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
Anglijoje atsieis pigiau,
Kalifornijoje
from my parents' house in California.
į mokyklą.
the more I came to love to fly,
from high school,
gavau staliukų valytojo darbą,
every season of my 18th year
sutikčiau vis kitam žemyne.
tapo mano profesija,
I became a travel writer
that if you were lucky enough
kad jei jau tau nuskilo
Tibeto šventyklose
the candlelit temples of Tibet
apgaubtose muzika,
dangaus mėlynumą
and the high cobalt skies
when you travel
unless you can bring the right eyes to it.
and more appreciative eyes
žvilgsnį yra ne keliauti,
ko labiausiai trūksta ir reikia
is how many of us get
in our accelerated lives, a break.
the slideshow of my experience
as going to Tibet or to Cuba.
I mean nothing more intimidating
kas tris mėnesius,
kas tave labiausiai jaudina,
through the centuries
amžiais kartoja
du tūkstantmečius
the Stoics were reminding us
kad gyvenimą sudaro ne patirtis,
that makes our lives,
sweeps through your town
nusiaubia uraganas,
visam gyvenimui,
jaučiasi išsilaisvinęs
almost feels liberated,
to start his life anew.
pradėti gyvenimą iš naujo.
as Shakespeare told us in "Hamlet,"
kad gėrio ir blogio nėra;
paverčia gerais ir blogais.
my experience as a traveler.
keliautojo, patirtis.
the most mind-bending trip
keičiančią kelionę per Šiaurės Korėją.
vis prie jos grįžtant,
going back to it in my head,
finding a place for it in my thinking,
trunka jau dvidešimt ketverius metus
gave me some amazing sights,
into lasting insights.
mūsų gyvenimo telpa galvoje,
that so much of our life
or interpretation or speculation,
Šekspyras ir stoikai
were telling us this centuries ago,
200 emails in a day.
su 200 el. laiškų per dieną.
Stoikai, kiek žinau,
were not on Facebook.
kuriam viskas prieinama
our parents can get to us.
el. šiukšlintojai ir tėvai.
that in recent years
than 50 years ago,
dirba mažiau nei prieš 50 metų,
laiką taupančių prietaisų,
less and less time.
make contact with people
planetos kampeliuose,
as a traveler
that often it's exactly the people
kad dažnai būtent tie žmonės,
of the limits of old,
about the need for limits,
many of you have heard about;
apie kuriuos esat girdėję:
batutai,
of their paid time free
their imaginations go wandering.
for my digital I.D.,
vizituotojo kortelės,
about the program
to teach the many, many Googlers
praktikuojančių jogą,
to become trainers in it,
about the book that he was about to write
kurią nori parašyti.
has empirically shown
health or to clearer thinking,
sveikatos ir aiškesnio mąstymo,
of the most eloquent spokesmen
technologijų atstovų
of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly.
on fresh technologies
naujausias technologijas
or a laptop or a TV in his home.
ir be televizoriaus.
when they go online again.
internetinę kasdienybę.
that technology hasn't always given us
mūsų neišmokė,
the wisest use of technology.
for which the adjective "holy" is used,
tik vieną kartą –
of the Torah --
one of our greatest luxuries,
it's the pause or the rest
savo grožį ir formą
its beauty and its shape.
a lot of empty space on the page
daug tuštumos tam,
my thoughts and sentences
mano sakinius ir mintis
has room to breathe.
of course, many people,
a second home.
that any time I want,
if not in space,
antrus namus jei ne erdvėje,
whenever I do I spend much of it
the following day.
meat or sex or wine
mėsos, sekso arba vyno,
three days off on retreat
keletui dienui atsitraukti į vienumą.
to be leaving my poor wife behind
paliekąs žmoną vieną
all those seemingly urgent emails
viršininko laiškus
a friend's birthday party.
to a place of real quiet,
or creative or joyful to share
kūrybišku ir džiugiu –
my exhaustion or my distractedness,
from the office,
driving through Times Square,
per Times aikštę.
that I was racing around so much
I might have dreamed of as a little boy.
and colleagues,
on Park Avenue and 20th Street.
ir 20-tosios,
writing about world affairs,
rašiau apie pasaulio įvykius.
enough from them
ar suprasčiau,
if I was truly happy.
neatsiribojau.
of Kyoto, Japan,
that had long exerted a strong,
of Kyoto and feel I recognized it;
ir atrodydavo, kad atpažįstu tą vietą –
and shrines,
for 800 years or more.
praktikuoja ramų sėdėjimą.
I ended up where I still am
dviejų miegamųjų bute
in the middle of nowhere
dirbdamas žurnalistu.
for job advancement
čia nekvepia,
what I prize most,
kas brangiausia –
a cell phone there.
one of its nasty surprises,
in front of mine on the freeway,
going nowhere
racing around to Bhutan or Easter Island.
lakstant po Butaną ar Velykų salą.
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.
taking conscious measures these days
žmonių sąmoningai imasi priemonių,
inside their lives.
skylės kurortus,
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,
už Los Andželo,
atlikėjas
as a full-time monk
at the age of 77,
specialiai pavadintas gana lėkštai
unsexy title of "Old Ideas,"
in 17 nations in the world,
septyniolikoje valstybių,
pirmam penketuke.
intymumo ir gelmės,
that we get from people like that.
and trouble to sit still.
skiria pastangas ramiam pasėdėjimui.
of us have the sensation,
from a huge screen,
milžiniško ekrano.
and then further back,
what the canvas means
by going nowhere.
niekur neidami.
than going slow.
as paying attention.
dėmesio sutelkimas.
Naująjį Orleaną;
alive and full of fresh hope,
ir kupini naujos vilties,
to try considering going nowhere.
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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