Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 1
This tube asks about peace of mind. Not fortune or misfortune — just when the thing in your chest can be put down.
Mahavira Hall · Lot 1Excellent
心安定处即莲台万虑抛时福自来佛前三拜无他事一炷清香一释怀
What it means: A settled mind is home. Things ease from there.
The verse is kept in Chinese. It is a four-line regulated poem — rhyme and metre are part of the thing itself, and they do not survive translation. The reading below is written in English.
The reading
Once the mind settles, everything else follows. Set aside a quarter of an hour a day to think about nothing and slow the breath. In three weeks you will feel lighter.
This lot gives no answer. It only suggests you eat properly and sleep first.
How to read this grade
Excellent is the highest of the four bands, and the rarest. It means the timing, the people around you and your own frame of mind all line up. It does not guarantee an outcome — it says this road has little resistance and is worth walking to the end.
All eighty lots are lines written for Hanlu Temple. They are here to help you put a question into words — no promise, and no medical, financial or legal advice.
Draw this lot in the hall
Walk to the Mahavira Hall, sit down on a cushion and put your palms together. The tube of lots stands by the altar. A lot you drew in the same hall on the same day is remembered, so you can come back and read it again.