No. 71
Misfortune
道業未成時
何期両不宜
事煩心緒乱
翻作意徘徊
In English
- While your path of practice is not yet complete
- who would expect both sides to go wrong?
- affairs grow tangled and the mind is unsettled
- and instead your thoughts wander back and forth
- Meaning
- The word that matters is wandering in the last line, a mind pacing back and forth. With your practice still unfinished and affairs tangled on both sides, narrowing your focus looks like the way to stop the pacing.
- What to do today
- List what needs doing, and choose only the top item for the day.
- A word from the capybara
- When torn between choices, closing the eyes for a deep breath helps.
What 'Misfortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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