九四 自 立
大師似乎從不在意別人對他的看法。弟子想要知道獲得這種內心自由的方法。大師大笑地說：「二十歲以前，我從不在乎別人怎麼看我；二十歲以後，我總是憂慮我的親朋好友會作何想；五十多歲以後，有一天我突然發現，他們根本很少想到我。」
AUTONOMY
The Master seemed quite impervious to what people thought of him. When the
disciples asked how he had attained this stage of inner freedom, he laughed aloud and
said. “Till I was twenty I did not care what people thought of me. After twenty I worried
endlessly about what my neighbours thought. Then one day after fifty I suddenly saw that
they hardly ever thought of meat all!”