The Four Agreements (Martin Roth Beats Edit) - Matthew Dekay/Martin Roth.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Matthew Dekay/Martin Roth
[00:01.000] 编曲 : Matthew Dekay/Martin Roth
[00:14.693]What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream.
[00:20.199]You are dreaming right now in this moment.
[00:23.194]You're dreaming with the brain awake.
[00:26.442]Dreaming is the main function of the mind,
[00:30.444]And the mind dreams twenty-four hours a day.
[00:33.694]It dreams when the brain is awake,
[00:36.449]And it also dreams when the brain is asleep.
[00:39.433]The difference is that when the brain is awake,
[00:42.690]There is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way.
[00:47.937]When we go to sleep we do not have the frame,
[00:51.183]And the dream has the tendency to change constantly.
[00:54.690]Humans are dreaming all the time.
[00:57.444]Before we were born the humans before us created a big outside dream that we will call society's dream or the dream of the planet.
[01:07.449]The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller,
[01:11.685]personal dreams, which together create a dream of a family,
[01:15.694]A dream of a community, a dream of a city,
[01:18.943]A dream of a country, and finally a dream of the whole humanity.
[01:23.196]The dream of the planet includes all of society's rules, its beliefs,
[01:29.187]Its laws, its religions,
[01:31.434]Its different cultures and ways to be,
[01:33.432]Its governments, schools, social events, and holidays.
[01:37.180]We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream,
[01:41.446]And the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.
[01:47.439]The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born,
[01:52.448]We hook the child's attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind.
[01:57.937]The outside dream uses Mom and Dad,
[02:00.935]The schools, and religion to teach us how to dream.
[02:04.431]Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
[02:13.191]We can perceive millions of things simultaneously,
[02:17.436]But using our attention,
[02:18.940]We can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind.
[02:23.181]The adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition.
[02:30.445]That is the way we learned everything we know.
[02:32.940]By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream.
[02:38.435]We learned how to behave in society:
[02:41.194]What to believe and what not to believe;
[02:43.687]What is acceptable and what is not acceptable;
[02:46.442]What is good and what is bad;
[02:47.936]What is beautiful and what is ugly; what is right and what is wrong.
[02:52.187]It was all there already — all that knowledge,
[02:55.441]All those rules and concepts about how to behave in the world.
[03:00.180]When you were in school,
[03:02.446]You sat in a little chair and put your attention on what the teacher was teaching you.
[03:07.186]When you went to church,
[03:08.949]You put your attention on what the priest or minister was telling you.
[03:12.190]It is the same dynamic with Mom and Dad,
[03:14.939]Brothers and sisters: They were all trying to hook your attention.
[03:18.443]We also learn to hook the attention of other humans,
[03:22.438]And we develop a need for attention which can become very competitive.
[03:26.188]Children compete for the attention of their parents, their teachers, their friends.
[03:30.945]"Look at me! Look at what I'm doing! Hey, I'm here."
[03:33.935]The need for attention becomes very strong and continues into adulthood.
[03:38.946]The outside dream hooks our attention and teaches us what to believe, beginning with the language that we speak.
[03:47.191]Language is the code for understanding and communication between humans.
[03:53.195]Every letter, every word in each language is an agreement.
[03:58.187]Once we understand the code,
[04:00.448]Our attention is hooked and the energy is transferred from one person to another.
[04:06.196]It was not your choice to speak English.
[04:09.944]You didn't choose your religion or your moral values - they were already there before you were born.
[04:16.432]We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe.
[04:21.200]We never chose even the smallest of these agreements.
[04:25.193]We didn't even choose our own name.
[04:27.439]As children, we didn't have the opportunity to choose our beliefs,
[04:32.693]But we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans.
[04:38.679]The only way to store information is by agreement.
[04:42.701]The outside dream may hook our attention,
[04:46.187]But if we don't agree, we don't store that information.
[04:49.436]As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith.
[04:55.191]To have faith is to believe unconditionally.