一七八 有 省
有囘,弟子们聚在一起讨论读书的利益,有些人认为这是浪费时间,有些人则难以苟同。
于是他们请教大师,他说:「你曾否读过一本书,列在正文下面的小字注解,有时也如正文一般激发读者不少灵感?」
弟子们颔首同意。
大师接着说:「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,”