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一本好书是什么？
What is a great book?
这门课我想让你明白，一本好书能让你真正成为完整的人，因为它向你揭示了宇宙的奥秘，也揭示了做人的真正意义。
What I wanna show you in this class is that a great book is something that makes you fully human by revealing to you the secrets of the universe and the secrets of what it means to be human.
在学校里，你们一直被教导说，人是从进化来的。
Now in school, you've been taught that a person comes from evolution.
对吧？
Right?
我们是从猴子进化而来的。
We evolved from monkeys.
我们99%的DNA和黑猩猩是一样的。
99% of our of our DNA is that of a chimpanzee.
你们还被教导说，这个世界本质上是物质的。
And you're taught that the world is primarily materialistic.
世界就是你能看到、能观察、能测量的东西，仅此而已。
The world is what you can see, what you can observe, what you can measure, and that's it.
这就是学校里教给我们的那个巨大谎言，一场彻头彻尾的欺骗。
And this is the great lie, the great deception that we teach you in school.
我们其实知道这是假的。
And we know it's a lie.
这根本就是个骗局，因为你在学校学的、在这里学到的，将来在大学、研究生院、科学领域、生活中学到的一切，都没法回答一个根本性的问题。
It's a it's a deception because everything that you've taught you've you've been taught in school, everything that you will that you've learned here, that you will learn in university, in graduate school, in science, in life, does not answer a fundamental question.
意识到底是什么？
What is consciousness?
为什么我们看到的世界是这个样子？
Why do we see the world the way it is?
我们是怎么思考的？
How do we think?
我们是怎么产生想法的？
How do we have ideas?
我们真的在交流吗？
Do we communicate?
你不被允许问这个问题。
You're not allowed to ask this question.
所以，你也不被允许问：什么才是成为一个人所必需的？
And therefore, you're not allowed to ask the question, what does it need to be human?
人到底是什么？
What is human?
明白吗？
Okay?
在这门课上，我会向你们展示，作为人有两个层面。
And I will show you in this class that there are two aspects of being human.
当然，一个是物质层面。
There is, of course, the material aspect.
你有身体，但你也有灵魂。
You have a body, but you also have a soul.
清楚吗？
K?
你还有一个灵魂，它将你与灵性或神圣相连。
You also have a soul that connects you to the spiritual or the divine.
明白吗？
Okay?
那就是真正的你。
And that's who you are.
在你内心深处，有一丝来自上帝的灵光。
And the spiritual divide, there's a spark inside of you that comes from God.
正是这缕灵光，让你能够去爱、去想象。
And this spark is what allows you to love and to imagine.
所以，作为一个人，意味着要实践两种根本的行为。
So being a human means to engage in two fundamental acts.
一种是爱，去爱一个人，这让你与上帝合一。
The act of love, of loving someone, which allows you to unify with God.
另一种是想象，拓展你的意识，这让你本身成为上帝。
And the act of imagination, to expand your consciousness, which allows you to to be God itself.
明白吗？
K?
爱是宇宙的统一力量，是神性的力量。
Love is the unifying force of the universe, the God force.
想象力是宇宙的驱动力量。
The imagination is the animating force of the universe.
这正是宇宙最大的奥秘。
And this is the great secret of the universe.
宇宙不是物质的。
Universe is not material.
它是有意识的。
It is conscious.
它本身就是有意识的。
It is conscious itself.
明白吗？
Okay?
这个概念真的很难理解。
So this is a really hard concept to, understand.
明白吗？
Okay?
那我们慢慢来分析。
So let's work for it slowly.
好。
Okay.
我们先来看看康德，后面会读他的内容。
So we have Immanuel Kant, and we'll read Immanuel Kant later on.
明白吗？
Okay?
他一直在探索什么是真实。
And he's trying to figure out what reality is.
我们是怎么感知现实的？
How do we perceive reality?
他的解决方案是这样的。
And his solution is this.
他认为世界分为两部分：一是事物本身，他称之为本体。
He believes that the world is divided into reality itself called a nomana.
本体就是指事物自身，也就是客观现实。
Nomana just means the things in themselves, the objective reality.
另一部分则是现象。
And then there is the phenomena.
我们实际上感知和接触的是现象，并将它们转化为我们所体验的现象。
And what we do basically is that we perceive or we engage the phenomena, and we translate it into the phenomena.
事物本身变成了对我们而言的样子，也就是呈现在我们面前的样子。
The things in themselves become the things to us, the things that appear to us.
我们通过时间和空间的框架来过滤本体。
And we do this by filtering the noumena through time and space.
明白吗？
K?
我们的大脑天生就具备一种能力，能把精神性的东西转化为物质体验。
So our brains are constructed in a way that allows us to perceive the spiritual and turn it into material.
还有一个叫朱利安·詹姆斯的人，他是美国的心理学家，他把这个观点进一步落实到了生理基础上。
So another man named Julian James, he is a American psychologist, and he takes his idea, and he gives it a physical basis.
他主要说的是，我们的大脑分为左右两个半球。
Basically, what he says is that our brains have both a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere.
对。
K?
对。
Right.
左脑。
Left.
右脑负责连接那些我们永远无法直接认识的本体，而左脑则把它们转化成我们能感知的现象。
So what the right hemisphere does is it connects to the nomena, the things in themselves that we can never know, and then the left translates it into the phenomena.
对。
K?
所以大脑里就有这么一个机制来完成这个过程。
So this is a mechanism in the brain that does this.
右脑接收来自精神层面的所有信息，然后左脑通过我们的感官，把这些转化成可感知的现象。
The right hemisphere gets all this information from the the spiritual, and then the left brain for our eyes, for our senses, translates into the phenomena.
明白吗？
K?
清楚了吗？
Are we clear?
好的。
Alright.
那另一个问题呢，呃……
So another question then is oops.
嗯。
K.
那另一个问题就是，什么是本体？
So another question then is, what is the nomena?
明白吗？
K?
这个问题，自古以来就困扰着神秘主义者和僧侣们。
And this is a question that mystics, monks have been struggling with for all human history.
明白吗？
K?
所以我们永远无法描述现象，因为它超越了空间和时间。
And so we can never describe the nomena because it is beyond space and time.
它超出了我们描述的能力。
It's beyond our capacity to describe it.
所以，我只能用比喻的方式来向你们解释。
So, again, I can only explain to you metaphorically.
清楚了吗？
Okay?
它本质上就是意识。
What the really is is consciousness.
意识来源于一种能量，一种振动。
Consciousness comes from an energy, vibrations.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以整个宇宙，说到底都是振动。
So all the entire universe, it's vibrations.
振动传递着信息。
Vibrations carry information.
信息最终化成了意识。
Information becomes consciousness.
清楚了吗？
Alright?
那我们打个比方，说有个源头叫单子。
So let's so let's metaphorically, we say is there's a source called the monad.
明白吗？
Okay?
那个唯一的本源。
The one.
K。
K.
宇宙的中心。
The center of the universe.
神。
God.
Monad 的运作方式是通过呼吸和外显。
And how the monad works is through breathing, emanation.
