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A medium for learning of the deepest sort." Silence is something that is missing from our culture. I know that many of you have probably read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
是一種最深層次的學習媒介 而安靜恰恰是我們文化所缺失的 很多人可能讀過《萬里任禪游》
Robert M. Pirsig. He had a second book out, less well-known, called Lila (Lila: an Inquiry into Morals).
作者Robert M Pirsig 還寫過另一本書 沒那么知名 叫《尋找萊拉》
And Lila is an anthropological study of Native Americans. What he does there is compare their culture to Americans' from European ancestry. And one of the distinguishing characteristics between these two cultures
這本書是對印第安人的人類學研究 將他們的文化與美國傳承的歐洲文化進行對比 兩種文化最突出的特點之一是
Is their approach were silence. What he found was when he went and sat around with Native Americans. They would sit around the fire and hang out for two,
印第安人崇尚安靜 他發現和印第安人坐在一起 他們圍坐在篝火邊兩三個小時
Three hours without saying a word. Just sit around. Look at one another.
一句話也沒說 只是坐在那兒 看著對方
Smile. Have a good time. Introspect. Just be there for hours.
微笑 享受美好時光 內省 就這樣幾個小時
While he points out that in our culture we feel very uncomfortable with the absence of words, with the absence of sound or noise. We have to fill up all the gaps.
他指出 在我們文化中沉默 讓人不適 我們試圖打破沉默
This is an important cultural difference. And we pay a price for this lack of stillness. A price that we'll talk about a lot,
這是一項重要的文化差異 我們為缺乏安靜付出了代價 我們會重點討論這一代價
When I talk about relationships, when I talk about virtue and morality and when we talk about happiness and wellbeing in general.
涉及到戀愛 美德與道德 以及快樂與幸福感
Let me give a little bit background on positive psychology: how we came about and how this class came about. In many ways, positive psychology is the brainchild,
下面介紹一下積極心理學的背景 它是如何誕生的 這門課是如何誕生的 從很多方面來說 積極心理學是
The product and the grandchild of humanistic psychology. What we have in humanistic psychology is essentially a reaction to the existing psychologies of the time.
人本主義心理學的產物和衍生 人本主義心理學本質上是 對當時各種心理學派系的不同意見
