一六九 限 度
大師歡迎科技的進步,但也深知其局限性。
當一位工業家問他從事什麼職業時,他回答說:“我從事的是人類產業。”
“那是什麼行業?”工業家問道。
“以你為例,”大師說,“你的努力創造更好的物品;我的則是培養更好的人。”
後來他對弟子們說:“生活的目標是人的開花。如今,人們似乎更關注物品的完美。”
PRECEDENCE
The Master welcomed the advances of technology but was keenly aware of its
limitations.
When an industrialist asked him what his occupation was, he replied, “I’m in the
people industry.”
“And what, pray, would that be?” said the industrialist.
“Take yourself,” said the Master. “Your efforts produce better things; mine better
people.”
To his disciples he later said. “The aim of life is the flowering of persons. Nowadays
people seem concerned mostly with the perfection of things.”