这会在整个宇宙中产生振动。
And this creates vibrations throughout the universe.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以，Monad 一呼一吸，正是这些振动场构成了宇宙的基础。
So the monad breathes in and breathes out, and this is the basis of the universe, these vibrational fields.
明白吗？
Okay?
但通过这个过程，也会产生其他实体。
But through this process, this also creates other entities as well.
好。
K.
我们把这些叫做二元体。
And we call these the dyads.
这些都是宇宙的基本结构，而二元体还会衍生出其他力量。
And so these are all the basic structure of the universe, and then the dyads create other forces as well.
明白吗？
Okay?
随着宇宙持续振动，这些振动和频率会逐渐变慢。
And as the universe keeps on vibrating, the vibrations, the frequencies become slower.
对吧？
Right?
从高到低，就是这样。
You go from high to low.
嗡。
Om.
因为振动变慢了，物质和实体就开始形成，于是就有了我们这个物质宇宙。
And because it's going slow now, physicality, materialism develops, and this creates the material universe.
明白吗？
Okay?
但你要明白，物质始终和灵性紧密相连。
But the thing to understand is that material is always connected to the spiritual.
整个力量，整个宇宙，都是彼此关联、一体相通的。
This entire force, the entire universe, it's all interconnected together.
它既是万物，又是虚无，同时存在。
It's both everything and nothing at the same time.
明白吗？
Okay?
但问题是，最终我们的世界被创造出来了。
The problem though is that eventually, our world is created.
接着，我们的世界变得物质化，我们有了身体。
And then what happens is our world is materialistic, and we have bodies.
我们的身体属于这个物质世界，但我们的意识源自于神圣之力。
So our bodies are part of this material world, but our consciousness comes from the Divine.
明白吗？
Okay?
这样讲得通吗？
Does that make sense?
我们的身体是通过进化形成的，但我们的意识来自宇宙的振动。
So our bodies are are created through evolution, but our consciousness is created through the vibrations of the universe.
我们的意识与宇宙本身是相连的。
Our consciousness is connected with the universe itself.
清楚了吗？
Alright?
所以，要理解这个概念，你可以想象这些人聚在一起。
So another way we can understand this concept is imagine these people together.
明白吗？
Okay?
你看，所有这些人聚在一起。
You have all these people together.
意识的工作方式是，它是一种无限维度的意识。
So how consciousness works is it's an infinite dimensional consciousness.
事情就是这样发生的。
So this is what happens.
对吧？
Right?
你的意识正在无限地扩展，融入整个宇宙。
Your consciousness is expanding infinitely into the universe.
你会发现，在某个层面上，你其实是独自一人。
As you can see, at one level, you are by yourself.
明白吗？
Okay?
你的意识是你独有的。
Your consciousness is is unique to you.
但在另一个更高的层面上，你和别人是相连的。
But another level, at a higher level, is that you're connected with someone else.
然后你又和另一个人相连。
And then you're connected to another person.
明白吗？
Okay?
就这样一直连下去，直到你和一切融为一体。
And you go on and on until you connect with everything.
在你的意识里，你有能力与整个宇宙相连，只不过这个距离非常非常遥远。
So within your consciousness, it's a capacity to connect with the entire universe, but it's really far, far away.
明白吗？
Okay?
好。
K.
这很复杂，历史上许多哲学家都试图阐明这个真相，这个关乎人类的重大秘密。
So this is complicated, and so different philosophers throughout history have tried to figure out how to best articulate this truth, this great secret to humanity.
我们最好的比喻，就是柏拉图的洞穴寓言。
And the best metaphor that we have is something called Plato's allegory of the cave.
柏拉图的洞穴。
Plato's cave.
这个比喻能帮我们理解：我们是谁，从哪里来，又要到哪里去。
And this helps us understand who we are, where we came from, and where we're going.
明白吗？
K?
这是一个隐喻，一个寓言，帮助我们理解什么是人性，什么是人类的处境。
So this is a metaphor, an allegory that helps us understand what it means to be human and the human condition.
好的。
Okay.
所以柏拉图说的是这样。
So what Plato says is this.
想象一下，有一群囚犯。
Imagine you have these prisoners.
明白吗？
Okay?
他们都被绑着。
And they're all tied down.
手脚都被锁在地面。
They're chained to the ground.
脖子也被锁住。
Their necks are chained.
手臂也被锁住。
Their arms are chained.
所以你连头都转不了。
So you can't move your head.
你根本站不起来。
You can't get up.
明白吗？
Okay?
你只能盯着面前的那面墙看。
And what you're doing is you're watching a wall.
明白吗？
Okay?
这就是一堵墙。
This is a wall.
墙的后面、你的身后，有一堆大火。
And behind the wall, behind you, is this great fire.
火的后面还有一些人。
And then from behind this fire are these people.
我们其实不知道他们是谁。
We don't know who they are actually.
明白吗？
Okay?
但那些人正在摆弄一些雕像，把影子投射到墙上。
But they are putting up these figures, and so they are projecting shadows onto a wall.
因为我们这些囚徒看不到真实世界的全貌，就以为这面墙就是全部现实。
And because we, the prisoners, cannot see the entirety of a reality, we believe that the wall itself is reality.
明白吗？
Okay?
举个例子，电影就是这样。
So so an example of this, of course, is movies.
我们看电影的时候，总觉得电影里的世界才是真的。
We watch movies, and we think this is a reality.
明白吗？
Okay?
那么问题来了：为什么这些人要费尽心思，让我们相信这面墙、这些电影是真实的？
So the question then is, why are these people making this effort to fool us into believing that this wall, these movies are real?
答案是因为他们想奴役我们。
And the answer is because they're trying to enslave us.
明白吗？
Okay?
奴役。
Slavery.
但你可能会想，嗯，是这样。
But then you're like, okay.
可奴役不就是拿把枪指着你说：你不听我的，我就毙了你吗？
But slavery means that I take a gun, and I say, if you don't do what I say, I'll kill you.
但那根本不是奴役。
But that's not slavery is.
如果宇宙是有意识的，那我们的能量就来自注意力。
If the conch if the universe is conscious, okay, our energy comes from our attention.
注意力就是能量。
Attention is energy.
所以他们想要的是我们的精力。
So what they want is our energy.
明白吗？
K?
这才是真正的财富。
That's true wealth.
如果他们能掌控我们的注意力，抓住我们的想象力，就能按他们的意愿塑造现实。
If they're able to focus our energy, capture imagination, they can construct reality in the way that they want it.
对吧？
Okay?
因为现实就是我们想象的样子。
Because reality is what we imagine it to be.
想象力才是宇宙运转的动力。
Imagination is the animating force of the universe.
没错吧？
Right?
所以他们能掌控我们的注意力。
So they can focus our attention.
对我们来说，他们能塑造出自己想要的现实。
For us, they can create their own reality.
明白了吗？
Alright?
现在我们终于明白，为什么要看电影了。
Now we understand why we watch movies.
