Without Relinquishing Craving, There Is No Liberation

Before a carp leaps through the Dragon Gate to undergo complete transformation and become a dragon god, how long must it accumulate energy, how much merit and great virtue must it amass, and how much strength must it possess to make that sudden, forceful leap, instantly shedding its old form?

Many individuals fail to accumulate sufficient power or pay the necessary price. In their haste, they leap prematurely, only to find themselves not passing through the Dragon Gate nor joining the ranks of dragons; they remain the same carp they always were. Some even end up bruised and battered, physically maimed or perished, without gaining a single dragon scale.

Unwilling to relinquish any desire, they seek to free themselves and become sages. This is the greatest greed of modern people.