七七 离题
那天的集会中，所有的问题都是针对死后的生命而发的。
大师却只笑而不答。
弟子们一再追问他拒答的原因。他说：「你们难道看不出，那些追求另一个永恒不朽生命的，都是那些不知道该如何度过此生的人？」
有个门徒仍然锲而不舍：「究竟死后有没有生命？」
「究竟死前有没有生命？这才是问题所在！」大师留下一个公案。
IRRELEVANCE
All questions at the public meeting that day were about life beyond the grave
The Master only laughed and did not give a single answer.
To his disciples who demanded to know the reason for his evasiveness, he later said.
“Have you observed that it is precisely those who do not know what to do with this life
who wants another that will last forever?”
“But is there life after death or is there not?” persisted a disciple.
“Is there life before death? — that is the question!” said the Master enigmatically.