二０九 洒脱自在
大师为了保持轻松自然的家风，不愿弟子们过度认真，包括对他的教导在内，他喜欢讲他自己的故事：
「我的第一个弟子为了修行，心力憔悴不堪；第二个弟子勇猛精进练习我传授的方法，差点把自己逼疯了；第三个弟子终日沉浸于静坐默观中，变得呆若木鸡；只有第四个弟子保持了自己的身心平衡。」
「他怎么做到的？」在座的人都异口同声地问。
「大槪是因为，他是唯一拒绝遵照我的方法去做的人。」大师一语惊座。
LIGHT-HEARTEDNESS
In keeping with his doctrine that nothing be taken too seriously, not even his own
teachings, the Master loved to tell this story on himself:
“My very first disciple was so weak that the exercises killed him. My second disciple
drove himself crazy from his earnest practice of the exercises I gave him. My third
disciple dulled his intellect through too much contemplation. But the fourth managed to
keep his sanity.”
“Why was that?” someone would invariably ask.
“Possibly because he was the only one who refused to do the exercises.” The Master’s
words would be drowned in howls of laughter.