现在我们终于明白，为什么会有互联网了。
Now we understand why we have the Internet.
现在我们终于明白，为什么学校要你热爱人工智能了。
Now we understand why the school wants you to love artificial intelligence.
因为这是为了控制你。
Because it's to enslave you.
整个人类历史，说到底就是一部被奴役的历史。
It's all of human history is about enslavement.
明白了吧？
Okay?
这就是所谓的进步。
That's what progress is.
你是不是觉得，天哪。
You think that, oh my god.
我现在能看电影了。
I can now watch movies.
天哪。
Oh my god.
我现在就是社交媒体本身。
I am now social media.
我能和任何人交流。
I can communicate with anyone.
天哪。
Oh my god.
我用过ChatGPT。
I've chat GBT.
还有特朗普，你能告诉我这个世界的真实情况。
And Trump, you can tell me the truth about the world.
不行。
No.
所有这些东西都是为了控制你的思想而创造的，因为你本可以接触真理。
All these things are created to enslave your mind because you have access to God.
所以他们想骗你，让你相信这个现实就是真实的。
And so what they're trying to do is trick you into believing that this reality is a true reality.
因为一旦你相信了，这个现实就成了唯一的现实。
Because once you believe that, this reality becomes the only reality.
明白吗？
Okay?
那接下来的问题是，这些人到底是谁？
Then the question is, like, who are these people?
这个我们也不清楚。
Well, we don't know.
明白吗？
Okay?
你可以说他们是精英。
You can say they're the elite.
他们是掌握实权的人。
They're the powers that be.
你也可以称他们为恶魔。
You can also say they're demons.
我们真的不知道。
We don't know.
明白吗？
Okay?
但他们想骗我们，让我们相信那些电影里的世界是真实的。
But they're interested in fooling us in believing into believing that the movies that we see are real.
互联网是真实的。
The Internet is real.
社交媒体是真实的。
Social media is real.
嗯，没错。
Okay.
那问题就来了，就是说……
So then the question then is, okay.
如果这叫奴役，那自由又是什么？
If this is slavery, what is freedom?
好吧。
Alright.
自由就是摆脱这个系统，能自己思考，自己看清楚，做真实的自己。
What freedom is is to escape this system and to be able to think for yourself, to see for yourself, to be yourself.
所以西奥多接着说，好吧。
So Theodore goes on and says, okay.
有个人，不知怎么的，身上的锁链突然断了。
This one guy, for whatever reason, his chains break loose.
他跌跌撞撞地走出洞穴，来到荒野中。
And he stumbles out out of a cave into the wilderness.
明白吗？
Okay?
那片荒野。
The wilderness.
他看到了太阳。
And he sees the sun.
而太阳，当然就是神。
And the sun, of course, is God.
一开始，他被那强光刺得睁不开眼。
And at first, he's blinded by the light.
对。
Yes.
有问题吗？
Have a question?
是的，有。
Oh, yeah.
还行吧。
So so
对。
Yeah.
等一下。
Wait.
对。
Yeah.
你能
Can you
请把话筒靠近一点好吗？
can you speak into the microphone, please?
我之前有个问题，关于自由这块，我想说但——
So I have a question before, like, we talk about the freedom because, like, I'll But,
对，我先解释一下什么是自由好吗？
yeah, can I first explain what freedom is?
好的。
Okay.
当然可以。
Sure.
谢谢。
Thanks.
谢谢你。
Thank you.
好的。
Alright.
明白了。
Alright.
这一切都说得通了。
It it it it all makes sense.
明白吗？
Okay?
好的。
Alright.
好的。
Alright.
所以你走进这个世界，一开始会被光芒晃得睁不开眼。
So you go out into the world, and at first, you're blinded by the light.
明白吗？
Okay?
你还会觉得特别讨厌。
And you hate it.
但你慢慢挣扎着，学会让自己的眼睛适应光线。
But you struggle, and then you you teach your eyes to see.
然后你会意识到，这个世界其实很美。
And then you recognize that this world is beautiful.
它无穷无尽。
It is infinite.
它丰富多彩。
It's diverse.
它充满生机。
It's alive.
你曾经以为真实的世界，其实只是一具尸体。
This world that you thought was real is just a corpse.
那是个死气沉沉的僵尸世界。
It's a dead zombie world.
明白吗？
K?
这才是生活真正的样子。
This is what life is.
明白吗？
Okay?
这就是自由的真意。
And that's what freedom is.
自由意味着你终于能从这场可怕的噩梦中醒来，看清周围的一切——电影、AI学校，全都像牢笼，像地狱。
Freedom means that you are now finally able to awake from this terrible nightmare, see everything that is around us, movies, the AI school, as prison, as as hell.
然后你才能向内看，重新与神相连。
And then you're able to look inside yourself and then connect back to God.
明白吗？
Okay?
灵性。
The spiritual.
超越表象，回归本体。
To look beyond the phenomena and return to the noumena.
深入本体，那其实是振动，是能量。
To peer into the noumena, which is vibrations, energy.
明白吗？
Okay?
好了。
Alright.
这样就把洞穴里的算法清理干净了。
So that clears the algo of the cave.
这说得通。
This makes sense.
对吧？
Right?
那现在就引出一个问题，就是——
Now this raises the question, which is, okay.
这没问题。
That's fine.
但我们该怎么逃出去呢？
But how do we escape?
明白吗？
Okay?
我们该怎么追求自由？
How do we seek freedom?
明白吗？
Okay?
你看所有的宗教传统，不管是佛教、印度教、道教、基督教还是犹太教，都是一样的。
So if you look at every single religious tradition, whether it's Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, Judaism, doesn't matter.
明白吗？
Okay?
每个宗教提出的解决方法其实都一样，那就是冥想。
Every single religion proposes the same solution, which is meditation.
明白吗？
Okay?
那什么是冥想？
What's meditation?
好的。
Okay.
那我们开始吧。
Let's alright.
咱们这就开始。
So let's start.
如果世界本质上是一种振动，一种流动，那这种流动一定有其内在规律。
If the world is vibration, if it flows, there must be a logic to this flow.
这种运动一定有某种特定的结构。
There must be a certain structure to this movement.
明白吗？
Okay?
古埃及人认为，支配这种流动的是神圣几何的概念。
And the Egyptians proposed that what governs this flow is the idea of sacred geometry.
对吧？
K?
神圣几何
Sacred geometry.
明白吗？
K?
他们花了数千年时间才弄明白，振动能量是沿着特定的几何模式流动的。
This is what they just spent thousands of years figuring out that the vibrational energy flows in certain geometric patterns.
明白吗？
Okay?
这些几何模式正是宇宙本身的基础。
And these geometric geometric patterns are the basis for the universe itself.
如果我们理解了这一点，就可以用几何学来重塑我们的意识，让它跟宇宙的振动节奏同步。
So now if we understand this, take geometry, what we we can do now is construct our conscious in a way that allows us to match the vibrational flow of the universe.
明白吗？
K?
与宇宙达成和谐。
To harmonize with the universe.
对吧？
Right?
那该怎么做呢？
And how do you do that?
