九四 自 立
大师似乎从不在意别人对他的看法。弟子想要知道获得这种内心自由的方法。大师大笑地说：「二十岁以前，我从不在乎别人怎么看我；二十岁以后，我总是忧虑我的亲朋好友会作何想；五十多岁以后，有一天我突然发现，他们根本很少想到我。」
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!”