ここシリコンバレーに仏教僧のなかでもこのように偉大なる師が、私たちのために来て下さったことはとても貴重なことだと思います。ティク・ナット・ハンは私たちの精神(who we are)を理解してくださり、また、"今この瞬間を100%あるがままに自覚する" こと(mindfulness)によって、私たちの意識が新たなものになることもご存知なのだと思います」
It's like when nuclear scientists say that to understand an elementary particle and really enter into the world of the infinitely small, you have to become a participant and not an observer anymore.
In India they use the example of a grain of salt that would like to know how salty the ocean is.
インドには、海がどれほど塩辛いのか知ろうと試みた一粒の塩(a grain of salt)の話があります。
How can a grain of salt come to know this?
一粒の塩はどうすればいいのでしょうか?
The only way is for it to jump into the ocean, and the understanding will be perfect;
ただひとつ、海に飛びこめばわかります。そうすれば完璧に理解できるでしょう。
the separation between the object of understanding and the subject of understanding is no longer there.
そのとき理解の対象(the object of understanding)と理解の主体(the subject of understanding)との隔たりはなくなります。
In our time, nuclear scientists have begun to see that. That is why they say that in order to really understand the world of the elementary particle, you have to stop being an observer, you have to become a participant.