一八七 默 观
大师常说，唯有沉默能使人潜移默化。
但他从不解释这沉默是什么。若有人问他，他只是笑笑，然后竖起食指紧贴在他紧闭的嘴唇上，使弟子们更是丈二和尚摸不着头脑。
某天，有人问：「人如何才能达到你所说的沉默境界呢？」他才泄漏了一点儿天机。
大师说的这般简单，令弟子们不得不察看他的脸色，看看他是否开玩笑。他却一本正经地说：「不论你在何处，仔细地看，虽然外界并无一物；仔细地听，虽然外界寂静无声。」
CONTEMPLATION
The Master would often say that Silence alone brought transformation.
But no one could get him to define what Silence was. When asked he would laugh,
then hold his forefinger up against his tightened lips — which only increased the
bewilderment of his disciples.
One day there was a breakthrough when someone asked. “And how is one to arrive at
this Silence that you speak of?”
The Master said something so simple that his disciples studied his face for a sign that
he might be joking. He wasn’t. He said. “Wherever you may be, look when there is
apparently nothing to see; listen when all is seemingly quiet.”