Guan Yin lot 54 of 100
Treasure found in a dream
Lowest (下下). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
夢中得寶醒來無
應說巫山只是虛
若問婚姻幷病訟
別尋生路得相宜
Treasure found in a dream is gone on waking.
Say of Wu Mountain's tryst that it was empty air.
If you ask of marriage, illness or a lawsuit,
Look for another way of living, and that will suit you.
What this lot says
A person wakes with empty hands, and the treasure was never there. Wu Mountain is where an old king dreamed of a goddess, so the verse covers love as well as money.
This is a plain lot. It asks you to separate what you have from what you have pictured, and then to look for another route.
If an offer or a romance lives mostly in your hopes, ask what exists today in writing or in words spoken to you. The verse names marriage, illness and lawsuits, yet it foretells none of them. For those, rely on the people qualified to help and look at your options.
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
Ma Chao chases Cao Cao (馬超追曹)
At Tong Pass in 211, Ma Chao's arrows nearly trapped Cao Cao at a river crossing, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has him chase Cao Cao from the field. Cao Cao got away and won the campaign, so the prize slipped from Ma Chao's hands as treasure slips from a dream.
Source: Wikipedia, Battle of Tong Pass (211)
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)
夢中得寶醒來無 / 應說巫山只是虛 / 若問婚姻幷病訟 / 別尋生路得相宜
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
夢中得寶醒來無 / 應說巫山只是虛 / 若問婚姻幷病訟 / 別尋生路相得宜
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
夢中得寶醒來無 / 自謂南山隻是鋤 / 若問婚姻并問病 / 别尋修路為相扶
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Where the sources differ
- Line 4 reads 別尋生路得相宜 in Míguāng and 別尋生路相得宜 in Jiěqiān Gé.
- Line 2 reads 自謂南山隻是鋤 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 3 reads 若問婚姻并問病 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 4 reads 别尋修路為相扶 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.