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FIGHTING THE RAT - Harnessing Conscience Power

What a terrible dream I experienced last night!’howled Gate-Keeper Yin to his wife. ‘A giant rat would not desist from chasing after me until, finally, with no place to turn, it had me cornered.’
‘Heaven protect us against such things! What did you do?’his spouse enquired earnestly.
‘What could I do but attack it,’ Yin continued. ‘And I fought hard let me tell you, but in the end I was sorely wounded. But then a very strange thing happened. Just as I lay in a defeated crumpled heap of humiliation, expecting the final mortal blow,the rat spoke to me. It said: “You win,” and immediately helped me up, which is when I awoke. What awful misfortune can it possibly foretell?’
‘My old mother was wise,’ answered his wife seemingly calmer in her remembrance of something. ‘She would say: 'When you have a fight with your conscience and get beaten, you win! Maybe that rat was your conscience and you’ve gone and
cornered yourself.’

This was taken from Lesson 8 in Volume II of The Teachings of Billionaire yen Tzu - if you want to read the rest of the story.

Yen Tzu goes on to say ...Conscience is that part of our consciousness that is vital to our development and growth. However, there is conscience and true-conscience. The former is subjective, the latter objective. We often think the function of our subjective, or conditioned, conscience, is to spoil life for those of us who are unlucky enough to be pricked by it. It could be said that, ‘your conscience doesn’t keep you from doing anything; it merely keeps you from enjoying it.’ In this guise it can be likened to an irritating acquaintance that you have periodically to tolerate. All too often we construct an entire framework of intelligent rationa-lies-ations in our attempts to justify actions that contradict our deepest sense of right and wrong.


I love this esoteric thought-provoking material. It sets me up for the day. Yen Tzu's book is timeless and wherever you open it I find words of wisdom to inspire me for that day. Has anyone else read any of his teachings?

KNOWING THE EAGLE - Realising Desires; Needing Nothing

Hermit Wei glimpsed three eagles soaring above him. Calling them down to him he requested of the first: ‘How much to carry me across the plains to the neighbouring state, please?’
‘It’s a two day flight at least and you are a heavy load,’ replied the first eagle, ‘I would like ten fish, a goat and a flagon of soya milk.’
‘So much,’ said Hermit Wei, and turning to the second eagle
asked, ‘What will you do it for?’
‘It is right you are a heavy load,’ answered the second eagle, ‘yet as I am due to go in that direction in any case, I would want five fish, a kid-goat and a flagon of rice-water. It is along trip that will require sustenance.’
Asking the third eagle what the charge would be, the hermit was surprised to hear: ‘Five fish and a litre of water.’
‘What kind of fool answer is that?’ Wei shouted. ‘Why do you possibly ask for an amount that will not even sustain you for the trip?’
‘I needed the order,’ said the crestfallen eagle.
‘Needed the order!’ the hermit returned angrily. ‘Well my desire to go will not be at the mercy of your need. In compromising your worth you compromise my life!
Come,’ speaking to the second eagle, ‘let us plan our trip. With your desire to go my way and your considered charge, I know my journey is assured.’

There are more parables like this in The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu Volume II Lesson One.

In the words of Yen Tzu - 'Healthy desire is the starting point of all achievement. The desire to live, for instance, is the unconscious motivation to take our first breath of life. There are,
however, polarities to our desires, so that, depending on how much we want something, we can unwittingly bring about adverse conditions. A simple illustration of this can be seen by an
ambitious individual, who desiring to impress others, brings about the opposite effect.'

This makes so much sense to me - sometimes we want something so much that we overlook the obvious. We make compromises just to get what we want and then end up begrudging the people that take us up on our promises.

Freeing the Bear

Growing Strong Relationships - this is something we all want to do. it is what life is all about and the secret to success on both personal and business levels. Yen Tzu tells amazing stories...

Kung was alarmed to hear the husky growl that awoke him. Even with the shortcut he had taken to C’hu it was an arduous five-day journey, so that when he found a tranquil spot in which to camp he had fallen asleep almost immediately. ‘By the gods!’ he exclaimed, ‘what devil is that?’ as the angry roar continued. Adrenaline soothed his immediate panic as he braved himself to investigate further. It seemed that the roar was not approaching; rather it was changing to one of a crying roar. His search led him to a clearing where he saw an enormous bear caught in a vicious bamboo trap.

More of this in The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu Volume I.