No. 85
Great fortune
望用何愁晩
求名漸得寧
雲梯終有望
帰路入蓬瀛
In English
- Why grieve that your hopes come late?
- seeking a name, you slowly find peace
- the ladder to the clouds holds promise at last
- and the road home leads to the isles of immortals
- Meaning
- Great fortune, though on a slow clock: hopes arrive late, and the poem asks why anyone would grieve over that. The ladder to the clouds holds promise in the end and the road home leads to the isles of the immortals, so patience costs nothing here.
- What to do today
- Give yourself credit for keeping at a slow task, then take the next step.
- A word from the capybara
- Ambling along at an easy pace, paradise somehow appeared ahead.
What 'Great fortune' means (glossary)
The explanations added by each temple differ. The poems and fortunes follow an Edo-period printed edition.
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