Sadhguru talks about the significance of gut health or the second brain, and the importance of staying connected to soil for a healthy gut.

薩古魯談到了腸道健康，或者第二大腦健康的重要性，以及保持與土壤連結對健康腸道的重要作用。

Sadhguru: In the yogic culture, generally it is said like this, that you must always consume food which is grown in a land within the diameter, or within the radius of how much a man can walk in a day. From morning to evening, if you walk, you may do 15, 20, maybe 25 kilometers straight-line. So 25 kilometer radius, within that you must eat. What is the logic behind this? What is the science behind this? Well, what is happening in the soil as microbiome activity, and what is happening in the human gut for the same, is very similar, or in a way, a kind of a more evolved, or enhanced manifestation of the same in the gut.

Sadhguru（薩古魯）：在瑜伽文化中，一般是這么說的：你吃的食物，它們所生長的土地距離你的半徑必須位于人一日的腳程之內。如果你從早走到晚，也許能走直線距離15、20甚至25公里。所以半徑25公里，你吃的必須是這個范圍內的東西。這背后的邏輯是什么？背后的科學是什么？土壤內發(fā)生的微生物活動，與在人類腸道內發(fā)生的微生物活動，是非常相似的，或者在某種程度上來說，腸道內表現(xiàn)出來的是更加高級、更為進步的形式。

After hundreds of years, now modern medicine is talking about…there is a second brain in your gut. A whole lot of things about who you are, I hope it's not so for you, but a whole lot of things as to who you are, how you think, how you feel, your level of balance, your equanimity, everything is decided by what's happening in the gut. It's being referred to as a second brain, or the gut brain. Well, it is true that the chemistry of the body is happening at various levels. One thing is, the… the glandular secretions are very important in managing the chemistry. But gut is the place where the input for the chemical factory that you are is coming – all the food.

幾百年后的今天，現(xiàn)代醫(yī)學正在談論，你腸道里有第二個大腦。你的很多方面——我希望對你來說不是這樣——但關于你的很多方面，你怎樣思考、怎樣感覺、你的平衡程度、你的平靜程度，一切都取決于你腸道內正在發(fā)生什么。它被稱為第二大腦，或腸道大腦。的確，身體的化學作用在不同層面上發(fā)生，其中一件是腺體分泌物對于管理化學作用非常重要，但是腸道是你這個化工廠的輸入源——所有的食物。

So what kind of food? If the food is coming from the land upon which you stand, then it has a certain relationship. This whole problem – the human problem – is this that, just because you can prance around a little bit, you think…??Some people are even saying they've come from... (Laughs) some other planet, or some other universe, they're claiming. Well, if you were made like this tree, roots sticking into the soil, you would clearly, clearly know that you came from the soil. Just because nature's magnanimity, it allowed you to prance around a little bit, and you're getting all confused as to what is your source.

那么是什么類型的食物呢？如果這些食物來自你立足的土地，那么它就有某種關系。這整個問題——人類的問題就是，只因為你能夠稍微在周圍蹦跳一點，你就認為……有些人甚至說他們來自其他星球（笑），或其他宇宙，他們這樣說。嗯，如果你像這棵樹這樣根扎在土里，你會很清楚，很清楚地知道你是來自土壤。僅僅因為大自然的寬宏，允許你在周圍稍微蹦跳一點，而你就搞不清楚自己是哪里來的了。

So, being in touch with the source, which is the soil…your evolutionary process itself has been conducted by soil, instigated by soil, the most basic aspect of evolution from where life has evolved into more and more complex forms of life on this planet, in its millions of manifestations. And today, well, we can claim at least, that we are the most evolved creature on the planet. We've yet to become a... 'being,' still, evolved creatures with enormous capability. This capability, unfortunately, is working against us – our intelligence.