靠呼吸来实现。
You do that through breathing.
明白吗？
K?
呼吸练习。
Breath work.
因为通过呼吸，你会把自己的意识调整成与宇宙一体的形态。
Because by breathing, you're gonna structure your consciousness in a way that becomes part of the universe itself.
清楚吗？
Alright?
这需要几十年时间，但你确实能做到。
And this will take decades, but you can do this.
当你能与宇宙的振动频率和谐一致时，现实本身就会向你展现它的真面目。
And then when you're able to harmonize with vibration flow of the universe, then reality itself reveals itself to you.
明白吗？
Okay?
你会开始觉得这个世界是虚幻的。
You're gonna see this world as false.
你现在能够连接到真正的灵性宇宙了。
You're able now to connect to the true spiritual universe.
明白吗？
Okay?
这才是真正的意识，世界上所有的修行者都在追求这个。
So this is true consciousness, and this is what all monks in the world are trying to do.
明白吗？
Okay?
你是在试图超越肉体，融入灵性之中。
You're trying to leave your body and embrace the spiritual.
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因为当你这么做时，就能与神圣相连，领悟宇宙的奥秘。
Because when you do that, it allows you to connect with the divine and discover the secrets of the universe.
你能同时看到表象和本质。
You're able to see both the phenomena as well as the nomena.
明白吗？
K?
这其实是所有宗教的核心秘密。
And this is a great secret of all religions.
所有宗教都在实践这一点。
This is what all religions practice.
同时，其实还有一些窍门。
At the same time, there are actually some hacks.
明白吗？
Okay?
窍门。
Hacks.
所以冥想本该是你该做的事，但很多人会想，你知道吗？
So meditation is what you're supposed to do, but a lot of people are like, you know what?
这可是几十年、几十年的独处，一直冥想，试图弄明白怎么与宇宙连接。
This is a long time, like decades and decades of isolation, of just meditation, of trying to figure out how to connect the universe.
K?
K?
这可是几十年，甚至可能上百年。
That's decades and decades, possibly a hundred years.
肯定有更简单的方法。
There must be an easier way.
确实有。
And there are.
Okay?
Okay?
这些方法不算完美，但确实存在。
They're not great, but there are.
我们终于找到了办法。
And we figured it out.
明白吧？
Okay?
所以第一个你可以用的方法是致幻剂。
So the first half that you can use is psychedelics.
对吧？
Right?
这些药物，比如迷幻蘑菇、死藤水、佩奥特碱，随便哪种都行。
So these drugs, and they could be magic mushrooms, they'd be ayahuasca, peyote, whatever.
明白吧？
Okay?
但它们能改变你的意识状态，打乱左脑的运作，让你更专注于右脑，从而让你看到。
But they alter your consciousness in a way that disrupts your left hemisphere and allows you to focus on your right hemisphere, which allows you to see the.
明白吧？
Okay?
当你看到那些景象时，你会忍不住说：天哪。
When you see the, you're like, oh my god.
那其实就是能量。
It's just energy.
明白吗？
Okay?
就是颜色，满满的都是颜色。
It's just colors, colors, colors.
如果你上网看看那些用过致幻剂的人画的画，就会发现它们特别鲜艳。
So if you go online and you see artwork from people who've used psychometallics, you will see that it's very colorful.
明白吗？
Okay?
而且特别强烈。
And it's very strong.
全都是振动的频率。
It's all vibrational.
所以这是一种技巧。
So that's one hack.
另一个你可以用的技巧是自我克制。
Another hack that you can use is self denial.
好的。
K.
你确实可以通过禁食来让自己挨饿。
So it's possible you can starve yourself fasting.
明白吗？
Okay?
你也可能光着身子在寒冷中外出。
It's possible that you go out naked in the cold.
行吧？
K?
但当你身体衰竭、濒临死亡时，你的意识会转向灵性层面。
But when you collapse your body and you're approaching death, your consciousness shifts into the spiritual.
嗯嗯
K?
所以你要明白，死亡并不是终点。
So what's important to understand is death is not the end.
死亡是一种解脱。
Death is release.
因为我们所处的这个世界，我们的身体，其实就像一座牢笼。
Because this world that we live in, our bodies, are the prison.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以别害怕死亡。
So don't fear death.
它只是自然循环中的一部分。
It's just part of the of the natural cycle.
明白了。
Okay.
第三种叫做濒死体验。
And the third is something called NDs, near death experiences.
这些人其实并不想死，可能是遭遇了车祸，或者差点淹死。
So these are people who don't want to die, but they might be in a car accident or they could have drowned.
明白吗？
Okay?
他们确实死了大概五分钟。
And they died for, like, five minutes.
结果他们全都醒过来，说的都是同一件事。
What happens and they all come back and say the same thing.
在他们死去的那一刻，灵魂脱离了身体，进入了灵性世界，见到了神。
When they die, they escape into the spiritual realm, and they meet God.
明白吗？
Okay?
这些人都素不相识，却对濒死体验的描述惊人地一致——他们去的那个世界，就是柏拉图所说的那个世界。
And these are people who don't know each other, but they say the same thing about the near death experience, which is the world that they go into, it is Plato's world.
就像走出洞穴，走进光明的世界。
It's like escaping the cave and going to the world of the light.
那是一个充满慈悲、爱与宽恕的世界。
It is a world of of compassion, of love, of forgiveness.
仿佛你重新与神圣连在了一起。
It is as though you're connected again with the divine.
明白吗？
Okay?
对吧？
Alright?
不过呢，还有另一种说法，这正是基督徒所相信的。
And then, but there's also another way, and this is what the Christians believe.
明白吗？
Okay?
咱们来聊聊耶稣吧。
So let's talk about Jesus.
对吧？
Right?
基督徒和神秘主义者认为，耶稣能够完全与神圣相连。
So Christians, mystics believe that there's a way for Jesus to connect fully with the divine.
明白吗？
Okay?
这就是所谓的基督意识。
And this is the idea of the Christ consciousness.
好的。
Okay.
明白了。
Okay.
我会慢慢解释这是怎么运作的，不过这非常复杂。
So, I'm gonna explain slowly how this works, but it's very complicated.
明白吗？
Okay?
如果听不懂就随时打断我。
So interrupt me if this is confusing.
好的。
Alright.
关键是要明白，我们并不是现实的旁观者。
So what's important to understand is that we're not just passive observers of reality.
我们是现实的积极参与者。
We're active participants in reality.
康德就是这么告诉我们的。
That's what Kant teaches us.
明白吗？
Okay?
当我们接收这些振动时，我们自己也在通过想象力产生共振。
So as we are receiving all these vibrations, we ourselves are vibrating are vibrating, k, through our imagination.
这样讲清楚了吗？
Does that makes does that make sense?
当我们接收信息并形成记忆时，会把这些记忆注入意识，从而改变整个宇宙。
So as we are receiving information, which allows us to create memories, we then implant our memories into this consciousness, which changes the universe.
你可以把互联网想象一下。
So think of the Internet.
对吧？
Right?
