Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mazu Hall — Lot 8
This tube asks about safety. Think of the person travelling, and the road they are on.
Mazu Hall · Lot 8Good
殿前明灯点一盏照彻归途夜不寒家中老小皆安泰挂心之事渐平安
What it means: The household is safe. What worried you eases.
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
What you have been carrying about home loosens by degrees; the old and the young are both well. Light a lamp, do your part, and leave the rest to time.
Mazu's lots usually land on the road: slower, steadier.
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 Mazu 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.