一六三
有位作家請大師一語道出現代世界的面貌。
大師毫不遲疑地說：「人們對於宇宙的知識愈來愈豐富，對於自我的認識却愈來愈淺。」
有個天文學家，他簡直被近代發現的天文奇觀震懾迷住了，大師立卽說：「宇宙內充滿了億萬奇妙的東西，恒星也好，電波球體也好，卽使是黑洞也好，最神奇的，莫過於自己了。」
SHALLOWNESS
A journalist one day asked the Master to name one thing that characterises the Modern
World.
The Master unhesitatingly replied, “People every day know more and more about the
Cosmos and less and less about themselves.”
And to an astronomer who held him spellbound with the wonders of modern
astronomy, the Master suddenly said, “Of all the millions of strange objects in the
universe — the black holes and quasars and pulsars — the strangest, unquestionably, is the
self!”