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The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies.
宗教還知道我們人類不僅僅有智慧，我們還有軀體
And when they teach us a lesson, they do it via the body.
所以他們通過身體來教會我們道理
So for example, take the Jewish idea of forgiveness.
舉個例子，像是猶太人懂得寬容
Jews are very interested in forgiveness and how we should start anew and start afresh.
他們很喜歡饒恕寬讓，也喜歡重新有個嶄新的生活
They don't just deliver us sermons on this.
他們不僅僅通過傳教來告訴我們
They don't just give us books or words about this.
也不僅僅給我們書本去學習
They tell us to have a bath. So in Orthodox Jewish communities, every Friday you go to a Mikveh.
他們告訴我們去沐浴。在正統的猶太社會里，每個星期五他們都去一個池子
You immerse yourself in the water, and a physical action backs up a philosophical idea.
讓身體浸沒在水里，身體上的動作支撐著哲學思想
We don't tend to do that. Our ideas are in one area and our behavior with our bodies is in another.
而世俗的人們不這么做，我們的身體和智慧在不同的世界里
Religions are fascinating in the way they try and combine the two. Let's look at art now.
而宗教卻把智慧和軀體結合起來，現在看看我們的藝術
Now art is something that in the secular world, we think very highly of. We think art is really, really important.
在世俗的世界里，我們認為藝術是崇高的，我們認為藝術是非常重要的
A lot of our surplus wealth goes to museums, etc.
許多盈余的錢財都花在了藝術館里
We sometimes hear it said that museums are our new cathedrals, or our new churches.
有時候我們聽到有人說博物館是我們新的教堂
You've heard that saying.
你們一定聽過這句話
Now I think that the potential is there, but we've completely let ourselves down.
我覺得博物館是有潛力成為新的教堂，但是我們完全沒有那樣去做
And the reason we've let ourselves down is that we're not properly studying how religions handle art.
我們讓自己失望的原因是我們沒有適當地學習宗教的藝術，是我們沒有適當地學習宗教的藝術
