Pico Iyer: The art of stillness
بيكو لاير: فن السكون
Pico Iyer has spent more than 30 years tracking movement and stillness -- and the way criss-crossing cultures have changed the world, our imagination and all our relationships. Full bio
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that it would be cheaper
في بريطانيا
from my parents' house in California.
من منزل والدي في كاليفورنيا.
the more I came to love to fly,
كلما أحببت الطيران أكثر،
from high school,
لتخرجي من الثانوية،
every season of my 18th year
من سنتي الثامنة عشرة
I became a travel writer
that if you were lucky enough
the candlelit temples of Tibet
المضاءة بالشموع،
and the high cobalt skies
وتلك السماوات الفضية العالية
when you travel
unless you can bring the right eyes to it.
إلا إذا رأيته رؤية صحيحة.
and more appreciative eyes
is how many of us get
in our accelerated lives, a break.
المتسارعة، ألا وهو العطلة.
the slideshow of my experience
من خلال شريط أحداث تجربتي
as going to Tibet or to Cuba.
لو ذهبت إلى التيبت أو كوبا.
I mean nothing more intimidating
أقصد ما من شيء محرج
through the centuries
خلال القرون الماضية.
the Stoics were reminding us
that makes our lives,
sweeps through your town
almost feels liberated,
قد يشعر أنه تحرر،
to start his life anew.
ليبدأ الحياة من جديد.
as Shakespeare told us in "Hamlet,"
كما قال شيكسبير في "هامليت"،
my experience as a traveler.
the most mind-bending trip
رحلاتي إثارة للدهشة
going back to it in my head,
أنني عدت إلى هناك بذاكرتي،
finding a place for it in my thinking,
وأن أجد مكانا لها في تفكيري،
gave me some amazing sights,
into lasting insights.
that so much of our life
or interpretation or speculation,
أو التخمين،
were telling us this centuries ago,
بهذا منذ قرون خلت،
200 emails in a day.
على200 رسالة إلكترونية يوميا.
were not on Facebook.
على الفايسبوك.
ذات المتطلبات الكثيرة،
our parents can get to us.
غير المرغوب فيه أن يصلوا إلينا.
that in recent years
الأمريكيين في السنوات الأخيرة
than 50 years ago,
عليه الأمر منذ 50 سنة،
less and less time.
يبدو أن الوقت يقل أكثر.
make contact with people
as a traveler
that often it's exactly the people
of the limits of old,
about the need for limits,
بضرورة وجود حدود،
many of you have heard about;
والمنصات البهلوانية،
of their paid time free
ب20 في المئة من وقت عملهم بالمجان
their imaginations go wandering.
for my digital I.D.,
about the program
to teach the many, many Googlers
to become trainers in it,
ليصبحوا مدربين لها،
about the book that he was about to write
الذي كان بصدد كتابته
has empirically shown
health or to clearer thinking,
لصحة أفضل، أو لتفكير أوضح،
of the most eloquent spokesmen
of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly.
وايرد ماغازين، إنه كيفين كيلي.
on fresh technologies
عن التكنولوجيا الحديثة
or a laptop or a TV in his home.
أو حاسوب أو تلفاز في البيت.
في السيليكون فالي،
when they go online again.
يعودون إلى الانترنت مجددا.
that technology hasn't always given us
إيانا التكنولوجيا ربما
the wisest use of technology.
for which the adjective "holy" is used,
استعملت كلمة "مقدس" لوصفها
of the Torah --
لليهود وهو التوراة
one of our greatest luxuries,
it's the pause or the rest
إنها الوقفات أو الاستراحات
its beauty and its shape.
a lot of empty space on the page
من الفراغات في صفحاتي
my thoughts and sentences
has room to breathe.
of course, many people,
فسيحاول العديد من الناس
a second home.
that any time I want,
if not in space,
عبر الزمن، إن لم يكن في المكان،
لأنني كلما فعلت فأنني أقضي معظم الوقت
whenever I do I spend much of it
the following day.
meat or sex or wine
عن اللحم أو الجنس أو الخمر
three days off on retreat
على 3 أيام كعطلة
to be leaving my poor wife behind
سأترك زوجتي المسكينة وحيدة
all those seemingly urgent emails
التي تبدو وكأنها مهمة
a friend's birthday party.
to a place of real quiet,
or creative or joyful to share
ومبدعة ومبهجة لأتقاسمها
my exhaustion or my distractedness,
from the office,
driving through Times Square,
في طريقها عبر تايمز سكوير؛
that I was racing around so much
في كل اتجاه بكثرة
I might have dreamed of as a little boy.
عندما كنت طفلا صغيرا.
and colleagues,
on Park Avenue and 20th Street.
جادة بارك والشارع 20.
writing about world affairs,
في الكتابة حول الشؤون الدولية،
enough from them
الانفصال عنها بما يكفي
if I was truly happy.
of Kyoto, Japan,
في كيوطو في اليابان،
that had long exerted a strong,
of Kyoto and feel I recognized it;
and shrines,
for 800 years or more.
طوال 800 سنة أو يزيد.
I ended up where I still am
انتهى بي المطاف حيث أنا الآن
in the middle of nowhere
for job advancement
من أجل إحراز تقدم في العمل
what I prize most,
ما أصبو إليه أكثر
a cell phone there.
الهاتف النقال هناك.
one of its nasty surprises,
in front of mine on the freeway,
فجأة في الطريق السيار،
going nowhere
أن أذهب إلى أي مكان
racing around to Bhutan or Easter Island.
حول بوتان أو جزيرة إيستر.
of the world.
in Frankfurt, Germany,
came down and sat next to me
in a very friendly conversation
she didn't even go to sleep,
really imparted itself to me.
من وضوحها وسكونها إلي.
taking conscious measures these days
يأخذون تدابير واعية هذه الأيام
inside their lives.
إلى منتجعات " الثقب الأسود"
of dollars a night
their cell phone and their laptop
just before they go to sleep,
their messages
and listen to some music,
behind Los Angeles,
والمظلمة خلف لوس أنجلوس،
as a full-time monk
at the age of 77,
unsexy title of "Old Ideas,"
غير المثير "أفكار قديمة"،
in 17 nations in the world,
that we get from people like that.
عليها من أناس كهؤلاء.
and trouble to sit still.
والمشاكل ليبقوا ساكنين.
of us have the sensation,
لديه هذا الإحساس، أنا متأكد
from a huge screen,
and then further back,
وأخرى إلى الأمام،
what the canvas means
by going nowhere.
من خلال البقاء في أماكنهم.
than going slow.
as paying attention.
alive and full of fresh hope,
إلى الديار مفعما بالحياة وبالأمل،
to try considering going nowhere.
أن تفكر في البقاء في مكانك.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Pico Iyer - Global authorPico Iyer has spent more than 30 years tracking movement and stillness -- and the way criss-crossing cultures have changed the world, our imagination and all our relationships.
Why you should listen
In twelve books, covering everything from Revolutionary Cuba to the XIVth Dalai Lama, Islamic mysticism to our lives in airports, Pico Iyer has worked to chronicle the accelerating changes in our outer world, which sometimes make steadiness and rootedness in our inner world more urgent than ever. In his TED Book, The Art of Stillness, he draws upon travels from North Korea to Iran to remind us how to remain focused and sane in an age of frenzied distraction. As he writes in the book, "Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds ... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world."
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