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“灵性英语”首期素材，选的是萨古鲁2009年在TED上近17分钟的演讲。这个演讲，不管是视频还是中英文字幕，两年前我都在这个公众号上分享过。由于太过经典，所以又被选中。很开心可以跟大家一起来深入习练这一篇。近十七分钟的内容，其实量很多，2500多字，23个段落。很想借助这个演讲，让大家了解萨古鲁从一个古怪少年到酷爱摩托的青年再到开悟瑜伽士的传奇历程，所以任性不作节选，全篇分成6期，每期精讲4段左右的内容。 大家可以先看一下这个演讲视频。两年多前，乐乐递给我一本《午夜心灵密谈》，那是我第一次听说萨古鲁。看完书后，被其深深吸引，但书中形象毕竟平面，看完这个视频后，才是真正被点燃。
只不过这个视频的中文字幕，有几处小问题。到时候我们会在讲解音频中一一提到（详细的文本讲解音频同样会分享在群里）。 正式习练内容第一期文本： On a certain day, two cows were grazing on the English meadow. English cows. One cow asked the other, ‘what is your opinion about the mad-cow disease?’ The other cow said, ‘I don’t care a hoot. I am anyway a helicopter.” Being a mystic, being a realized being, is just like this: a cow realizing that it’s a cow, and it becomes a celebrated cow. Holy cow, isn’t it? Is it that simplistic? So let me tell you my story. So as a child, one thing that I realized was, that I was utterly, absolutely ignorant. And everybody around me seemed to know just about everything. I did not know anything at all. So because I did not know anything, I had to pay enormous attention towards everything. My sense of attention become, became like this: if I see a leaf, I could just sit there looking at this leaf just staring at it for hours. If I sat up in my bed, just staring at the darkness, I could just do this for the whole night. So this attention brought a completely different level of involvement and interaction with just about anything and everything around me, animate and inanimate. But everybody else seemed to know everything and they were just going about their life busy and happy. But I was just staring at every little thing. Then I saw that, I realized that even they did not know anything, it is just they had their assumptions and belief systems that they were happy with. Either their own or what was handed down to them by someone else. And they not only knew about what is here, they also knew about other worlds, about Gods, about heavens and everything. And here I was struggling to figure out what is what.
日常高频词 graze : [ɡreiz] vi 吃草; vt 放牧
meadow：[‘med?u] n 草地；牧场
disease：[di’zi:z] n 疾病
helicopter：[‘helik?pt?] n.直升机
involvement：[in’v?lvm?nt] n. 投入
interaction：[,int?r’?k??n] n. 互动
celebrated：[‘selibreitid] adj. 著名的
simplistic：[sim’plistik] adj. 太过于简单的
struggle：vi 努力；使劲
灵性高频词 mystic：[‘mistik] n. 隐修士；神秘家
a realized being：n. 觉悟的人；开悟的人
being: n. 存在；生命；人
ignorant: /??ɡn?r?nt/ adj. 无知的
animate：[‘?nimeit] adj. 有生命的
inanimate: [in’?nim?t] adj. 无生命的
assumption: [?’s?mp??n] n. 假设
belief system：n.信念系统
日常表达与句型 Holy cow! 天哪！哇塞，不会吧！表达不可思议的感叹。 What’s your opinion about…… 你对… 有什么看法？ I don’t care a hoot. 我一点也不在乎／关我屁事 Either…or : 不是…就是…; 要么…要么…
常用动词词组 1. go about : 从事；处理；忙活 （后面跟名词或动名词短语） They were just going about their life busy and happy. 2. hand down: 传递下来；流传下来 3. figure out : 搞清楚；弄明白；理解
习练建议 1、把高频单词，大声读五遍，纸上写十遍，遮住中文猜意思。 2、一字不落的精读（最好把文本手抄到一个大开本的笔记本上），搞懂每句话的准确意思，搞懂整段话的准确意思。（提醒：查阅语法书，查阅网上资料，到群里提问。） 3、听朗读音频三遍，然后自己把这四段话大声朗读十遍，碰到读不顺的句子就反复朗读至顺畅再往下读。最后一遍录音，自己听音纠正。有余力者尝试背诵全部，或其中一段。 4、造句练习。选句型或词组进行替换练习或造句。把自造的句子分享到群里。 5、加入“灵性英语习练群”，提问交流，发布朗读录音，互相激发促进。
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