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Two Stonecutters

Two Stonecutters

Zen Wind from Tasaka Juku

One day, a traveler stopped by a town
where a new church was being built.
There, two stonecutters were working.

The traveler was curious about their work
and asked one of them,

“What are you doing?”

To this question,
the stonecutter answered bluntly
with an unpleasant expression,

“I am fighting with
this damnable stone.”

Then, the traveler asked the other stonecutter
the same question.

The complete article can be found in Issue #281 of the Tokyo Journal.

二人の石切り職人

旅人が、ある町を通りかかりました。
その町では、新しい教会が建設されているところであり、
建設現場では、二人の石切り職人が働いていました。

その仕事に興味を持った旅人は、
一人の石切り職人に聞きました。

あなたは、何をしているのですか。

その問いに対して、石切り職人は、
不愉快そうな表情を浮かべ、
ぶっきらぼうに答えました。

 このいまいましい石を切るために、
 悪戦苦闘しているのさ。

そこで、旅人は、もう一人の石切り職人に
同じことを聞きました。

tj

この記事の全容は Tokyo Journal #281号 にてお読みいただけます。

Written By:

Hiroshi Tasaka

Tokyo Journal columnist Hiroshi Tasaka is President of Think Tank SophiaBank, Former Special Advisor to Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member and Tama University Professor. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering in 1981. From 1987, he worked at the Battelle Memorial Institute and also at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in the USA. In 1990, he participated in founding the Japan Research Institute. In 2000, he became a Professor at Tama University in Tokyo and founded Think Tank SophiaBank. Dr. Tasaka is a philosopher who has put forward a wide range of ideas, theories and philosophies. He is the author of more than 60 books.



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