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Gu Gong Yi Shan — The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains
“Gūkō isan” (愚公移山) is a saying that no matter how difficult a thing may be, if you keep up steady, patient effort, you will eventually and certainly accomplish it.
Do you know what “Gūkō isan” really means? Steady effort creates the future! Steady effort is the trick to winning!
The world is full of phrases like “one big reversal” and “secret shortcuts.” But what actually moves a life isn’t that kind of flashy trick.
There’s an old Chinese saying, “gūkō isan.” It carries an incredibly deep message.
Put simply, it means “no matter how difficult a thing may be, if you keep up steady, patient effort, you will eventually and certainly accomplish it.”
Today, let’s bring the power of “gūkō isan” down into our everyday lives!
The story of the old man who moved a mountain
Long ago there was a ninety-year-old man called Gūkō. Two great mountains rose up in front of his house, so wherever he went he had to take the long way around, and it was terribly inconvenient.
So Gūkō made up his mind. “Right — I’ll cut through these mountains and run a road straight through!”
Everyone around him laughed, of course. “Come on, a ninety-year-old man — with a shovel, no less — there’s no way you can move a mountain!”
But Gūkō answered like this: “Even when I die, I have a son. I have grandchildren. If we keep going generation after generation, the day will come when the mountains are gone.”
A god, moved by the sight of this, finally used divine power to move the mountains for him — that’s how the story goes.
Putting it into our own daily lives…
Doesn’t this apply, exactly as it is, to our businesses and our dreams right now?
“I want to become fluent in English.”
“I want to get the body I’ve always wanted.”
“I want to grow my own business.”
When you think that, it feels as though a “huge mountain” is rising up in front of you. It’s so high that sometimes your legs go weak and you think, “maybe this is beyond me…”
But I want you to remember this. It’s because you try to erase the whole mountain at once that you fall into despair.
For English, learn three words a day.
For losing weight, cut back just a little on carbs at night.
For business, send a message to one person every day.
Just keep moving that “one shovelful of earth,” every single day, without fail. The accumulation of “what did I do today?” will, before you notice, have made the mountain in front of you disappear.
And when people see you saying that and carrying on with it, helpers appear, saying “Me too!”
A small step you can take today
Talent and luck have nothing to do with it. The truly strong one is “the person who doesn’t quit.”
It doesn’t have to be flashy. Plain is fine. Where no one is watching, let’s keep working that shovel, bit by bit.
What will your “one shovelful” move today?
Let’s make today a wonderful step forward!
- Source: the Chinese classic Liezi, “Tangwen” chapter
- Content: A ninety-year-old man, Gūkō, found that the great mountains in front of his house (Mount Taihang and Mount Wangwu) blocked the way, so together with his family he set about breaking them down with picks and moving them elsewhere. A clever man named Chisō laughed at him, saying “such an impossible thing can’t be done,” but Gūkō replied, “Even after we die, if our children and grandchildren and their descendants after them carry it on generation after generation, the mountains will never grow any taller, so one day they will be level,” and he kept working. The Heavenly Emperor (a god), moved by such single-minded devotion, ordered a mighty deity to move the two mountains to another place. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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Translated from the original Japanese post by Takumi Yamazaki: https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12979114588.html