歌词
Don't you see we have something here?
我们与生俱来的东西
Which I will call not philosophy,
我并不把它叫做哲理
except in the most ancient sense
把最原始的好奇之心
of basic curiosity.
除开
Never remember
从来都不记得
Your birthday,
你的生日
or anything you like.
或是你的喜好
Sorry, so helpless,
抱歉 是我没用
so help you,
尽我可能补偿你
anyway you'd like.
你高兴即可
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
The following of them does not depend on believing in anything, in obeying anything, or on doing any specific rituals
他们不依赖于信仰服从或者特定的仪式
(although rituals are included for certain purposes because it is a purely experimental approach to life).
（即使宗教仪式出于生活实验性的目的）
Never remember,
从来都不记得
Your birthday,
你的生日
or anything you like.
或是你的喜好
Sorry, so helpless,
抱歉 是我没用
So help you,
尽我可能补偿你
anyway you'd like.
你高兴即可
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
Take your medicine.
你吃药了吗
This is something like a person who has defective eyesight and is seeing
就像一个患有眼疾的人眼花出现各种幻觉
spots and all sorts of illusions, and goes to an ophthalmologist to correct his vision.
需要去眼科纠正
Buddhism is, therefore, a corrective of psychic vision.
佛教正是纠正错误视觉的眼科专家
It is to be dis-enthralled by the game of Maya.
这不是被什么玛雅人迷惑的把戏
It is not, incidentally, to regard the Maya as something evil,
也不是说玛雅人邪恶
but to regard it as a good thing of which one can have too much, and therefore one gets
意思是把佛教看作我们获得知识的一种好的事物
psychic and spiritual indigestion-from which we all suffer.
它的教义是从我们的遭遇获取精神上的感悟
When I was a small boy I used to haunt that section of London
当我还是个小孩时我经常去大英博物馆附近溜达
around the British Museum, and one day I came across a shop
有一天我途径一个商店
that had a notice over the window which said: "Philosophical Instruments."
它的橱窗上贴着一个告示 上面写着“哲学器具有卖”
Now even as a boy I knew something about philosophy
当时还小但是我也对哲学有些了解
but I could not imagine what philosophical instruments might be.
但我想不通什么是哲学器具
So I went up to the window and there displayed
我走进那间店的橱窗
Were chronometers, slide rules, scales,
窗子里面摆放着精密记时表 计算尺 天平等等
and all kinds of what we would now call scientific instruments.
这些我们可以叫做科学仪器的物品
Because science used to be called natural philosophy.
科学也叫做自然哲学
Because, as Aristotle says,
亚里士多德曾经说过
the beginning of philosophy is wonder.
哲学的开端是迷惑
Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything,
哲学是人类对事物好奇的表现
his attempt to make sense of the world,
以人类有限的智力
primarily through his intellect;
试着去了解这个世界
That is to say his faculty for thinking.
这就是思维能力