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perhaps, the art of life is successfully challenging the pain.
"the dragon gate"
in china there is a waterfall called the dragon gate. its waters plunge a hundred feet, more swiftly than an arrow shot by a strong archer. it is said that thousands of carp gather in the basin below, hoping to climb the falls, and that any whcih succeed will turn into a dragon. however, not a single carp out of a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand can climb the falls, not even after ten or twenty years. some are swept away by the strong currents, some fall prey to eagles, hawks, kites and owls, and others are netted, scooped-up, or even shot with arrows by fishermen who line either bank of the wide falls.
such is the difficulty of a carp becoming a dragon. [mwnd, vol.1]
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