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A Recipe for Immortality

April 1, 2008 on 12:59 pm | In Snippets |

“Immortality”

A stranger informed the Prince of Yen that he could make him immortal and the Prince one of his orderly to learn this art; but before the man could do so the stranger died. Then the prince, in great anger, executed his subject.

He failed to see that the stranger was cheating him, but taken in by his lies had an innocent citizen killed. This shows what a fool he was! For a man values nothing more than his own life, yet this fellow could not even keep himself alive, so what could he do for the prince? Why Tseng Shen killed the Pig?

One day, when Tseng Shen’s wife was going to the market, their son cried and wanted to go with her.

She wheedled him, “When I get home we’ll kill the pig for you.”

Upon her return, she found Tseng Shen about to kill the pig. She hastily stopped him.

“I didn’t really mean it,” she protested. ” I just said that to keep the boy quiet. “

“How can you deceive a child like that?” asked Tseng Shen. Children know nothing to begin with, but they copy their parents and learn from them. When you cheat the boy, you are teaching him to lie. If a mother deceives her child, he will not trust her, and that is no way to bring him up.

So he killed the pig after all.