As transcribed from an episode of "Kung Fu."
HO FONG: They took our money, our cart, our clothes. Everything we had of value.
MASTER KAN: Except that which is irreplaceable, your lives. How did you come to leave the main road?
HO FONG: Because we were fools. We trusted a stranger.
KWAI CHANG: He was an old man with a kind face and a gentle manner.
MASTER KAN: Bring them clothes. (Pause.) Ho Fong… what lesson have you learned form this?
HO FONG: Never trust a stranger.
MASTER KAN: Kwai Chang… what lesson have you learned from this?
KWAI CHANG: To expect the unexpected.
MASTER KAN: Ho Fong… in the morning when you are well and rested, you will leave the temple.
HO FONG: When should I return, Master Kan?
MASTER KAN: To us, never. (Pause.) You are troubled about your friend Ho Fong?
KWAI CHANG: I do not understand why he was told to leave, and not I, when I was equally responsible for trusting the old man.
MASTER KAN: We do not punish for trust. If while building a house a carpenter strikes a nail. It proves faulty by bending. Does the carpenter lose faith in all nails and stop building his house?
KWAI CHANG: Then we are required to trust. Even if we are often reminded of the existence of evil.
MASTER KAN: Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good.
KWAI CHANG: And is good a great reward for trusting?
MASTER KAN: In striving for an ideal, we do not seek rewards. Yet trust does sometimes bring with it a great reward.
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