跟读练习: The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down:… by Haemin Sunim · Audiobook preview - 通过视频学习英语口语

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The things you can see only when you slow down.
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How to be calm and mindful in a fast-paced world.
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By Haman Soonam.
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Translated by Chi Young Kim and Haman Soonam.
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This book is read by Sean Pratt.
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Prologue As a Zen monk and former professor at a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts,
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I am frequently asked for advice on dealing with life's challenges.
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In addition to sharing my advice in person and over email, a few years ago I began to answer questions over social
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networking sites as I enjoyed the feeling of making connections with people.
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My messages were generally simple, straightforward, and short.
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I sometimes wrote directly in response to a real-life question,
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sometimes as a quick note to myself when I discovered interesting patterns of thought in mindfulness practice or in interactions with people.
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I also discussed the value of slowing down in our busy
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modern lives as well as the art of maintaining good relationships and cultivating self-compassion.
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I did not anticipate the outpouring of responses to my tweets and Facebook posts.
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Many people started sending me messages not only to ask advice, but also to express appreciation and gratitude.
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I still remember a young mother who had lost her husband in a car accident
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and sent me a heartfelt thank you note for saving her from committing suicide,
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saying that she never thought about loving herself because love for her always meant giving it to someone else.
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A busy executive in his forties told me how wonderful it was to start his day with my messages.
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To him, they provided a moment of calm reflection and rest from his hectic schedule.
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A young recent graduate, discouraged after not finding a job, read my supportive words and gave the search another try, finally landing a job.
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When I read his news, I was overjoyed for a couple of days, as if I had gotten my first job.
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It made me profoundly happy that my simple messages could inspire people and help them in their times of difficulty.
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As my messages came to be shared by more and more people, and my number of Twitter and Facebook followers increased, people started calling me a healing mentor,
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which ended up becoming my nickname in Korea.
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I was then contacted by publishing companies offering to turn my writings into a book.
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In 2012, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down came out in South Korea.
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To everyone's amazement, it stayed number one on the bestseller list for 41 weeks
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and sold more than 3 million copies in 3 years.
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Translations followed.
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Into Chinese, Japanese, Thai, French, and now, English.
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I am humbled by the attention the book has received
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and hope it can be of help to readers and listeners of English, just as it has been to readers in Asia and France.
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The book has eight chapters addressing various aspects of life,
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from love and friendship to work and aspirations and how mindfulness can help us in each.
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For instance, I address how to deal mindfully with negative emotions like anger and jealousy, as well as life's disappointments,
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digging deep into my past to share my experience of failure as a new college professor.
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If you are overly conscious, the three liberating insights from Chapter 6 can be quite helpful.
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If you are anxious about your future or unsure about your true calling, I offer advice on how to increase self-awareness and how to discover it.
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Each chapter opens with an essay, which is followed by a series of short messages, words of advice and wisdom addressed directly to you,
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to consider one by one and to reconsider and remember,
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so that they may accompany you in moments of anxiety or despair and remind you that you are not alone.
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Each chapter then continues with a shorter essay, followed by another series of short prompts for meditation.
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Some people read or will listen to the whole book quickly as they would a novel.
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However, I would recommend that you take your time
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and reflect on what you have just heard before moving on to a new chapter.
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You will enjoy it more and find deeper meaning as you go through each chapter slowly.
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You should feel free to make notes about the parts of the book that have resonated with you.
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I hope that spending time with this book becomes an occasion to reflect on and meditate in your busy life.
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I hope it inspires you to connect with the kinder and wiser side of yourself.
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May you be happy, healthy, peaceful, and always protected from harm.
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Chapter 1 Rest Why am I so busy?
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When everything around me is moving so fast, I stop and ask, is it the world that's busy, or is it my mind?
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We usually think of mind and world existing independently of each other.
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If someone asks where our mind is, most of us would point to either our head or our heart, but not to a tree or the sky.
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We perceive a clear boundary between what goes on inside our minds and what happens in the outside world.
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Compared to the vast world outside, the mind nestled inside the body can feel small, vulnerable, and sometimes powerless.
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According to the Buddha's teaching, however, the boundary between the mind and the world is actually thin, porous, and ultimately illusory.
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It is not that the world is objectively joyful or sad and produces a corresponding feeling in us.
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Rather, feelings originate with the mind projecting its subjective experience onto the world.
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The world isn't inherently joyful or sad.
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It just is.
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Perhaps we can better understand this through a conversation I had with a dear friend of mine, a responsible and meticulous Buddhist nun.
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She recently oversaw the construction of a meditation hall in her temple.
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After relating the ordeal of obtaining various permits and finding the right contractor, among other things, she described the construction process in the following way.
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When it came time to place tiles on the roof, I saw tiles everywhere I went.
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I noticed the material they were made of, their thickness, their design, and then, when it was time to install the floor, all I could see were floors.
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I naturally zeroed in on the color, origin, pattern, and durability of a hardwood floor.
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And then, it suddenly dawned on me.
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When we look at the outside world, we are looking at only a small part that interests us.
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The world we see is not the entire universe, but a limited one that the mind cares about.
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However, to our minds, that small world is the entire universe.
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Our reality is not the infinitely stretching cosmos, but the small part we choose to focus on.
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Reality exists because our minds exist.
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Without the mind, there would be no universe.
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The more I reflected on this, the more her insight made sense to me.
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The world comes to exist because we are aware of it.
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We cannot live in a reality of which we are unaware.
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The world depends on our minds in order to exist, just as our minds depend on the world as the subject of our awareness.
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But differently, our mind's awareness can be said to bring the world into being.
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What our mind focuses on becomes our world.
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Seen this way, the mind does not seem so insignificant in relation to the world out there, does it?
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We neither can nor want to know every single thing that happens in the world.
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If we did, we would go crazy from the overload of information.
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If we look at the world through the lens of our mind, the way my friend did, we will readily notice what we are looking for because our mind will focus on it.
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Given that the world we see through our mind's eye is limited, if we can train our mind and choose wisely where to focus,
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then we will be able to experience the world corresponding to the state of our mind.
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As a monk and a college professor, I am pulled in many different directions.
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During the week, I teach and conduct research, and on the weekend I drive a couple of hours to assume duties at my teacher's temple.
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During school breaks, my schedule becomes even busier.
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I need to visit senior monks, serve as an interpreter for monks who don't speak English, go to different temples to give Dharma talks,
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and carve out time for my own meditation practice.
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On top of that, I continue to research and write academic papers.
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To be honest, sometimes I wonder whether a Zen monk should keep to such a full schedule.
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But then I realize it isn't the outside world that is a whirlwind.
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It is only my mind.
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The world has never complained about how busy it is.
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As I look deeper into myself, I see why I am living such a busy life.
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I realize that, to a certain extent, I actually enjoy it.
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背景与上下文

