Rise After Falling

    A father was worried about his son,____was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk (僧侣)____ (train) his boy.

    The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father, “I insist that your son should be left alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months.____ you can't come to see him during this period.”

    Three months later, the boy's father ____ (return). The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an ____(experience) boxer. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he ____(fall) down, but at once the boy stood up; and each time a heavy blow knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, “____do you think of your child?”

    “What a shame!” the boy's father said, “I never thought he would be so ____(easy) knocked down. I needn't have him stay here any ____ (long)!

     “I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down, he stands up again instead of ____ (cry)? That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have.