Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 3
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 3Good
念珠一百零八颗数到心空万念和烦恼原从心上起心若不动奈我何
What it means: Trouble is something you wind up yourself. Stillness unwinds it.
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
The knot is one you have been winding, turn by turn. Count breaths, walk, wash a bowl — put the mind on one thing and the thoughts thin out.
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.