busy oneself in the classics and ignore what is going on beyond one's immediate surroundingsBoth ears are shut to what goes on outside the window.Pay no attention to what is going on beyond one's study and bury oneself in the classics.The whole mind is concentrated on the sages' books.
Related Translations:
两耳不闻窗外事: not care what is going on outside one's window; be oblivious of the outside world; hold aloft from the affairs of the world reality; not bother about what's happening in the outside world
