Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Medicine King Hall — Lot 5
This tube asks about health. Think of the person you are worried about. Say their name.
Medicine King Hall · Lot 5Fair
心病还须心药医万般放下莫攒眉青山不老人常在烦恼抛开水自流
What it means: Loosen the knot and a third of it goes.
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
Discomfort like this usually starts in the mind. Say the thing you have been holding to someone, put down what you cannot settle, and once the breath runs free the body follows.
A lot is not a diagnosis. For the body, listen to a doctor.
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 Medicine King 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.