一六三
有位作家请大师一语道出现代世界的面貌。
大师毫不迟疑地说：「人们对于宇宙的知识愈来愈丰富，对于自我的认识却愈来愈浅。」
有个天文学家，他简直被近代发现的天文奇观震慑迷住了，大师立即说：「宇宙内充满了亿万奇妙的东西，恒星也好，电波球体也好，即使是黑洞也好，最神奇的，莫过于自己了。」
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!”