No. 48
Small fortune
見禄隔前渓
労心休更迷
一朝逢好渡
鸞鳳入雲来
In English
- You see your reward beyond the stream
- stop wearing yourself out with doubt
- one morning you will find a good crossing
- and phoenixes will come in through the clouds
- Meaning
- The key image is the good crossing in the third line. The reward is already in sight across the stream, and Small fortune here suggests that once you stop fretting, a way over turns up one morning on its own.
- What to do today
- Write down one thing you are torn about, and set a later day to decide.
- A word from the capybara
- Crossing a stream is easy for a decent swimmer.
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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