心不在焉

Who has not sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfaction from his food in which appetite had no share? I have been thrilled to think that I owed a mental perception to the commonly gross sense of taste, that I have been inspired through the palate, that some berries which I had eaten on a hillside had fed my genius. "The soul not being mistress of herself," says Thseng-tseu, "one looks, and one does not see; one listens, and one does not hear; one eats, and one does not know the savor of food." He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

所謂修身在正其心者：身有所忿懥，則不得其正；有所恐懼，則不得其正；有所好樂，則不得其正；有所憂患，則不得其正；心不在焉，視而不見，聽而不聞，食而不知其味。此謂修身在正其心。

梭羅在此又引用了《大學》。四書中的《大學》可說是儒家思想的綱領，其中不少段落在高中時也曾讀過，卻是視而不見，聽而不聞。梭羅說，能夠體會食物的真味之人，不會貪得無厭；而食不知味的人，永遠無法滿足。台灣的教育制度造成每個學子在上大學之前，他的靈魂無法為自己作主，只希望自己像電腦一樣，能塞多少就塞多少。在印象中，那個時期，未真正品嚐過為準備升學所必須閱讀的材料，只是想盡辦法把那些材料記下來而已。這些吸收進來的知識無法滋養我的心靈，只能佔據我的硬碟空間，以致於後來找回自己的心時，發現要把它們清一清也不是一件容易的事。據說，受到黨國教育毒害最深的就是 40 - 60 歲這一水的人。而要清除的還不只是這一部份而已。