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Once I identified this question, it was all over the place.
一旦你意識到這個問題，就發現它無所不在。
I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there.
在哪里都能看到它的痕跡。同時我也知道，它們一直都在那里。
And then writing, that's what happens.
在寫作上就會有這些問題。
I get these hints, these clues, and I realize that they've been obvious, and yet they have not been.
我看見這些暗示，這些線索，我意識到它們一直都在那，但又隱身不見。
And what I need, in effect, is a focus. And when I have the question, it is a focus.
我需要的是焦點，當我有一個問題要問的時候，它就是一個焦點。
And all these things that seem to be flotsam and jetsam in life actually go through that question,
那些在人生中的災難都會過去，這些問題
and what happens is those particular things become relevant.
和在這些事件中所發生的事都是有關聯的，
And it seems like it's happening all the time.
而且它無處不在。
You think there's a sort of coincidence going on, a serendipity, in which you're getting all this help from the universe.
你以為它不過是偶發事件，或是碰巧發生的，或許是來自宇宙的幫忙。
And it may also be explained that now you have a focus. And you are noticing it more often.
也可以解釋成，心中有了焦點以后，你更能發現它的存在。
But you apply this. You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions.
當你開始應用它，你開始檢視那些令你緊張的事情。
Your brother, who's fallen in trouble, do you take care of him? Why or why not?
當你的兄弟遇上了麻煩，你該幫助他嗎？為什么要，又為什么不要？
It may be something that is perhaps more serious -- as I said, human rights in Burma.
它或許比你想象的更為嚴肅，像緬甸的人權問題。
I was thinking that I shouldn't go because somebody said, if I did, it would show that I approved of the military regime there.
我本來想著我是否不應該去，因為有人告訴我，我在那里出現意味著我支持當地的軍權統治。
And then, after a while, I had to ask myself,
但一陣子以后，我自問
"Why do we take on knowledge, why do we take on assumptions that other people have given us?"
“為什么我們要在意他人對我們的想法或認知？”
And it was the same thing that I felt when I was growing up,
這和我在成長過程中的感覺很像，
and was hearing these rules of moral conduct from my father, who was a Baptist minister.
我身為牧師的父親給了我們所有規則和道德指標。
So I decided that I would go to Burma for my own intentions, and still didn't know that if I went there,
最后我決定為了我自己去緬甸，而我仍然不知道，到了那里
what the result of that would be, if I wrote a book -- and I just would have to face that later, when the time came.
寫一本書結果又會如何，但我只能等到時機出現的時候，再來面對這些問題。
