泰拉瑞亚可以局域网么:John Hanrahan谈《瑜伽战士》

视频：//v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDQwMzYyNzY=.html

原文：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_539c09ae0100clnh.html~type=v5_one&label=rela_nextarticle

从别人的博客里看到的视频和文字，很有趣，重新翻译了一遍，欢迎练习瑜伽的人来分享：

Why did you make this film?
你为什么要制作这个短片？
I practice yoga. I found that many places in the West solely focus on the physical portion of yoga，the asanas. The asanas are only a small part of yoga. Many people don't realize that their primary function is to prepare the body for meditation. My film is a commentary on those who choose to only focus on the physical aspect. I want to remind them that there is a lot more to it!
我练习瑜伽。我发现西方的很多地方仅只注意瑜伽的体式部分，阿萨纳。体式只是瑜伽的一小部分。很多人没有意识到体式的主要功能是为冥想做准备。我的短片是描述那些只关注体式部分的人。我想提醒他们，此外还有很多！

Why did you call the film “Yogin”?
为什么你把这个短片起名叫“Yogin”?
Yogin is another term for yogi, a practitioner of yoga. I liked Yogin because it sounds plural in the English language and it also sounds like Shogun and Ronin, associating more of a warrior aspect to the yogi.
Yogin 是 yogi 的另一种说法，即瑜伽修行者。我喜欢 Yogin，因为它听起来更像英语中的复数，也像Shogun(幕府时代的将军)和Ronin(浪人)，比yogi更能使人联想到战士。

How long did it take you?
你制作花费了多长时间？
From the very first time I said,“Hey, it would be cool to have two yoga masters face-off,”until I had a finished piece was about 2 years. That doesn’t mean I spent 2 years on it. I was in an MFA program at the time, so I had other classes, and I did little work over the breaks. If I had worked on it full time, it would have been 8-10 months.
从最开始我说“嘿，让两个瑜伽高手对峙会很酷”直到我完成大约用了两年的时间。不是说我花了两年的时间来制作。我那时正在攻读美术硕士，要上其他课，所以我只能利用余暇进行很少的创作。如果我全力制作，那就只需要8-10个月。

What programs did you use?
你用到哪些程序？
I animated in Autodesk Maya, and then composited in Adobe After Effects. I like the fact that Maya is the Sanskrit word for“illusion”and can be interpreted as a phenomenal dream of duality. Eastern philosophies view Earth as a cosmic dream in which we are all actors in a play. It seems fitting that my film has been created within Maya.
我在Autodesk Maya桌面壁纸中取材绘制，然后在Adobe After Effects（Adobe后效）程序中进行整合。我喜欢的是，Maya是“幻觉”的梵文，还可以译作“二元世界的现象之梦”（亦即源于二元性认知的“执象而求”）。东方哲学将地球看作浩渺宇宙的一个梦，我们都是这场梦中戏的演员。我的短片创自Maya看来很契合。

What is that statue and does it have any significance?
那个雕像是什么，它有何含义？
Of course! Everything in the film has significance. That is a statue of the Hindu god, Shiva the destroyer.  In this particular form, Nataraja, Shiva is dancing upon the ignorance of man. The master, Guruji, is the “actor” playing the part of the will of Shiva.
当然了！短片中的每样事物都有它的含义。它是印度神的雕像，湿婆，毁灭之神。在这个独特的图式——舞王像里，湿婆正在为人们的无知而起舞。那位大师，Guruji，是体现湿婆意志的“演员”。
 
