No. 14
Future fortune
石玉未分時
憂心転更悲
前途通大道
華発応残枝
In English
- While stone and jade are not yet told apart
- a worried heart turns ever more sorrowful
- yet the road ahead opens onto a wide way
- and flowers bloom on the remaining branches
- Meaning
- A Future fortune poem in the plainest sense: it opens with the gloom of not being able to tell stone from jade, then finds a broad road ahead. Even the leftover branches flower in time, so waiting without hurry is likely to pay off later.
- What to do today
- Split one decision you are unsure about into its good points and its worries on paper.
- A word from the capybara
- Stone or jade, nobody knows until it is polished, so no need to fret.
What 'Future fortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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