高级听力 Unit 16 Part 1

本文是切罗基牧师，在某个地方的演讲。关乎其民族的一些信仰。

某段音频讲课之后，说了25分钟的个人观点。我犹豫了很久，是否将其上传，仔细斟酌之后，还是觉得上传。

Jingyi 工作第二年的时候，就有机会和中层干部打交道（其实工作第一年就有这机会，但这些都不是工作业绩和能力的一种体现，关于这点，我找个时候展开讲），希望给到听众某种思考问题的角度，工作顺利的时候可以声音加强，工作不顺利之时，可以积极对待。。

The Great Life

I’m David Winston, a Cherokee medicine priest. I’d like to say something about the Cherokee beliefs regarding the environment and conservation. Basically, Cherokee tradition tells us that we are part of nature and we depend on nature for our life, so we don’t compete with it and we’re not trying to tame it, we’re trying to live with it. It’s different from our contemporary view, that nature exists for the benefit of people. We believe that we're a part of what we call the Great Life, and as part of the Great Life we are as important as everything else, but certainly no more important than anything else. And we feel that within the Great Life, there are what we call the Laws of Nature. We believe that there are many laws of nature, but there are three great Laws of Nature, and those are the laws that tell us how we have to live in harmony with everything else.

The First Law of Nature is that you don't take any life without real reason. And a real reason would be for food, for medicine, for protection. Those would be the reasons for taking life. But basically, life is sacred. So we shouldn't kill needlessly. That would absolutely include plants. We believe everything is alive. In fact, we believe stones are alive, trees are alive, plants are alive, animals are obviously alive. And so to us, taking the life of a plant is just as grave a responsibility as taking the life of an animal. And all of those things should be done in sacred way and in a good way. So for instance, when you go to gather a plant, you don’t want to go and say, “Wow, here’s a whole patch of plants,” and go and gather them all. You gather a few, and then you gather a few from another spot, leaving the majority of the plants so that they can grow and continue to provide not only for themselves, but for us, and for our children, and for their children.

The Second Law is that everything we do serve the Great Life. Well, what we mean is that we believe that there’s one spirit that fills all things, humans, plants, rocks, whatever. And the sum of all of that and more is what we call the Great Life. And so we all are part of this same Great Life. And everything we do affects the Great Life, and everything that happens within the Great Life affects us. So it’s very, very important that within the Second Law of Nature, that what we do will not harm other parts of the Great Life.

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