Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 5
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 5Fair
执念如藤绕树生越缠越紧越难挣不如撒手随它去天地原来这样宽
What it means: Loosen the grip and the world gets wider.
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 tighter you hold it the more it hurts. Try letting go once and see whether the sky falls. It mostly does not — it opens.
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.