Yan Kan was worried. ‘If I don’t catch this bird soon the Emperor will carve me into meat for his dogs,’ he complained to his friend, Cai Tok.
‘Yes, thanks to your impulsive outburst about being able to bring him one with no difficulty at all. What demon possessed you to suggest that a mate for his pet heron would bring him great luck?’
‘Because I thought it would be a good way for quick advancement,’ answered Yan. ‘Please help me. Receiving the Emperor’s reward for bringing peace to his dynasty will mean high rank to us both and everything that goes with it.’
It had been some time before when the Emperor had discovered an injured heron in his garden. After it had been nurtured back to health, he had kept it caged, refusing to free it with the argument, ‘Herons are omens and now that I have protected it, it in turn will protect me from the ill luck that continually haunts me.’
The rest of this story is in Chapter 3 Volume I of The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu and well worth the esoteric read I promise you.
One of the teachings according to Yen Tzu is that "Letting go in the knowledge that you will receive is infinitely more powerful than holding on in the hope you may receive, as it places your energy in harmony with the order of the way things work."
I like this idea that you relax and the things that you want will come to you. I am definitely going to give it a try since struggling to get what you want in life is exhausting and depressingly slow. So on that note I shall go and positively chill out for the rest of the day.
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