本视频的演讲者是禅宗僧侣和前马萨诸塞州一所小型文理学院的教授海敏·苏宁（Haemin Sunim）。他在视频中分享了如何在快节奏的现代生活中保持冷静和专注的方法。通过自己的经历，他探讨了如何更好地应对生活的挑战，并提到通过社交网络与他人建立联系的重要性。他的著作《慢下来才能看见的事物》在韩国取得了巨大的成功，帮助了无数人找到内心的平静与自我爱的道路。

日常交流中的五个常用短语

  • 慢下来看看周围的事物 - 在忙碌的生活中提醒自己放慢节奏。
  • 保持专注和冷静 - 在压力中找到内心的宁静，形成自信。
  • 与他人建立良好关系 - 教导我们关心他人，从而让自己也变得更加幸福。
  • 应对负面情绪 - 学会如何识别和处理愤怒、嫉妒等情绪。
  • 增强自我意识 - 指导我们理解自己的真正愿望和未来方向。

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为了提高你的英语口语练习能力，尤其是在理解和表达视频内容时，你可以按照以下步骤进行练习：

  1. 观看视频 - 理解讲者的语调、情感和表达方式，注意他所使用的短语和句子结构。
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  4. 结合冥想 - 将所学内容与个人的思考和感受结合，培养更深的理解能力。
  5. 分享和讨论 - 找其他学习英语的人，进行讨论并分享你从视频中学到的内容。

通过这样的练习，你不仅可以提高雅思口语练习的能力，还能在生活中更自信地与他人交流。无论是通过看YouTube学英语，还是在日常的交流中，慢下来，会让你看见更多。

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