Guan Di lot 37 of 100
Incense and an honest account
Middling (中平, 丁庚). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 丁庚 is from manekineko.com.tw.
焚香來告復何辭
善惡平分汝自知
屏卻昧公心裏事
出門無礙是通時
Lighting incense and coming to report, what more is there to say?
Good and bad are evenly weighed, and you know it yourself.
Put aside what is hidden in your heart that does not serve the public good.
Then you can go out with nothing blocking you, and it is a clear time.
What this lot says
This is a lot about conscience. The verse says you already know the balance of your own actions and asks you to set aside what you know is crooked.
It promises only a clear path as the result of an honest account. If you have been avoiding a hard truth, this is a lot for facing it.
A lot is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
The story behind it
Shao Yaofu burns incense (邵堯夫祝香)
According to the account on Wikisource, Shao Yong of the Song dynasty was a scholar of the Book of Changes and astronomy who, when he lit incense, prayed for the country and for his parents and never for himself.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/37, the 故事及記載 section
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author. We read it from two named web transcriptions, Chinese Wikisource (the base text) and manekineko.com.tw. Neither is a scan of a printing, the edition behind them is mixed, and we could not establish whether the two are independent of each other.
Wikisource (關聖帝君靈籤) (the text shown above)
焚香來告復何辭 / 善惡平分汝自知 / 屏卻昧公心裏事 / 出門無礙是通時
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manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
焚香來告復何辭 / 善惡平分汝自知 / 屏卻昧公心裏事 / 出門無礙是通時
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.