Guan Yin lot 77 of 100
A dream inside a dream
Below even (中下). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
夢中說夢獲多財
身外浮名總莫猜
水遠山遙難信定
貴人一指笑顏開
Inside a dream you tell a dream of riches won.
Fame floats outside you; do not try to guess at it.
The waters are wide, the hills far, and nothing can be sure.
A noble friend points the way, and your face lights up.
What this lot says
Someone is describing a fortune, and both the fortune and the telling happen inside a dream. The verse treats easy wealth and outside reputation as things you cannot measure from where you stand, and the distance in the third line says news is slow and unreliable.
The change comes from a person. Someone who knows the ground points out the way, and worry lifts.
If you are weighing an offer that sounds large but has no paperwork, keep your plans modest and find one informed person with nothing to gain to check it before you commit.
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
Returning the jade intact to Zhao (完璧歸趙)
Lin Xiangru, an envoy of the state of Zhao, carried the He Shi Bi jade to Qin, tricked the king into handing it back when no cities were offered in exchange, and sent it home in secret. The story suits a lot that warns against counting on a promised fortune.
Source: Wikipedia, Lin Xiangru
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)
夢中說夢獲多財 / 身外浮名總莫猜 / 水遠山遙難信定 / 貴人一指笑顏開
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
夢中說夢獲多財 / 身外浮名總莫猜 / 永遠山遙難信定 / 貴人一指笑顏開
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
夢中說夢獲多財 / 身外浮名總莫猜 / 水遠山遙難信定 / 貴人一指笑顔開
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Where the sources differ
- Line 3 reads 水遠山遙難信定 in Míguāng and 永遠山遙難信定 in Jiěqiān Gé.
- Line 4 reads 貴人一指笑顔開 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.