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一八六　显　露

每有新来弟子投入门下，大师的初步教义总不外乎：

「你可知道有一个人，他永不摒弃你直至你咽下最后一口气？」

「他是谁？」

「就是你。」

「你可知道你所有的问题的答案吗？」

「是什么？」

「就是你。」

「你能猜出你所有的困难的解决办法吗？」
「我不猜了！」


「就是你。」

MANIFESTATION

When a new disciple carne to the Master, this is the catechism he was usually
subjected to:

“Do you know the one person who will never abandon you in the whole of your
lifetime?”

“Who is it?” “You.”

“And do you know the answer to every question you may have?”

“What is it?” “You.”

“And can you guess the solution to every one of your problems?”

“I give up.” “You.”

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一八五　明心见性

大师同时强调知识及智慧二者。

他曾如此答复：「知识是来自读书或聆听演说。」

「智慧呢？」

「是来自阅读你自己这本书。」

他又加上一句妙言：「这可不是一件容易的工作呵！因为这本书每分钟都在增订当中。」

ENLIGHTENMENT

The Master was an advocate both of learning and of Wisdom.

“Learning.” he said when asked, “is got by reading books or listening to lectures.”
“And Wisdom?”

“By reading the book that is you.”

He added as an afterthought: “Not an easy task at all, for every minute of the day
brings a new edition of the book!”

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一八四　伟　大

大师感叹地说：「这世界的问题都是出自于人类不肯长大。」

「如何才算长大了呢？」弟子问。

「直到有一天他不必为任何原因说谎。」

GREATNESS

“The trouble with the world.” said the Master with a sigh, “is that human beings refuse
to grow up.”

“When can a person be said to have grown up?” asked a disciple.

“On the day he does not need to be lied to about anything.”

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一八三　琴瑟合鸣

有个人的婚姻发生问题，前来请益，大师说：「你应该学习听从你的妻子。」

这人老实地遵照指示行事。一个月后他囘覆大师：他已学会听从他老婆的每一句话了。

大师微笑着说：「现在，你囘去听从你老婆没有说出来的每个字。」

AT-ONE-MENT

When a man whose marriage was in trouble sought his advice, the Master said. “You
must leam to listen to your wife.”

The man took this advice to heart and returned after a month to say that he had learnt
to listen to every word his wife was saying.

Said the Master with a smile, “Now go home and listen to every word she isn’t
saying.”

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一八二　宗教制裁

有天，一位门徒提到释迦、耶稣及默罕穆德在世时，都被当代人列为强盗或异端之辈。

大师说：「除非有上千个忠诚信徒同声指认他为亵圣者，否则他还不配自视得到至高的真理。」

PERSECUTION

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha. Jesus, Mohammed were branded as
rebels and heretics by their contemporaries.

Said the Master, “Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a
thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.”

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一八一　无　限

大师几乎绝口不论天主或是神圣的事情。他说：「对于天主，我们只知道，我们所知道的一切简直微不足道。」

有一天，他提到一位想尽办法要拜他为师的人：「他来到我门下学习，结果他什么也没学到。」

只有少数门徒明了：大师所要教的，是无法学的，也无法教。所以人们确实无法从他那里学到什么。

INFINITY

It was impossible to get the Master to speak of God or of things divine. “About God.”
he said, “we can only know that what we know is nothing.”

One day he told of a man who deliberated long and anxiously before embarking on
discipleship. “He came to study under me; with the result that he leamt nothing.”

Only a few of the disciples understood: What the Master had to teach could not be
leamt. Nor taught. So all one could really learn from him was nothing.

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一八０　反　对

开创风气者常饱经他人评论而受尽挫折。大师说：「仔细听取批评的内容，那可能正是你的朋友难以启齿的。」

他又说：「不要被那些批评打垮。你要知道，自古没有人为批评家雕塑铜像的。被塑像的常是那些饱受批评的人。」

OPPOSITION

To a pioneering spirit who was discouraged by frequent criticism the Master said,
“Listen to the words of the critic. He reveals what your friends hide from you.”

But he also said. “Do not be weighed down by what the critic says. No statue was ever
erected to honour a critic. Statues are for the criticized.”

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一七八　有　省

有囘，弟子们聚在一起讨论读书的利益，有些人认为这是浪费时间，有些人则难以苟同。

于是他们请教大师，他说：「你曾否读过一本书，列在正文下面的小字注解，有时也如正文一般激发读者不少灵感？」

弟子们颔首同意。

大师接着说：「生活就好比那正文。」

DISCLOSURE

The discussion among the disciples once centred on the usefulness of reading. Some
thought it was a waste of time, others disagreed.

When the Master was appealed to, he said. “Have you ever read one of those texts in
which the notes scrawled in the margin by a reader prove to be as illuminating as the text
itself?”

The disciples nodded in agreement.

“Life.” said the Master, “is one such text,”

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一七七　名　相

大师对时髦的新发明，童心未泯地好奇不已。当他看到一个可以放入口袋的迷你计算机，情不自禁地赞叹一番。

过后，他说出相当中肯的一句话：「好像许多人的口袋里都有这个迷你计算机，可是口袋里却没有多少钱值得计算。」

一周之后，有位访客来请教授徒之道。他说：「让他们分清本末。最好是先攒足够的钱，然后才计数它；最好是先有具体的经验，再去设立名相解说。」

DEFINITIONS

The Master had a childlike fascination for modern inventions. He could not get over
his amazement at the pocket calculator when he saw one.

Later he said, good-naturedly. “A lot of people seem to have those little pocket
calculators, but nothing in their pockets worth calculating!”

Weeks later when a visitor asked him what he taught his disciples, he said, “To get
their priorities right: better have the money than calculate it: better have the experience
than define it.”