I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

  • -- Joan Halifax 哈利法克斯

我曾在监狱系统、死囚区和最高安全级别工作过。那份工作我干了六年。我和社会上最难相处的人共事过。佛教对这些人来说是容易接近和有益的。

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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

然而,当我工作的时候,我并不觉得整个世界都在看着我——我从来没有想过这一点。我想的是让我的作品变得纯粹,如果它是纯粹的,那么它就可以被理解。这真的很直接。

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

我们所能做的最好的事情就是对我们的朋友和同行的乘客友好和帮助,当我们肩并肩漂流向我们共同的命运时,他们紧紧抓住同一粒尘埃。

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

我想说冥想对艺术家是有帮助的,这是真的,很好,但它本质上对任何一种生活过程都是有帮助的。