你有一台电脑，或者一台笔记本。
You have a computer, have a laptop.
它能运行，是因为它连接着互联网。
It works because it connects to the Internet.
它从网上获取信息，但你也会修改这些信息。
It's receiving information from the Internet, but then you change this information.
修改后的信息又会传回互联网。
It goes back in in into the Internet.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以研究记忆的时候，你其实正在参与一个宇宙的运作。
So for memories for the research of memories, you are participating in a in in a universe.
明白吗？
Okay?
好的。
Alright.
再打个比方，你可以想象一片海洋。
Well, another another metaphor that we can use is think of an ocean.
想象一片海洋。
Think of think of an ocean.
对吧？
Right?
无数小石子落入海中，激起一圈圈涟漪。
And all these pebbles are dropping in the ocean, which creates vibrations.
你就是那颗石子。
You are that pebble.
明白吗？
Okay?
你在这个世界上的角色，就是尽可能激起最大的浪花。
And your role in the world is to create as much of a splash as possible.
明白吗？
Okay?
去振动，去共鸣。
To vibrate.
古希腊人管这叫‘eudaimonia’，意思是人生的目的就是发挥你最大的创造力，茁壮成长，绽放自我，尽情想象，最大限度地振动起来。
The Greeks have a term for this called eudaimonia, which is the purpose of life is to be your creative best, to flourish, to blossom, to imagine, to vibrate as much as possible.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以关键在于，如果我们所有人都同时相信某件事是真的，它就会变成真的。
So what is important is that if we all, at the same time, imagine something to be true, it becomes true.
明白吗？
Okay?
那世界上最有名的人是谁？
So who's the most famous person in the world?
耶稣。
Jesus.
对吧？
Right?
耶稣是永生的。
So Jesus is immortal.
因为有二十亿人爱着他，时时刻刻想着他，相信他是自己生命的一部分。
He's eternal because there are 2,000,000,000 people in the world who love him, who imagine him all the time, who believe that he's part of their lives.
正因如此，耶稣至今依然与我们同在，只是他的能量层次更高了。
And because of their imagination, Jesus still is still with us today, but he's at a high vibration.
明白吗？
Okay?
清楚了吗？
Alright?
所以他处于高频振动状态。
So he's at high vibration.
耶稣。
Jesus.
那么问题来了，你怎么让耶稣复活？
Then the question is, how do you resurrect Jesus?
你怎么把他带回来？
How do you bring him back?
答案就是，让你的身体成为耶稣回归的载体。
And the answer is by making your body a vessel for Jesus to return in.
明白吗？
Okay?
通过特定的灵性修炼，只要你真心欢迎耶稣，你的身体就能成为他入驻的通道。
Your body can become a portal for Jesus to inhabit, to possess if you welcome Jesus through certain spiritual practices.
明白吗？
Okay?
比如爱、慷慨和宽恕。
Including love, generosity, forgiveness.
明白吗？
Alright?
如果有人杀了你的儿子，你可能会恨他，但如果你能真正原谅他——听好了，要是有人杀了我的孩子，我肯定气疯了。
If if someone killed your son, you may hate that person, but if you're able to forgive that person and show true forgiveness because listen, if someone killed my children, I'd be pissed off.
明白吗？
Okay?
我肯定会一辈子恨他。
I would I would would hate that person forever.
但如果你能出于自己的意愿，主动选择原谅他，你就能向神圣敞开自己。
But if you're able to, to yourself, forgive that person of your own free choice, you open yourself up to divinity.
明白吗？
Okay?
而这份神圣，才可能流入你体内。
And this divinity cannot flow into you.
这就是我们所说的基督意识，或者耶稣的第二次降临。
And this is what we call the Christ consciousness or the second coming of Jesus.
如果你是基督徒，你会相信耶稣终将再临。
So if you are a Christian, you believe the second coming that that Jesus will return.
基督教神秘主义者认为，只要你敞开心扉迎接耶稣，他随时都可以再次降临。
And Christian mystics believe that, yes, he can always return if you open your heart to Jesus.
但你必须重塑自己的身体、思想和整个存在，为耶稣的入驻做好准备。
But you have to construct your body, your mind, your carceral in a way that allows for Jesus to inhabit you.
明白吗？
Okay?
这就是宇宙的奥秘。
So this is the secret of the universe.
这个世界、这个宇宙，其实都存在于我们的意识之中。
The world, the universe, exists in our consciousness.
真正真实存在的，是意识本身。
The consciousness is what's real.
物质的东西才是虚幻的。
The material is what's false.
我们通过想象参与宇宙，也在改变宇宙。
And as we imagine, we participate in in the universe, we change the universe.
我们专注于某种现实。
And we focus on a certain reality.
这种现实就会显现出来。
That reality becomes manifest.
它就变成了真正的现实。
It becomes reality itself.
明白吗？
K?
通过活在他人的记忆里，我们就如耶稣一样获得了永恒。
And by living in the memories of others, we become immortal like Jesus.
当我们以让耶稣重返的方式生活，就能在自己体内复活耶稣。
And by constructing our lives in a way that allows for Jesus to return, we can resurrect Jesus in ourselves.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以这可是宇宙的一个奇妙秘诀。
So that's a good secret secret to the universe.
这秘密关系到永生、轮回和成神。
This is a secret to immortality, reincarnation, and godhood.
好。
K.
就是这三件事。
These three things.
但大多数人会失败。
And most of us will fail.
不过没关系，为什么呢？
But it's it's okay because why?
因为我们的意识是永恒的。
Because our consciousness is forever.
所以转世的意思是，当我们死后，灵魂可以回归灵性世界，也许过上一千年，我们又会重新回来。
So reincarnation means that when we die, we can escape back from the spiritual, and then maybe a thousand years later, we come back.
明白吗？
Okay?
这其实是一个有意识的循环，我们努力追求的正是这三件事：永生、转世和成神。
So it's a conscious cycle where we're trying to achieve these three things, immortality, reincarnation, and godhood.
而其中的秘密，就是爱，是想象力的力量。
And the secret is love, power in our imagination.
明白吗？
Okay?
我们来到这个世界，就是为了去想象各种可能性。
We're here to imagine things.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以这真是宇宙的一个伟大秘密。
So this is a great secret of the universe.
这个秘密被宗教在数千年的历史中代代相传，而学校、科学、政府——所有掌握权力的机构却都在试图压制它，因为这直接威胁到现有的现实。
This is a secret that religions have passed on through thousands of years of human history and which schools, science, government, all the powers that be try to suppress because this is a direct threat to this reality.
明白吗？
Okay?
这个现实其实是虚假的，但他们想让它显得真实，因为他们的权力正来源于这个现实。
This reality is false, but they wanna make it real because they derive power from this reality.
懂吗？
K?
你们觉得这有道理吗？
Does that make sense, guys?
懂吗？
K?
你们在学校里学的，就是这些。
I mean, that you've been taught in school.
你们在科学课上学到的，也是这些。
I mean, that you've learned in science class.
这完全是胡说八道。
It is complete and utter nonsense.
