Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 2
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 2Good
蒲团坐到日西斜妄念如尘拂去些莫问前程凶与吉当下清明即是家
What it means: Think less about what is coming. Stay in today.
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
Stop asking about the road ahead and get today right. Eat when you eat, sleep when you sleep, finish the things in front of you one at a time. Clarity is the place you are already standing.
This lot gives no answer. It only suggests you eat properly and sleep first.
How to read this grade
Good sits one step below Excellent: the direction is right, but the work has to be carried with diligence and patience. If the verse talks about keeping, gathering or holding steady, that is the point of the lot.
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.