upon the treadle of the loom.

But he came back and he was insane.

And says sort of, God's truth is man's insanity.

And my question is, ultimate reality, it's sort of the, what we call a true nature.

How do we know is not like some

Buddhist ideas I think is a void.

How do we know it is fundamentally good?

I mean, I know good is a very insufficient descriptor, but how do we know is not what happened to Pip?

Well, the way we know that the ultimate reality is not a void is by going to our own experience.

I mean, whatever the ultimate nature of reality is, must also be the ultimate nature of ourself.

and we are not able to investigate the ultimate nature of the reality by exploring the world

because we only know the world through our sense perception.

So our only chance of knowing the ultimate reality is to explore our experience of ourself.

And if we go to our experience of ourself, our ultimate experience of ourself, our essential self, which is what we've been doing this week,

and you remove everything from yourself that is not essential, you do initially come to a void,

the passing away of existence, the absence of experience.

And if you stop there, then you say reality is a void.

But that void is the absence of experience.

If you go one step deeper,

And that absence can only remain with reference to the memory of existence.

If that memory disappears, what previously appeared as a void is now revealed as the presence of awareness.

So it's not enough for existence to pass away.

That passing away has to pass away.

So if we think that previously we thought reality was something, then we think, okay, now reality is nothing, it's a void.

But nothing is only something in relation to something.

You have to go one step further.

So, and if we do that in ourself, and that's what we did for instance,

with this going in the floating tank, removing everything.

And at the beginning of the week, if I had asked you, when you've removed your perceptions and sensations and thoughts and images,

what do you experience?

I think that almost all, if not all of you, at the beginning of the week would have said nothing.

But I ask you now, what do you experience when none of you would say nothing?

You'd all say the presence of being.

So that's the first comment.

How do we know that it is...

How do we know that it is good?

Because if we go to that placeless place in ourself, it is a presence, a field, if we can call it,

of pure unity, there's no distinction.

That's what love is, it's the absolute absence of otherness or separation,

and therefore no evil can come from it.

It's pure love, it's pure...

Unity, pure absence of separation, so nothing bad or evil.

It's pure goodness, not good as the opposite of bad.

There's no enmity, there's no hatred, there's no sorrow, there's no separation, there's no evil.

And that's conceptualized, we conceptualize that by saying it's pure goodness, pure peace.

strictly speaking it's even prior to we shouldn't even call it peaceful or good but

we only do so with reference to their opposites evil hatred and so on

I'm sure there's a line in Milton's Paradise Lost, George, which you may well know.

These are thy glorious works, parent of good, almighty, thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair, thyself how wondrous then, unspeakable, who sittest above these heavens to us invisible,

or dimly seen in these thy lowest works.

Yet these declare thy goodness beyond doubt and power divine.

Thank you.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 C1 級別的口語課以影片“Is Ultimate Reality Fundamentally Good?”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：reality, experience, void, ultimate, pure。這段影片共有 60 個句子、733 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:39。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 110 個詞，很適合跟讀。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
conceptualize 動詞		概念化
loom 名詞	/lum/	織機 /織機, 織布機 /織布機
treadle 名詞	/ˈtɹɛdl̩/	踏板
float 動詞	/fləʊt/	浮, 漂浮
hatred 名詞	/ˈheɪtɹɪd/	恨, 仇恨
afloat 形容詞	/əˈfloʊt/	浮著地
enmity 名詞	/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/	敵意 /敵意
unspeakable 形容詞		說不得 /說不得
drown 動詞	/dɹaʊn/	溺水, 淹死
insanity 名詞	/ɪnˈsænɪti/	狂, 瘋病 /瘋病
almighty 形容詞	/ɔːlˈmaɪti/	全能的
sorrow 名詞	/ˈsɑɹoʊ/	悲傷 /悲傷, 悲哀
fundamentally 副詞		根本地, 從根本上
sensation 名詞	/sɛnˈseɪʃən/	感覺 /感覺, 知覺 /知覺
meditation 名詞	/mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/	沉思

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
pass away 動詞	去世, 逝世
come back 動詞	回來 /回來, 返回

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

How do we know it is fundamentally good?
You'd all say the presence of being.
How do we know that it is good?

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 5 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, shouldn't, we've。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: insufficient /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənt/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
長單詞——注意重音位置: insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/, insufficient /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənt/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: void /vɔɪd/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: void /vɔɪd/, ourself /(ˌ)aʊə(ɹ)ˈsɛlf/, wondrous /ˈwʌndɹəs/, float /fləʊt/, hatred /ˈheɪtɹɪd/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: ourself /(ˌ)aʊə(ɹ)ˈsɛlf/, treadle /ˈtɹɛdl̩/, glorious /ˈɡlɔː.ɹi.əs/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 conceptualize, loom, treadle 這類單詞。

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