这才是真相。
This is what's true.
明白吗？
Okay?
好了。
Okay.
既然我们明白了这些，就能理解那些经典著作了。
So now that we understand all of this, we can also understand the Great Books.
这学期我要告诉你们的是，如果你真想实现这三件事——永生、轮回、成神，秘密就藏在那些经典里。
Because what I will show you this semester is, if you truly want to achieve these three things, immortality, reincarnation, godhood, the secrets lies in the great books.
经典著作的结构，本身就让你能窥见宇宙的全部奥秘。
The great books are constructed in a way that allows you to access the entire secrets of the universe.
明白吗？
Okay?
伟大的著作，就是把宇宙的某种状态凝固了下来。
So what the Great Books are, it is a capturing of the universe in a state.
因此，伟大的著作里头藏着一个完整的宇宙。
And as a result, there's a universe within the great books.
当你真正拥抱这些著作，让它们进入你内心，再走进去，你就能在另一个宇宙中遨游，同时也能开始创造属于你自己的宇宙。
And by embracing the great books, by letting the great come into you and then you enter the great books, you have the capacity to travel in a new universe, but you also have the capacity now to create your own universe.
这就是伟大的著作真正的意义。
And that's what the great books are.
明白了吗？
Okay?
它们揭示了什么是真正的人性。
They are the secret of what it means to be human.
它们带来了如何成为完整、真正的人的秘密。
They brought the secret of how to be truly, fully human.
清楚了吗？
Alright?
我们接下来要做的就是这样。
And we and what we'll do is this.
这可不是说，过个三个月、一个学期之后，你就怎么样了。
We this is not meant to be, okay, a semester later on, like, three months from now.
你不会变得永生。
Oh, you'll be immortal.
你也不会变成神。
You'll be God.
不会。
No.
根本不是这么回事。
No.
事情不是这样的。
That's not the way it works.
明白吗？
Okay?
我给你们指一条路，但能不能专注、能不能为此付出，全看你们自己。
What I will show you is a path, but it's up to you to focus and sacrifice yourself on this path into enlightenment.
明白吗？
Okay?
打个比方，大家都懂游泳是最好的运动。
Metaphor a a simple analogy is everyone knows swimming is the best exercise in the world.
对吧？
Right?
如果我只说‘去游泳吧’，可不意味着你一天就能学会。
Well, if I'm if I just say, go swim, doesn't mean you learn how to swim in one day.
要真正游得好，得花上几十年功夫。
It'll take you decades to learn how to swim really well.
我们都清楚，冥想对身体特别有好处。
We all know meditation is really good for you.
对吧？
Right?
但你要花上几十年才能真正把冥想练好。
But it'll take you decades to fully learn how to meditate well.
明白吗？
Okay?
这是一辈子的旅程，而且需要你付出牺牲。
So this is a journey that is lifelong, but it's a journey that requires sacrifice.
这趟旅程要求你彻底读懂那些经典著作。
It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books.
我没法把所有经典都教给你。
I can't teach you all the great books.
我也无法把经典里的所有奥秘都传授给你。
I can't teach teach you all the secrets of the great books.
我只能给你一个框架。
I can only give you a framework.
明白吗？
Okay?
你必须放下这个虚假的物质世界。
And you must abandon this material reality that is false.
明白吗？
Okay?
放下金钱、权力、性欲和名望，专心去研读那些伟大的著作。
Abandon money, power, sex, fame, and focus on embracing the great books.
当你这么做了，整个宇宙就会进入你的内心。
And when you do that, the universe comes into you.
懂吗？
K?
基督徒希望被耶稣充满。
Christians want to be possessed by Jesus.
他们希望耶稣进入自己体内，让基督在自己里面复活。
They want Jesus to enter them and resurrect Jesus.
在自己心中孕育出基督的意识。
Create the Christ conscious in them.
我们真正想做的，是迎接人类文明最伟大的思想家。
What what we wanna do is we wanna welcome the greatest minds of human civilization.
我们这个时代先知。
The prophets of our time.
人类的先知——荷马、柏拉图、但丁——让他们的智慧进入我们的意识，让我们真正成为完整的人。
The prophets of human of humanity, including Homer, Plato, Dante, caught into our consciousness so we can be fully human.
明白吗？
K?
我们要做基督徒想做的事，只不过不是让耶稣进入我们，而是让荷马、但丁、康德、柏拉图，还有任何你敬仰的人进入你的心灵。
So we're gonna do what the Christians wanna do, but instead of Jesus, we'll have Homer, Dante, Kant, Plato, and anyone else you want.
明白吗？
Okay?
你可以自己选，希望谁来进驻你、融入你。
Who like, it's your choice who you want to come and possess you, who wanna come and enter you.
明白吗？
K?
现在，我要教你们一个秘诀，如何让荷马和但丁在你们内心复活。
You are now you now I will teach you the power, the secret to resurrect Homer and Dante inside of you.
但再说一遍，这完全由你们自己决定。
But, again, first of all, it's your choice.
其次，你们必须放下这个世界，才能做到这一点。
Second of all, you must abandon the world to do this.
第三，你们必须倾尽一生去践行这件事。
And third of all, you must dedicate your entire life to do to doing this.
明白吗？
Okay?
这门课只是做个示范。
So this class, it's just meant to be a sample.
明白吗？
Okay?
但它并不会提供所有答案。
But it's not meant to provide all the answers.
明白吗？
Okay?
有什么问题吗？
Any questions?
你是不是有什么问题？
Are you so you you have a question?
是的。
Yeah.
谢谢。
Thanks.
对。
Yeah.
我们再回到你刚才在屏幕上画的那个墙和影子的模型吧。
So so, like, so back to the model you drew on the, on the screen about the wall and the shadow.
那些被当作奴隶的人，还有那些制造影子、试图为奴隶构建现实的人，对这些奴隶来说，他们以为那个影子就是真实的世界。
So so for people who use that be be slaves and, like, for the people who create a shadow that they are trying to to create the reality for those people who who who was called slave, but for those slave people that they think this is, like, the the shadow on world.
那些东西对他们来说就是现实，也是他们眼中的世界现象。
The the those things are the reality, and those things, for them are the phenomena of the world.
那他们该怎么摆脱这些，去追寻真正的东西，而不是那些假象呢？
So, like, so how could they, like, to to escape them and to chase the the real not not the
好的。
Okay.
我明白了。
I understand.
好的。
Okay.
对。
Yeah.
好的。
Okay.
你其实并不清楚发生了什么。
You you don't really understand what's going on.
明白吗？
Okay?
好了。
Alright.
我再解释一遍。
Let let let me explain explain it again.
明白吗？
Okay?
行。
K.
你以为你懂了。
You you think you know.
明白吗？
Okay?
但你根本不知道真正发生了什么。
But you don't know what's really happening.
明白吗？
Okay?
好了。
Alright.
这些囚犯，才是真正有能力塑造现实的人。
These prisoners, they're the ones who have the capacity to create reality.
明白吗？
Okay?
