Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mahavira Hall — Lot 8
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 8Good
暮鼓晨钟日日同平常岁月最从容不求闻达不求显安安静静自从容
What it means: Ordinary is the blessing. Keep it steady.
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
Ordinary days are what nourish you. Eat and sleep on schedule, do not compare yourself to others, do not fight yourself. Steadiness is the good life.
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.