Guan Yin lot 5 of 100
Digging for a spring
Even (中平). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
一鋤掘地要求泉
努力求之得最先
無意俄然遇知己
相逢攜手上青天
One hoe strikes the ground in search of a spring.
Work hard at it and you are the first to reach it.
Then, without looking, you meet a friend who knows you,
And hand in hand you climb the blue sky.
What this lot says
Someone digs for water with a hoe and, by working hard, gets there first. Then something unplanned happens: a true friend appears, and the two go up together.
The verse joins two kinds of luck. One comes from steady digging. The other comes by surprise, and it tends to find people who are already at work.
If you are building a business or looking for work, keep digging at the plain task in front of you. Stay open to the colleague or partner you did not plan on meeting, and be ready to share the credit when you do.
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
Liu Chen meets the immortals (劉晨遇仙)
Named for this lot in the related Goodfate edition.
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author. No single original edition is known and wording differs between temples, so we compare named witnesses and record where they differ.
Míguāng (覓光) (the text shown above)
一鋤掘地要求泉 / 努力求之得最先 / 無意俄然遇知己 / 相逢攜手上青天
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
一鋤掘地要求泉 / 努力求之得最先 / 無意俄然遇知己 / 相逢攜手上青天
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
一錐草地要求泉 / 努力求之得最難 / 無意俄然遇知己 / 相逢攜手上青天
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 一錐草地要求泉 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 2 reads 努力求之得最難 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.