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Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information.
宗教里的傳教想改變你的生活，而一個(gè)演講只是給你一些信息資料
And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition.
我覺得我們有必要找回傳教的習(xí)俗
The tradition of sermonizing is hugely valuable,
這個(gè)習(xí)俗是非常有用的
because we are in need of guidance, morality and consolation -- and religions know that.
因?yàn)槲覀兌夹枰敢?，道德，和慰藉，而宗教都知道如何幫助我?/div>
Another point about education:
關(guān)于教育，還有一點(diǎn)
we tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it.
在非宗教世界里，我們開始相信，我們告訴別人某件事情一遍，他們就可以完全記住
Sit them in a classroom, tell them about Plato at the age of 20,
讓他們坐在教室里，在20歲時(shí)教他們柏拉圖的哲學(xué)
send them out for a career in management consultancy for 40 years, and that lesson will stick with them.
然后讓他們?nèi)ギ?dāng)管理顧問當(dāng)40年，而他們也不會忘記柏拉圖的哲學(xué)
Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day.
而宗教會說:"胡說，那道理必須一天重復(fù)10次才可以
So get on your knees and repeat it."
所以現(xiàn)在你就跪下好好復(fù)習(xí)"
That's what all religions tell us: "Get on you knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day."
這是宗教告訴我們的道理，"跪下然后每天復(fù)習(xí)10遍 20遍 15遍"
Otherwise our minds are like sieves.
不然我們很快就會忘記
So religions are cultures of repetition.
所以宗教培養(yǎng)我們重復(fù)、溫習(xí)的美德
They circle the great truths again and again and again.
宗教重復(fù)偉大的真理一遍又一遍
We associate repetition with boredom.
我們會覺得重復(fù)就是無聊
"Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old."
我們一直說:"說點(diǎn)新鮮的。新的總是比舊的好"
If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED.
如果我對你說 "好吧 TED視頻都不會更新了"
We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five times because they're so true.
"我們就看那些舊的視頻。每天看五次，因?yàn)槟切┮曨l是在是太棒了"
We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated.
"我們每天看伊莉莎白·吉爾伯托五次，因?yàn)樗南敕▽?shí)在太聰明了" 你會覺得你被騙了
Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.
但如果你信仰宗教，你就不會這樣想
The other things that religions do is to arrange time.
宗教還會幫助你安排時(shí)間
All the major religions give us calendars. What is a calendar?
所有主流宗教都會有特定的日歷。什么是日歷?
A calendar is a way of making sure that across the year you will bump into certain very important ideas.
日歷確保你在整一年里你會遭遇一些的重大想法
In the Catholic chronology, Catholic calendar,
在天主教日歷中
at the end of March you will think about St. Jerome and his qualities of humility and goodness and his generosity to the poor.
在三月月底你會想到圣杰羅姆，想到他的謙卑和善良和他對窮人的慷慨
You won't do that by accident; you will do that because you are guided to do that.
你不會碰巧想到他，你想到他因?yàn)槟惚灰龑?dǎo)了
Now we don't think that way.
現(xiàn)在我們不這樣想
