Extract block of text

Hi

I would like to extract the first block of data in a file. Input
example with 2 blocks:

This is the begining
-------
some text1
some text2
This is the beggining
-------
some text1
some text2

In this example the line count of each "input block" is 4. But the
size can be different. It's dynamic. The blocks are similar.

Is It better to do it with shell, sed or awk?

Thanks

João Rei
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