萨古鲁：生命如何结束，死亡如何开始？(4)

但有一个不愉快的小想法在你头脑里蠕动，今天就被毁了。这是因为你对你在宇宙中是谁失去了正确的视角。我们所在的太阳系，如果它明天消失了，宇宙中根本无人会注意到——它是如此渺小，宛若尘砾。在这如尘砾般的太阳系中，地球是一粒微尘。在那微尘中，哥印拜陀市是一粒超级微尘。而在那之中，你是一个大人物。这就是个大问题了。
When we have completely lost perspective as to who we are, what we are, how do you think you will grasp anything? Getting perspective on our life is very, very important. How come we know so many things but we don’t know what the nature of our life is?
当我们对我们是谁、我们是什么完全失去了概念时，你如何能去理解其他事呢？把握对生命的正确视角极其重要。我们为何所知甚多却不知我们生命的本质是什么呢？
Now, you asked why if somebody is dead, still some of the cells are active. Why this is so – what we’re calling “life,” physically, is a mechanism on many different levels. There is hardware, and there is software. The core of hardware is the bones. The software is equally important. Otherwise, how does a cell know that it is a human cell – that it is not a pig cell, a tree cell, or something else? It knows because there is an entire software.
现在，你问为什么如果某人死了，一些细胞依然活跃。原因是——我们所称为“生命”的，物理上，在很多层面上是一个机器。有硬件，也有软件。硬件的核心是骨骼。软件同样重要。不然，一个细胞如何知道这是一个人类细胞——而不是一个猪细胞、一个树细胞，或者别的什么？它知道是因为有一整套软件存在。