Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 6
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 6Fair
求佛不如先求己渡人还须自渡时但行好事莫多问前路光明佛自知
What it means: Do the good thing. Skip the forecast.
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
Asking for help is less useful than helping yourself. Do the small part you can do and do not demand the result yet. Keep at it and the road lights up.
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.