Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 4
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 4Fair
心如乱絮风吹絮且莫强寻一个是一日三餐吃好饭眠来安枕即修行
What it means: Eat and sleep first. The rest can wait.
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
Do not decide anything while the mind is scattered. Eat, sleep, tidy the room. Once the body is settled the mind has somewhere to land.
This lot gives no answer. It only suggests you eat properly and sleep first.
How to read this grade
Fair is not a bad lot. It means even — no great tailwind, no wall. This band most often lands on doing the thing in front of you well and not changing roads yet.
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.