Pico Iyer: The art of stillness
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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
hogy olcsóbb volna
Angliában,
from my parents' house in California.
Californiában, ahol laktunk.
hogy iskolába járjak.
the more I came to love to fly,
annál jobban megszerettem.
from high school,
every season of my 18th year
I became a travel writer
hogy az utazásról kezdtem el írni,
that if you were lucky enough
vagyok, hogy eljuthattam
the candlelit temples of Tibet
and the high cobalt skies
a dallamot, az ég magasát,
a saját életembe is.
when you travel
ráébred az ember,
unless you can bring the right eyes to it.
megfogni, ha nem vagy nyitott rá.
a Himalájába,
and more appreciative eyes
csak csendben ülök.
is how many of us get
ami sokunk számára
in our accelerated lives, a break.
a legjobban szükségünk van: a pihenést.
the slideshow of my experience
a tapasztalataim katalógusát,
as going to Tibet or to Cuba.
mint elmenni Tibetbe vagy Kubába.
I mean nothing more intimidating
through the centuries
bölcs ember
the Stoics were reminding us
a sztoikusok vallották,
that makes our lives,
formálják az életünket,
sweeps through your town
traumaként éli meg.
almost feels liberated,
szinte felszabadul,
to start his life anew.
az újrakezdéshez.
különböző válasz.
as Shakespeare told us in "Hamlet,"
ahogy Shakespeare mondta a Hamletben,
my experience as a traveler.
the most mind-bending trip
utazásban volt részem
going back to it in my head,
újraélem a fejemben,
finding a place for it in my thinking,
helyet találni neki a gondolataimban
gave me some amazing sights,
mindent láttam,
into lasting insights.
that so much of our life
az életünk milyen nagy része
or interpretation or speculation,
értelmezések, spekulációk...
változtatni az életem,
were telling us this centuries ago,
már gondolkodtak ezen,
200 emails in a day.
napi 200 emailt elolvasnia.
were not on Facebook.
voltak fent Facebookon.
our parents can get to us.
a szüleink mindig elérnek.
that in recent years
hogy az utóbbi években
than 50 years ago,
mint ötven éve,
less and less time.
make contact with people
as a traveler
legnagyobb meglepetés az volt,
that often it's exactly the people
hogy eljussunk valahova,
of the limits of old,
about the need for limits,
a határokkal kapcsolatban,
many of you have heard about;
olyan sokat hallottatok:
of their paid time free
their imaginations go wandering.
for my digital I.D.,
about the program
to teach the many, many Googlers
to become trainers in it,
about the book that he was about to write
has empirically shown
tapasztalati bizonyíték
health or to clearer thinking,
tisztább gondolkodást eredményez,
is fejleszti.
Szilícium-völgyben,
of the most eloquent spokesmen
of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly.
Kevin Kelly.
on fresh technologies
mely a technológiai vívmányokról szól,
or a laptop or a TV in his home.
when they go online again.
legközelebb online lesznek.
that technology hasn't always given us
amit nem mindig adott meg
the wisest use of technology.
hogy hogyan is éljünk vele.
for which the adjective "holy" is used,
of the Torah --
a Tórát--
one of our greatest luxuries,
legnagyobb kincs
it's the pause or the rest
a csend az,
its beauty and its shape.
a lot of empty space on the page
egy oldalon,
my thoughts and sentences
a gondolataimat, mondataimat,
has room to breathe.
a képzelete.
of course, many people,
sokan törekednek arra,
a second home.
telkük vidéken.
that any time I want,
hogy bármikor
if not in space,
de időben
whenever I do I spend much of it
mindig aggódom
the following day.
meat or sex or wine
a szexet, vagy a borivást,
three days off on retreat
elmenni egy kolostorba,
to be leaving my poor wife behind
hogy otthon hagyom szegény feleségemet,
all those seemingly urgent emails
a fontosnak tűnő emailekkel
a friend's birthday party.
a szülinapi partijáról.
to a place of real quiet,
csendes helyre,
or creative or joyful to share
my exhaustion or my distractedness,
figyelmetlenségemet,
from the office,
driving through Times Square,
a Times Square-nél járt a taxi,
that I was racing around so much
I might have dreamed of as a little boy.
gyerekkoromban álmodhattam.
and colleagues,
on Park Avenue and 20th Street.
és a 20. utca sarkán.
writing about world affairs,
nemzetközi ügyekről írtam,
enough from them
if I was truly happy.
boldog vagyok-e.
of Kyoto, Japan,
Kyoto külső kerületében.
that had long exerted a strong,
éreztem hozzá.
of Kyoto and feel I recognized it;
rögtön felismertem,
még mielőtt ott jártam volna.
and shrines,
for 800 years or more.
I ended up where I still am
kikötöttem ott, ahol most is vagyok
in the middle of nowhere
for job advancement
a szakmai előrelépéshez,
what I prize most,
amit a legtöbbre becsülök:
a cell phone there.
mobiltelefont használnom itt.
one of its nasty surprises,
egy-két kellemetlen meglepetést,
in front of mine on the freeway,
az autópályán,
going nowhere
racing around to Bhutan or Easter Island.
vagy a Húsvét-szigetekre.
of the world.
in Frankfurt, Germany,
came down and sat next to me
in a very friendly conversation
barátságosan társalogtunk
she didn't even go to sleep,
még csak nem is aludt,
really imparted itself to me.
nagyon megérintett.
taking conscious measures these days
akik próbálnak tudatosan
inside their lives.
központokba járnak,
of dollars a night
their cell phone and their laptop
just before they go to sleep,
akik elalvás előtt,
their messages
and listen to some music,
behind Los Angeles,
sötét hegyekben autózni,
as a full-time monk
at the age of 77,
unsexy title of "Old Ideas,"
"Régi gondolatok" címet adta,
in 17 nations in the world,
that we get from people like that.
amit az olyan emberektől kapunk,
and trouble to sit still.
of us have the sensation,
from a huge screen,
and then further back,
majd még egyet,
what the canvas means
ami kirajzolódik a vásznon,
by going nowhere.
hogy nem mennek sehova.
than going slow.
mint a lassítás.
as paying attention.
mész legközelebb nyaralni.
alive and full of fresh hope,
szeretnél hazatérni,
to try considering going nowhere.
hogy nem mész sehova.
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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