所以，與源頭接觸，也就是土壤……你的進化過程本身是由土壤引導、促成的。那是進化最基本的面向，這個星球的生命從那里進化為越來越復雜的生命形象，呈現(xiàn)出數(shù)以百萬計的形式。而今天，我們至少可以宣稱，我們是這個星球上最高等的生物。我們還沒有成為一個“存在”（being），但仍然是具有強大能力的高等生物。這個能力，很可惜，正在與我們作對——說的是我們的智能。

Today everybody's talking about gut brain as more important simply because they don't know how to handle this brain. This brain is becoming a serious problem, everybody thinks this is the basis of all mental issues and problems. Yes it is, if you don't know how to handle it. Such a powerful instrument! If you do not know how to handle it - yes, it's a serious problem. So now they're falling back on their gut brain, which is more reliable – at least it's involuntary! (Laughs) 

今天，每個人都在說腸道大腦更為重要，那是因為他們不知道如何處理這個大腦。這個大腦正成為一個嚴重的問題，人人都認為這是所有精神疾病和精神問題的根源。它的確是，如果你不知道該如何處理它的話。如此強大的工具！如果你不知道如何處理它，是的，那它就是個嚴重的問題。所以現(xiàn)在他們轉而依賴更可靠的腸道大腦，至少它不能自己作主?。ㄐΓ?/span>

So, the gut microbes and what's happening in the topsoil are very similar. And it not only has life-making material, it also has many, many remedies. In terms of... today we would like to call it medicines, but I would call them remedial forces. Like for example, you know, it has been found that…many studies have happened where it has been found, children playing in the soil outside always have a richer gut microbiome. Not because they're eating soil, simply it happens because the…your body and the soil are not two different things – just in two different forms. Whether you make a pot out of this soil, or you make a picture out of this soil, or you make a human body out of this soil - it is all soil.

所以，腸道微生物與表土層上的非常相似。它不僅有制造生命的原料，也有非常、非常多療效。今天我們稱之為藥物，但我稱它們?yōu)橹委熈α俊＞拖?，舉例來說，很多研究結果已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)，在戶外泥土上玩耍的小孩總是有更豐富的腸道菌群。不是因為他們吃土，而是因為你的身體和土壤并不是兩樣不同的東西，而它們只是兩種不同的形象。無論你是用這土造一個陶鍋，還是用它作一幅畫, 還是用它造一個人身，它都是土。

So, the connection and the integration– either through food or being physically connected –is very, very important; and modern lifestyle, the modern lifestyle has completely removed us from the soil. We are living way up from the soil. And well, even when we have to walk on the ground, she wears high heels, which are six inches tall. I'm not against ladies and their fashion, they can do whatever they want. But, being in touch with the earth, and above all, with the soil, is a very important part of healthy and balanced life.

所以，這種連接及整合，不論是經(jīng)由食物還是經(jīng)由身體的連接，是非常、非常重要的；而現(xiàn)代的生活方式，現(xiàn)代的生活方式讓我們完全遠離了土壤。我們生活在離土壤很高遠的地方，即便我們得在地上行走，她也穿著6英寸的高跟鞋。我可不是反對女士與她們的時尚，她們可以做任何她們想做的事。但是，與大地接觸，尤其是與土壤接觸，對于健康與平衡的生活來說是很重要的一環(huán)。

There is any number of things, and people have always, for ages, when they want to find peace, when their mind is disturbed, they go into the jungles, into the mountains, and sit quietly. In yoga always we lie down on the floor without any kind of insulations, except organic insulation, because our body should be connected. And also, the electrical negative needs to happen. So, your body gets kind of like an earthing, and the negative - it neutralizes the extra positive charge, which can cause restlessness, which can cause unnecessary activity, neurological activity, which can lead to various kinds of problems; it's like you're keeping your engine all the time at high revs.

有很多事，長久以來，當人們想要尋求平和，當他們的思緒受到干擾時，他們會走進叢林、走進山岳，然后靜靜地坐著。在瑜伽中，我們總是不隔著任何東西躺在地上，有機材料除外。因為我們的身體應該要跟土地相連接。而且，必須要有負電荷。所以，你的身體變得有點像條地線，而負電荷——它中和了多余的正電荷。多出的正電荷有可能造成躁動不安和導致不必要的神經(jīng)活動，這會造成很多的問題；這就像你讓你的引擎一直維持在高轉速。

So people went into the jungles, and forests, and mountains, and they just sat down, and they found they became peaceful. This has got something to do with the connection with the soil. You can think this is a tree, but this is soil! You can think that's an animal - that is soil! You can think this is a human being - this is soil! So, this connection is very important. Today I just heard that, when I was in Los Angeles, they were telling me there is a farm just outside of LA, where, if you pay 50 dollars, you can hug a cow for about half an hour. Oh... because you're trying to connect to the soil, you're trying to enrich the gut microbiome, you're trying to bring some semblance of balance into you. Well, if you had a powerful yogic practice, you could do that yourself from within. But if that is not there, the simplest thing is to be in touch with the soil. 