What other symbols are there?
其他的象征呢？
The temple has eight sides, representing Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga: Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi. The pattern on the floor is a Sri Yantra. It is said that meditation on that pattern in the minds eye can carry one to enlightenment. The mountains and temple are purple – the color of the 7th and highest Chakra, Sahasrara. It is the union with the higher self, all is one and one is all. Note that Guruji almost always has the statue of Shiva, or a big purple mountain behind him.            
寺庙有八个角，代表了帕坦加里瑜伽的八个分支：制戒（外在控制、宇宙戒律）、自律（内在控制）、体式（调身）、呼吸控制（调息）、意识控制（制感、调心）、专注、冥想、三摩地。地板上的图案是一种印度冥想圖。据说对照此图冥想可使人开悟。山峦和庙宇是紫色的--第七轮，最高轮，顶轮的颜色。这是与更高自我的结合，一切归一，一即一切。注意，那个大师的身后几乎总是湿婆的雕像或巨大的紫色山峰。

The battle scene seems to start off with difficult poses. It seems like you could have created more range, starting off with simpler yoga poses moving to the more difficult ones.
交战的情景看起来是从高难体式开始的。你本可以创造更大的空间，从更简易的瑜伽体式进展到更高难的。
The drama on Earth is one big cosmic dance. The egotistical Yogin challenges Guruji to a battle. Guruji accepts the challenge but then quickly morphs the battle into a dance. Towards the end of the battle scene the characters are playing more than they are competing. A yoga-battle is silly and absurd!   
地球上的演出是一场盛大的宇宙之舞。一个傲慢自大的瑜伽战士挑战瑜伽大师。大师接受了挑战，但很快化交战为舞蹈。交战情景临近尾声时，双方更像在表演，而不像竞赛。瑜伽之战是愚蠢荒唐的！

It doesn’t really seem to be in the spirit of yoga. A true yogi would never compete.
它看起来并非真的合乎瑜伽的精神。一个真正的瑜伽士从不竞争。
No kidding! That is the whole point of the film. The ego loves a competition. When we are attached to the will of the ego, there can be an unpleasant and often painful outcome.
正是！这就是短片的全部要旨。自我喜欢竞争。当我们依附于自我的欲望，结果可能令人不快的并且常常令人痛苦。

I don’t get it, why did Yogin spontaneously combust?
我不理解，为什么他会自己燃烧了呢？
When Guruji feels like Yogin has stepped aside from his incredibly powerful ego, he moves their interaction to the next level, levitation via pranayama. Pranayama is often viewed as breath control; however that is only partially true. Pranayama is the control of life-force. I look at it this way: We can take a corpse, stuff it with food, give it water, replace the damaged organs and tissues, electrocute it or do any other number of things to a lifeless body - it is not going to come back to life. There has to be some other element. That element is an intelligent engery or life force, also known as prana or chi. Unfortunately for Yogin (or fortunately if you look at the larger picture of reincarnation), his ego is so strong that it inhibits the flow of his life-force. As he concentrates his prana with the “breath of fire” the ego traps the energy until Yogin’s body cannot physically hold it any longer and he spontaneously combusts. We all know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. So what happens to that energy when we die? Yogin has just been taught a monumental lesson. He literally burned away is ego. When his life-force returns to another body, his ego will have a considerable less amount of control over his actions.
当大师感到瑜伽战士已经从他那不可置信的强大自我中走偏，他将彼此的相互作用提高了一个层次，经普拉那雅玛达到漂浮。普拉那雅玛常被视为控制呼吸；然而这只说对了一部分。普拉娜是生命力的控制。我这样理解：我们可以拿一具尸体，给这个没有生命的躯体填食、灌水、更换损坏的器官和组织、电疗或做其他任何事，——它不会复活。必然还需要其他的要素。这个要素就是有智慧的能量或生命力，也叫普拉那或气。这个瑜伽战士的不幸（抑或幸运，如果把它放在轮回的大布景上来看）是他的自我如此强大以至于抑制了自身生命力的流动。当他用“火的呼吸”集中他的生命之气（普拉那）时，自我攫取了能量，直到他再也无法从身体上控制自我，于是他自燃了。我们都知道这能量不能被创造或毁灭，只会转换。因此当我们死时这种能量会怎样？Yogin刚刚学习了重要的一课。他毁掉的其实是他的自我。当他的生命能量回到另一个体内，他的自我对他的行动将采取少得多的控制。