使用 "Without + doing" 结构表示条件否定，对比 "storms" 与 "sunny days"，意象鲜明，逻辑紧密。
The Chan master once said: “Ordinary people detour when they encounter difficulties. While this may ensure their safety and long life, it is like a river flowing far and wide, eventually returning to the sea. However, when it reaches the downstream area, silt accumulates, and the flow becomes sluggish. If it were to look back on its life, how lamentable would it be!”
In its youth, a river, perhaps out of ignorance or impulse, charges straight ahead when facing a break in the path. It seems to be seeking death, yet it does not die; instead, it leaps from a hundred meters high, creating a spectacular and unique landscape. Youth, fueled by faith, generates an unparalleled strength that can move the earth and sky.
A waterfall is precisely the miracle created by a river when it is at a dead end and moves forward with unwavering determination and courage.
If one never falls, one does not know the pain and thus cannot learn how to prevent falling. If one never gets lost, one does not experience the taste of having no way forward and cannot learn to recognize the correct direction next time. Without experiencing the darkness of night, one cannot develop the desire for light. Without enduring the assault of storms, one cannot dream of sunny days after the rain. Sometimes, detours are inevitable; sometimes, detours are themselves a form of wealth.
禅师曾言：“常人遇困便绕行，虽能明哲保身、安享天年，恰似河流源远流长，终归大海。然而行至下游，泥沙淤积，流速渐缓，若回首此生，岂不令人唏嘘？”
河流年少时，或许因懵懂，或许因冲动，见断崖绝路，竟径直冲去。看似寻死，实则未亡，只是从百米高处一跃而下，化作一线奇绝美景。青春因信仰而生出无与伦比之力，足以撼动天地。
瀑布，正是江河在走投无路之际，义无反顾、勇往直前所创造的奇迹。
未曾跌倒，不知疼痛，便无从知晓如何防跌；未曾迷路，未尝绝路之苦，便难以在下次认清方向；未经长夜，何来对光明的渴望；未历风雨，又怎会有雨后初晴、阳光普照的梦想？有时，弯路非走不可，弯路有时即是财富。
"Suffering is a unique kind of wealth that not everyone can possess"
"Bitterness is often the best medicine."
"The pains and tears of the past are nothing more than inevitable trials of life"
"The ribbons on a laurel wreath are woven from pain and hardship."
"Hardship is a stepping stone for geniuses."