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I want to address the issue of compassion.
我想探討慈悲心這個(gè)話(huà)題。
Compassion has many faces.
慈悲心有很多形態(tài)。
Some of them are fierce; some of them are wrathful;
有些是激烈的；有些是忿怒的；
some of them are tender; some of them are wise.
有些是溫和的, 有些是智慧的。
A line that the Dalai Lama once said,
達(dá)賴(lài)?yán)镌f(shuō)過(guò)，
he said, Love and compassion are necessities.
他說(shuō)：愛(ài)與慈悲是必需品。
They are not luxuries.
它們不是奢侈品。
Without them,
沒(méi)有它們，
humanity cannot survive.
人性無(wú)法留存。
And I would suggest,
我想說(shuō)的是，
it is not only humanity that won't survive,
不僅人性難以保全，
but it is all species on the planet,
我們今天所知道的，
as we've heard today.
地球上所有的物種都是。
It is the big cats,
不論是大型貓科動(dòng)物，
and it's the plankton.
還是浮游生物。
Two weeks ago, I was in Bangalore in India.
兩周前，我在印度的班加羅爾。
I was so privileged to be able to teach in a hospice on the outskirts of Bangalore.
我很榮幸的在班加羅爾的郊區(qū)一個(gè)安養(yǎng)院教授臨終關(guān)懷。
And early in the morning,
每天很早，
I went into the ward.
我就去病房。
In that hospice,
在那家安養(yǎng)院，
there were 31 men and women who were actively dying.
有31個(gè)人處在瀕死狀態(tài)。
And I walked up to the bedside of an old woman who was breathing very rapidly, fragile,
我走到一個(gè)老年婦女的床前，她的呼吸非常急促而微弱，
obviously in the latter phase of active dying.
很明顯她處于瀕死的末期。
I looked into her face.
我看著她的臉。
I looked into the face of her son sitting next to her,
看著坐在她旁邊她兒子的臉，
and his face was just riven with grief and confusion.
他的臉溢滿(mǎn)了悲傷和困惑。
And I remembered a line from the Mahabharata,
我記得摩訶婆羅多，
the great Indian epic:
偉大的印度史詩(shī)里有這么一段話(huà)：
What is the most wondrous thing in the world, Yudhisthira?
尤帝士提爾，什么是這世上最美妙的事情？
