"I was check his brain," Ketut said. "To see if he had evil spirits in his mind."
"我在检查他的脑袋，"赖爷说，"看他脑子里有没有恶灵？"

"What kind of evil spirits?"
"哪一种恶灵？"

"Liss," he said. "I am Balinese. I believe from black magic. I believe evil spirits come out rivers and hurt people."
"小莉，"他说，"我是巴厘岛人。我相信巫术。我相信恶灵从河里跑出来害人。"

"Did the boy have evil spirits?"
"男孩有没有恶灵？"

"No. He is only sick in his birthday. His family will make sacrifice. This will be OK. And you, Liss? You are practice Balinese meditation every night? Keep mind and heart clean?"
"没有。他只是生日出了毛病。他的家人做奉献就没事了。小莉，你呢？每天晚上有没有练巴厘禅修？让脑子和心灵干净？"

"Every night," I promised.
"每天晚上都做。"我保证。

"You learn to smile even in your liver?"
"学习让肝脏微笑？"

"Even in my liver, Ketut. Big smile in my liver."
"让肝脏也微笑，赖爷。肝脏笑得很开心。"

"Good. This smile will make you beautiful woman. This will give you power of to be very pretty. You can use this power—pretty power!—to get what you want in life."
"很好。微笑让你成为美丽的女人，给你变漂亮的力量。你可以使用这种力量——漂亮的力量——得到生命中想要的东西。"

"Pretty power!" I repeat the phrase, loving it. Like a meditating Barbie. "I want pretty power!"
"漂亮的力量！"我重复这个让我喜爱的句子，像在禅修的芭比娃娃。"我要漂亮的力量！"

"You are still practice Indian meditation, too?"
"你也还练印度禅修吧？"

"Every morning."
"每天早上。"

"Good. Don't forget your Yoga. Beneficial to you. Good for you to keep practice both ways of meditation—Indian and Balinese. Both different, but good in equal way. Same-same. I think about religion, most of it is same-same."
"很好！别忘了你的瑜伽，对你有益。持续练习印度和巴厘两种禅修对你很好。两者虽不同，却同样好。都一样、都一样。我思考宗教，多数都一样、都一样。"

"Not everybody thinks so, Ketut. Some people like to argue about God."
"不是每个人都这么想，赖爷。有些人喜欢与神争论。"

"Not necessary," he said. "I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different re-ligion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, ‘I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion."
"没有必要，"他说，"你如果遇见信不同宗教的人想与神争论，我有好的想法。我的想法是，听这人说有关神的一切。别跟他争论神的事，最好说："我同意你。"然后你回家，随心所欲地祈祷。这是我的想法，让人们平心静气对待宗教。"