Saturday, March 27, 2010

The will to accomplish the impossible as the possible

The young man pressed on into the mountains for days. The Kumgang Mountains in Korea have thousands of peaks and span a huge area of land. One day sitting down eating rice balls a ratty old woman stumbled out from the thick underbrush. She asked the young man for some of his rice balls and he gave her some. She asked him why he wondered so far into the mountains as few dare to come this deep into the brush. He told her that he had come to hunt the white tiger, she warned him to go home as it was too dangerous and that he would be better off to go home where it was safer. She remarked that those like her who live in these mountains do not know if they will live to see another day while the tiger lives. He told here that he had practiced for many years and has homed in his skill, acquired beyond the expectations of everyone and thus he would stay to hunt the tiger. The old women told him to shoot the tiger one must hit it in one shoot when one first sees it on the horizon, to miss or delay means death. Oddly enough the skill the young man had developed was apt for such a hunt, after all he could shoot a pin in a tree from a mile away and a ant off a hill without hitting the hill from three miles away, if anyone could kill the white tiger it was him. The old woman then left the boy who began to scan the horizon for the white tiger. So the impossible tasks accomplished led to the possibility of beating the tiger the old woman stated was fast and once it pounced its prey was dead. Aiming high helps make hard tasks easier once you have trained to accomplish the impossible as possible.

Peace till next week
Ciao

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