Guan Yin lot 84 of 100
Asleep under the pines
Lowest (下下). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
因名喪德不和同
切忌忙中變作凶
醉後不知何處去
青松影裡睡矇矓
Reputation costs you virtue, and harmony breaks.
Beware, for haste can turn the matter bad.
Drunk, you do not know where you have wandered,
And doze in the shadow of green pines.
What this lot says
Someone has chased a name, fallen out with others, and then drifted into a drunken sleep under the trees. The pines give shade, and the sleeper has no idea where they are.
The verse gives one clear caution, which is to slow down. Trouble here comes from hurry and from wanting credit. Both can be changed.
If a dispute over credit at work or at home has soured, stop acting for a while. Avoid reacting in the heat of the moment, clear your head, and work out where you stand before you speak to the other person.
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
Zhuangzi tests his wife (莊子試妻)
A tale of Zhuangzi drumming on a basin appears as fiction in Stories to Caution the World, the vernacular collection compiled by Feng Menglong. Its legend of a husband testing his wife sits close to this lot's warning about discord.
Source: Wikipedia (zh), 警世通言
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)
因名喪德不和同 / 切忌忙中變作凶 / 醉後不知何處去 / 青松影裡睡矇矓
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
因名喪德不和同 / 切忌忙中變作凶 / 醉後不知何處去 / 青松影裡睡矇矓
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
因名喪德不和同 / 切忌忙中變作兇 / 醉後不知何處去 / 青松影裡睡朦胧
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2 reads 切忌忙中變作兇 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 4 reads 青松影裡睡朦胧 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.