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有囘,弟子們聚在一起討論讀書的利益,有些人認為這是浪費時間,有些人則難以苟同。

於是他們請教大師,他說:「你曾否讀過一本書,列在正文下面的小字註解,有時也如正文一般激發讀者不少靈感?」

弟子們頷首同意。

大師接着說:「生活就好比那正文。」

DISCLOSURE

The discussion among the disciples once centred on the usefulness of reading. Some
thought it was a waste of time, others disagreed.

When the Master was appealed to, he said. “Have you ever read one of those texts in
which the notes scrawled in the margin by a reader prove to be as illuminating as the text
itself?”

The disciples nodded in agreement.

“Life.” said the Master, “is one such text,”