所以人們進入?yún)擦帧⑸趾蜕嚼?，他們就只是坐下來，就會發(fā)現(xiàn)他們能變平靜。這和與土壤的連接有關。你可以認為這是一棵樹，但這是土！你可以認為那是一頭動物，那是土！你可以認為這是一個人類，這是土！所以，這種連接非常重要。今天我剛聽到說，當我在洛杉磯時，他們告訴我有家農(nóng)場就正好在洛杉磯市外。在那里，如果你付 50 美元，你可以抱一只牛半小時。喔……因為你試著與土壤連接，你試著增加腸道菌群，你試圖將某些平衡帶到你當中。如果你有一個強大的瑜珈練習，你就可以自行從內在做到。但如果沒有，最簡單的方式，就是與土壤接觸。

And... it is a fact that over 300 million people suffer from asthma. Half of the children in United States develop wheezing by the time they are 3 years of age, and they are on all kinds of medications; people are allergic to all sorts of things. Well, 100 years ago, you had never heard of these allergies, very rare few had that. Today it's becoming like a normal thing, everybody is allergic to something. I've met people who are allergic to sunlight. I've met people who are allergic to rain water. I've met people, of course, the peanut and groundnut allergy, everybody knows about that. It's not like they have to eat it, if you just as much as break this legume, this wonderful legume which is very nutritious that we call as groundnut, and because it grows in the ground…Well, if I open it here, somebody allergic there 50 feet away - they could die. Just see the sensitivity of that!

而且事實上有超過3億人罹患哮喘。在美國，有半數(shù)的孩童在3歲時便有喘鳴的癥狀，他們服用各種藥物。人們對各種各樣的東西過敏。100年前你從沒聽過這些過敏癥，極少人有過敏。今天，這些過敏癥成了常態(tài)，每個人都對某些東西過敏。我見過有人對陽光過敏，我見過有人對雨水過敏，當然我見過有些人對花生過敏，這是眾所皆知的過敏癥。不是說他們一定得吃花生，如果你光是剝開它——這個我們稱之為花生的營養(yǎng)豐富的絕佳豆科植物，因為它們長在地里……（注：花生的英文單詞groundnut的字面意思是地豆）好了，如果我在這里剝開它，對它過敏的人在五十英尺開外就可能會死?？纯从卸嗝舾校?/span>

So, these things have happened because we are beginning to think we came from elsewhere. Of course, there are some people supporting this in your mind, saying that, there are books around saying that you're all aliens who came from elsewhere. Even if you're an alien, if you happen to be one, it's fine with me. Maybe I'm also one, you know, I look like this. (Laughs) I may also be one! But we have adapted well to the life on this planet.

這些事之所以發(fā)生，是因為我們開始認為我們是來自其他地方。當然在你心里有些人支持這點，有些書主張你們全都是來自其他地方的外星人。即便你剛好是個外星人，我也無所謂。也許我也是，你知道的，我看起來像。（笑）我也許也是外星人！但是我們已經(jīng)很好地適應了這個星球上的生活。

So, our life, our body, our food, and our death, is with the soil. It must be understood that those who live in farms and open areas, the propensity towards allergies is way less for rural children and children who live elsewhere. Have you heard of anybody in Africa having pollen allergy, or something else? Have you heard of any tribals who are living close by here, anybody having any lactose intolerance? Such things are unheard of; this only happens in affluent societies because we think affluence means, we should become hydrogen balloons. That means, we must be away from the earth in every possible way. And then we start calling life-making magic, that is soil, as dirt. If this is dirt (Laughs), you and me become dirt bags. Let us not be that.

所以，我們的生命、身體、食物和死亡都與土壤在一起。必須要明白，那些住在農(nóng)場及空曠地區(qū)的人，鄉(xiāng)村的孩子和住在別的地方的孩子，他們的過敏傾向要少得多。你有聽過有哪個非洲人對花粉或別的什么過敏？你有聽過任何住在這附近的部落族群，有乳糖不耐癥？這樣的事情是前所未聞的，這只在富裕社會發(fā)生。因為我們認為富裕意味著我們應該要變成氫氣球。這意味著，我們必須盡可能地遠離土地。然后我們開始把創(chuàng)造生命的魔法，也就是土壤，稱為污泥。如果這是污泥（笑），那你我就是泥袋子。我們不要變成那樣。

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