你懂这个吧。
You understand this.
现在，力量在他们背后。
Now the power is behind them.
这些人将拥有塑造现实的能力。
These people will have the power to create reality.
所以我需要做的，就是骗他们去创造我想要的现实。
So what I need to do is trick them into creating the reality that I want them to create.
这你明白吧？
Does that make sense?
对吧？
Okay?
这些才是真正掌权的人，他们躲在暗处，给你设下各种圈套。
So these are the powers that be, and they hide in the shadows, and they give you tricks.
他们用欺骗和操控，让你觉得自己是个奴隶，还让你以为自己想创造的现实，其实正是他们想要你创造的。
They use deception, manipulation in order to trick you into thinking that you're a slave, and they're tricking you into wanting to create a reality that they want you to create, but which you think you wanna create.
明白吗？
Okay?
世界就是这样运行的。
And that's how the world works.
我们才拥有神一般的力量。
The we are the ones with the power of God.
我们才拥有想象力。
We're the ones with imagination.
背后那些人根本没有想象力。
The ones behind us don't have an imagination.
他们有权力，但没有想象力。
They have power, but they don't have imagination.
明白吗？
K?
所以他们得骗我们，让我们自己想去创造他们想要的世界。
So they need to trick us into wanna create the world they want us to create.
世界就是这样运作的，各位。
And this is how the world works, guys.
对吧？
Right?
为什么说上学就是当奴隶？
Why do mean school being a slave?
我们说：我才不是当奴隶呢。
We say, I'm not being a slave.
我是在自由地生活。
I'm being free.
我上学是为了考上好大学，赚大钱，过上幸福的生活。
I'm in school so I can get into a good college, make a lot of money, and live a happy life.
明白吗？
Okay?
你被忽悠了。
You've been tricked.
但说实话，根本不是这样。
But the truth is, no.
不是。
No.
不是。
No.
你并不需要钱才能快乐。
You don't need money to be happy.
你根本不需要任何东西就能快乐。
You don't need anything to be happy.
你有你自己。
You have yourself.
明白吗？
K?
你有你的想象力。
You have your imagination.
你有去爱任何人的能力。
You have the compassion to love anyone.
只要你爱自己的妈妈，爱自己的爸爸，爱身边所有的人，你就会快乐。
If you just love your mother, if you just love your father, if you love everyone around you, you'll be happy.
你根本不需要钱。
You don't need money.
你会说，不可能。
You're like, no.
不对。
No.
根本不是。
No.
我得赚十亿美元，才能给我弟弟买辆保时捷。
I need I need a billion dollars to buy my brother a Porsche.
我还得给我妈妈买艘游艇。
I I I need to buy my mother a yacht.
我妈妈真正想要的就是这个。
That's what my mother really wants.
你被误导了。
You've been tricked.
明白吗？
Okay?
这个世界就是这样运作的。
That's how the world works.
所以这其实很简单。
So it's really easy.
只要对自己说：我是个奴隶。
Just say to yourself, I'm a slave.
而我拒绝当奴隶。
And I refuse to be a slave.
我拒绝听别人怎么说。
I refuse to listen to what everyone tells me.
但在世界上做到这一点很难，因为这意味着你要脱离现实。
And that's a hard thing to do in the world because, like, it would mean your rejection from reality.
对吧？
Right?
这意味着你将失去所有朋友。
It would mean, oh, I have no more friends.
我的父母也会讨厌我。
My parents hate me.
我是个失败者。
I'm a loser.
在学校里，人人都笑话我。
Everyone makes fun of me at school.
明白吧？
Alright?
这就是我们所处的现实。
So that's the reality we live in.
我们极度害怕被孤立。
We fear so so isolation.
我们害怕被人嘲笑。
We fear being laughed at.
所以即使心里清楚这一切都是假的，我们还是随波逐流。
So we just go with the flow even though in our hearts, we know this is all a lie.
这所学校，老师教的东西，全都是胡扯。
This school, what the teachers teach us, it's all nonsense.
ChatGPT，它一直在骗人。
Chat GPT, it's liars all the time.
追求金钱只会让我更不快乐。
Seeking money, is gonna make me unhappy.
我为什么要追求金钱？
Why am I seeking money?
不是为了自己，而是因为你害怕被别人指指点点。
Not for yourself, because you fear social condemnation.
你害怕被人嘲笑。
You fear being laughed at.
所以你才想要钱。
That's why you want money.
所以你才在学校里拼命想搞到钱。
That's why you want you wanna do it while in school.
一旦你认清了这一点，你就自由了。
Once you accept that, then you are free.
你能做到吗？
Can you do that?
做不到。
No.
做不到。
No.
做不到。
No.
你根本做不到。
You can't do that.
因为你这一辈子都被洗脑了，总以为看到的就是真实的东西。
Because all your life, you've been brainwashed, and you're thinking like the thing you see is what's real.
明白吗？
Okay?
从电影、学校、家庭教育、朋友，到所谓的现实，都是这样。
Through movies, through school, through parenting, through friends, through reality.
明白了吗？
Okay?
所以，西奥多的算法游戏告诉我们的是这个。
So that's what Theodore's algorithmic game teaches us.
来猜猜看，朋友们？
So guess what, guys?
你很可能失败。
You'll probably fail.
但如果你能成功，你就会真正获得自由、快乐和想象力，那时你就能超越凡俗，达到永恒。
But if you're able to succeed, you'll be truly free and happy and imaginative, and that will allow you to ascend into immortality.
是的。
Yeah.
真的吗？
Yeah?
所以
So
有一种状态是自由，另一种状态是被奴役。
there's this state of being free and the state of being enslaved.
有没有可能，一个奴隶明明知道自己被奴役，却依然主动拒绝去追求自由？
Can there be a slate can there be a slave that consciously realizes that they're being enslaved and also consciously refuses to go out to, like, embrace freedom?
不好意思。
Sorry.
但那恰恰就是奴隶的定义。
That that's what a slave is, though.
对吧？
Right?
奴隶就是那种明明可以选择自由，却偏偏选择继续当奴隶的人，这完全是他们自己的决定。
A slave is someone who wants to be a slave, who chooses to be a slave because it's all it's all choice.
这完全是出于自由意志。
It's all free will.
对吧？
Right?
我没法逼你这么做。
I cannot make you do this.
我没法逼你，强迫你欺骗自己。
I cannot I cannot make you, force you to lie to yourself.
你得自己选择去欺骗自己。
You have to lie you have to choose to lie to yourself.
你明白吗？
You understand?
别以为你在被强迫。
Don't think you're being coerced.
别觉得你在被奴役。
Don't think you're are being enslaved.
是你自己选择来上学的。
You choose to come to school.
是你自己选择去接受谎言的。
You choose to be to be lied to.
你选择接受事情本来的样子。
You choose to accept the things as they are.
自由意志是宇宙的第一原则。
Free will is number one principle of the universe.
明白吗？
Okay?
你说你被迫当奴隶，那其实是在骗自己。
When you say, like, I'm I'm forced to be a slave, you're lying to yourself.
