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随机施教

一九二 随机施教

有位访客满怀期待而来,却对大师的一般陈腔老调颇感失望。

他向一位门人吐诉:「我不惜跋涉千里,只为一访名师,却发现他与凡人并无二致。」

这位门人答复他说:「师父好比一个鞋匠,虽然拥有取之不尽的皮货,但他的责任,只能按照你脚的尺寸,加以裁剪缝制而已。」

PROPORTION

A visitor who was full of expectations was unimpressed by the commonplace words
the Master addressed to him.

“I came here in quest of a Master.” he said to a disciple. “All I find is a human being
no different from the others.”

Said the disciple, “The Master is a shoemaker with an infinite supply of leather. But he
does the cutting and stitching in accordance with the dimension of your foot. “