Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
بيكو ايير: روعة الذي لن نعلمه
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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a group of rough men
جماعة من الرجال المشردين
(عربة هندية)
for a bar of chocolate at home.
أدفعه مقابل لوح من الشكلاطة في المنزل
between palaces and pagodas.
القصور والمعابد البوذية
he had come to the city from his village.
مغادرته لقريته ومجيئه إلى المدينة
under a military dictatorship,
ظل نظام دكتاتوري عسكري
he could make a living.
العربة هي مصدر رزقه الوحيد
he actually slept in his trishaw
أنه كان ينام في عربته
off the all-night train.
المترجلين من القطار الليلي
that in certain ways,
أنه، وبطرق معينة
by foreign cultures --
بالثقافات الأجنبية
crowded streets,
down rough, wild alleyways.
في أزقة وعرة قاسية
could happen to me now.
إلى داخل كوخ ما
he had ever received
تلقاها في حياته،
لمن السهل - وبشكل خطير -
every moment that you're not,
أنك لا تملك زمام الأمور
of things, either.
as we are unsettled
we've been lucky enough
محظوظين كفايةً
new ideas and discoveries
والاكتشافات
pushed excitingly forwards.
وبطريقة حماسية
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
مضطرب، أو غير قادر على التعرف على نفسك -
who showed me the laws of physics
علموني قواعد الفيزياء
three times three makes nine.
minus three makes nine,
that almost feels like trust.
أنه يستند على الثقة
isn't always ignorance.
الجهل دائماً
it's the things I don't know
التي لا أعرفها
and pushed me forwards
وأعظتني دفعة إلى الأمام
to everybody around me.
أقرب إلى كل من حولي
على مر 8 سنوات
with the Dalai Lama.
أرجاء اليابان، بصحبة الداي لاما
reassurance and confidence
الناس الطمأنينة والثقة
going to get world peace?"
economist Daniel Kahneman
جائزة نوبل - دانييل كاهىيمان -
researching human behavior,
في دراسة سلوك الإنسان
of what we think we know
الأشياء التي نظن أننا نعرفها
نكون عليها
to ignore our ignorance."
is going to win this weekend,
في عطلة نهاية الاسبوع هذه
is going to do tomorrow?
حبيبك غداً؟
as some people call them,
were eating from the tree of life.
كانوا يأكلون من شجرة الحياة
بأخذ بعض القضمات
of good and evil,
(شجرة الخير والشر)
a little too late, perhaps,
that we need to know,
علينا فعلاً أن نعلمها
that are better left unexplored.
التي من الأفضل ألا نستكشفها
in classrooms collecting facts,
في الصفوف أجمّع الحقائق
in the information business,
المعلومات التجارية
for two-and-a-half weeks,
لمدة أسبوعين ونصف
about Japan's temples,
المعابد الموجودة في اليونان
الموجودة بها
I couldn't explain to you yet,
لا أستطيع شرحها لكم بعد
اليابان والعيش فيها
very much at all
I'm making some new discovery,
في كل يوم
and seeing the hundred thousand things
من الأشياء
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
من الجهل
is flooding into our little apartment,
أشعة الشمس إلى شقتنا الصغيرة
the weather forecast,
على أحوال الطقس
writer now for 34 years.
ككاتب بدوام كامل
when I'm not in charge,
لا أكون أنا من يمسك بزمام الأمور
than everything around me.
أكبر من كل شيء حولي
"العربة الهندية" مجدداً
well-lit streets;
مُضاءة جيداً
of the first law of travel
as your readiness to surrender.
تكون جاهزاً للتسليم والتخلي
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."
Pico Iyer | Speaker | TED.com