人们常常去逛游乐园，排长队、花大笔钱，就为了观看一场机械式卡通人物的台词演绎。
为什么人们排队呢？因为他们周围到处都是活灵活现的人。卡通剧场内，机械式卡通人物的讲话与动作，也都是围绕着它们身边的事物在表达。但在剧场外，人们与身边人在一起却感到太无聊了，以至于要去观看卡通演出，看同样事情的演绎。
里面的卡通人偶被设置成有动作，甚至能讲话，但无法思考也没有感知力。人偶做的事，成千上万的人类同样在做——并且优秀千百万倍，而且拥有思想与情感。上天创造的这些真正人类，我们不用花费分毫就能见到，却会排队7小时，花大价钱去看一个人偶眨动双眼。那只是个幻境。
上天为了我们娱乐，为了我们成长，在我们眼前创造了如此多的奇迹，我们却忽略掉了它们。
Many times people visit amusement parks, stand in lines and pay so much money just to see a robotically-animated historical personality deliver a speech.
Why do people stand in a line? All around them are so many people blinking their eyes, moving their hands and speaking. What's going on inside in the animatronics theater with a robot of a historical figure speaking or moving is also going on outside all around them. But people are just so bored to death outside with other people around them that they go to visit an animatronics show to see the same things.
The statue inside may be programmed to move and even speak, but it cannot think and feel. Thousands of people all over are doing everything that the statue does----and doing it millions of times better, and with thoughts and feelings. God has created all these real people, but we won't pay a single dollar for having seen them. We will stand in a line for seven hours and pay so much money just to see a manmade statue that blinks it's eyes. It is just an illusion.
God is creating so many miracles before our eyes for our pleasure and our learning. But we ignore them.
摘自书籍《The Real You》（真正的你）
作者Radhanath Swami
