He has a faintly glowing aura he leaves customers happier than when they arrived he's simple, efficient, and above all, he has transcended his mind.
With new clarity to his gaze, Dan sees wonders about Socrates.Eventually he gets back to the gas station. Teammates take Dan out in the snow to play as best he can. He phones Socrates, who tells his student to visit once he can walk without crutches. Back in Berkeley, Dan keeps up his training.Finally the doctor says his leg looks good, unusually good in fact, but gymnastics is likely out of the question forever. He ponders Socrates and life's mysteries as he trains. Soon he's up on crutches, and not too long afterwards he's training intensely like some sort of Zenned-out Arnold Schwarzenegger who prefers handstands to bench-pressing. Lying in his hospital bed, Dan meditates.She tells him everything has a purpose, and that this injury is his training. Joy continues the lesson as Dan is assaulted by a wave of pain.At each turn of fortune, the farmer declares, “Good? Bad? Who knows?” It's about a farmer whose horse runs away, then returns accompanied by more horses next the farmer's son breaks his leg taming one of the horses, but therefore isn't drafted by a passing army. In the hospital, Joy shows up-the person, not the feeling.Soon a surgeon puts his leg more or less back together. He's taken into an ambulance, remembering his teacher's words about how he'd be severely tested.