这一直都是你的选择。
It's it's always been your choice.
懂吗？
K?
这说得通吗？
Does that make sense?
这一直都是你的选择。
It's always been your choice.
这些囚徒，我的意思是，他们根本挣脱不了那些锁链。
These prisoners, they I mean, like, they can't break those chains.
但他们其实可以的。
They probably could.
明白吗？
Okay?
那你觉得，要是有个人亲眼见过真实的世界，回来告诉大家：嘿，朋友们——
And what do you think is gonna happen when this guy who's seen the real world when he comes and tells everyone, hey, guys.
我看到真实的世界了。
I've seen the real world.
咱们逃出去吧。
Let's get out of here.
他会遭遇什么？
What's gonna happen to him?
他们会杀了他。
They're gonna kill him.
对吧？
Right?
这就是柏拉图说的。
That's what Plato says.
如果你敢说出真相，而人们知道了真相，他们会因为你说出真相而杀了你。
If you dare speak the truth and people know the truth, they will kill you for speaking the truth.
明白吗？
Alright?
所以别试图让别人接受真相。
So don't try to convince anyone of the truth.
你只要自己明白真相，获得内心的自由就够了，但永远别想说服那些不愿听的人。
Just know the truth for yourself and be free yourself, but you can never ever convince someone who doesn't wanna listen.
好吧？
K?
别白费力气了。
Don't try it.
他们就是会杀了你。
They'll just they'll just kill you.
明白吗？
Okay?
你有什么问题吗？
Did you have a question?
是这样的。
Does.
这样你懂了吗？
Does that make sense?
行吧？
K?
所以这并不是要你去理解。
So this is didn't put you to understand.
这一直都是你的选择，只是你更愿意觉得不是这样。
It's always been your choice, But it's easier for you to think, no.
不是。
No.
这不是我的选择。
It's not my choice.
我是被逼的。
I've been coerced.
上学不是我自己的决定。
It's not my choice to come to school.
找工作也不是我自愿的，要是不找工作，我就得饿死。
It's not my choice to, go get a job because I'll if I don't get a job, I'm I'm a starve.
不是。
No.
你不会的。
You won't.
明白吗？
Okay?
记住，在现实世界里，死根本算不了什么。
And remember, in the real world, death doesn't really mean anything.
明白吗？
Okay?
死不过是一种解脱。
Death just means a release.
是你自己骗自己，觉得死是最惨的事。
It's you trick yourself into thinking that death is the worst thing that could happen to you.
可实际上，最惨的是当奴隶。
When in reality, it's slavery that's the worst thing that could happen to you.
你害怕死，可你现在活的其实就是死一般的日子。
You fear death, but you are living death right now.
明白吗？
Okay?
那些伟大的书，讲的就是这个道理。
And that's what the great books will teach you.
是吗？
Yeah?
那现实中疼痛的主观感受又怎么说？
What about the subjective physical feeling of pain in reality?
哦，明白了。
Oh, okay.
对。
Yeah.
好的。
Alright.
对。
Yeah.
所以问题来了，我们为什么会有痛觉，为什么要有身体？
So the question is, why do we feel pain, and why do we have bodies?
原因在于，宇宙的设计就是为了激发想象力。
And the reason why is that the universe is constructed in a way to promote imagination.
明白吗？
Okay?
因为宇宙的本意，就是想让振动更强烈。
Because the universe, what it's trying to do is vibrate more.
振动更强烈，其实就是想让你想象得更多。
Vibrate more, which just means imagine more.
如果你感受不到痛苦，不会受苦，不会失去，也没有邪恶，你就无法想象任何东西。
And if you can't feel pain, if you can't suffer, if you can't lose, if there's no evil, you can't imagine things.
这样说得通吗？
Does that make sense?
对吧？
Right?
如果一切都太轻松，那就什么都没意义了。
If everything was so easy, nothing would ever have any meaning.
行吧？
K?
所以假设你想要一副好身材，去健身房，然后呢，就喝点水，躺上十个小时，就直接练出完美体格——这可能吗？
So let's just say you want a really good body and you go to the gym and then, you know, you just drink some water, you just lie around for, ten hours, and then you you have this amazing physique.
那样的话，对谁都没好处。
Well, that would that would that would just not be beneficial to anyone.
明白吧？
Okay?
如果你想让生活有意义，就得去争取，而争取就免不了痛苦和煎熬。
If you want to have meaning, you have to struggle for it, and that requires pain and suffering.
所以尽管如此。
So even though yeah.
那问题就来了：如果这个世界充满死亡、痛苦和磨难，我们为什么会被安排在这里？
The question then is, like, if if this world is one of death, of one of pain, one of suffering, why are we in this world?
为了提升我们的想象力。
To improve our imagination.
明白吗？
Okay?
只有通过痛苦和磨难，人才能真正发挥出自己的全部潜能。
Because only through pain and suffering can you truly achieve your full potential as a human.
所以那些僧人能在雪地里冥想几十年，因为他们明白，痛苦才能让人集中精神。
That's why these monks meditate for decades in the snow because they understand that pain is what allows you to focus your mind.
明白了。
K.
如果没有邪恶，也就谈不上善良。
Well, evil, there can be no good.
如果人人都善良，那还凭什么称得上善良呢？
If everyone's good, then, like, what's the point of being good?
只有当全世界都堕落时，你还能选择善良，这才是你生命的真正意义。
It's only when everyone is evil and you choose to be good, that's what gives meaning to your life.
这才是你整个宇宙的意义所在。
That's what gives meaning to your universe.
你明白我的意思吗？
Does that make sense?
好吧。
Alright.
还有别的问题吗？
Any more questions?
行。
Okay.
我知道这听起来有点怪，但你真的得读那些经典著作。
And, again, I know this sounds kinda strange, but you actually read the great books.
首先，你会明白它们到底在说什么。
First of all, you will recognize that's what they're saying.
但更重要的是，这些书能给你能量、力量和勇气，只要你真心打开心扉去读它们，就能让自己获得解脱。
But, also, what's more important is they're going to give you the energy, the strength, the power to liberate yourself if you truly open your heart to The Great Books.
明白吗？
Okay?
所以我们先从荷马的《伊利亚特》开始，接着读荷马的《奥德赛》，然后是柏拉图的《理想国》，再读维吉尔的《伊利亚特》——顺便说一句，那本书算不上经典，但咱们还是得读。
So, the great books we will start with is The Iliad by Homer, then we'll go to The Odyssey, again, by Homer, then The Republic, by Plato, The Iliad by Vergil, which is not a great book, by way, but we have to read it anyway.
明白吗？
Okay?
接下来是但丁的《神曲》。
And then The Divine Comedy by Dante.
然后我会根据进展再决定其他要读的书。
And then I'll figure out some other books we can read depending on how things go.
明白吗？
Okay?
我本来想读《纯粹理性批判》，不过可能没时间了。
So I like to read the critic of pure of pure reason, but, we may not have time.
明白吗？
Okay?
这学期的安排大概就是这样。
So that's the plan for the semester.
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